| Show long lost jews may be sought china colonies have been isolated for more than a thousand years new york if a movement now on foot a 1 among wealthy jews jew I 1 in uhlna backed by influential support to lin the united ant states 18 14 successful minutes colonies 1 la C claim in that he haie been virtually cut 0 off if from it the west fr era rn world for more than g tho sand brats Z rg will again be brought I 1 in touch h with the main body of their eel race au T the n a TIT efforts a nn now being made are the latest of several extending over ever a period of more than the thre equart quarters era of A rental centeny F th ahe present hope hop of ff sum sue mas net a on an 4 an 1 11 knowledge ledge of the history and ad its traditions ationo of tile C hi mes J jews better bell organization aad more mom adequate financial bucking backing facts fort which have been gradually coming to light reveal an a amazing mory of ad adall 1 ealo a of these exiles clinging t to their ancient rite and ad practices practice through gowe genera rations tlona in the ve very ry heart of chinese civilization the th present revall Is 11 due 1 in large part to adolph SOLO 8 oko lill librarian of the tha hebrew union colle college go of ca cincinnati ne n nati who ise recently ily brought bt f from r europe top a collection of 0 59 50 su ones into contain ing hymns proven atad rituals ritual showing he thal conclusively the a connection amilon b between the jena of an ancient car and ad oca medie TO val ch china in a and those of toe the western ta arl world it these them manuscripts written on sm pa tier gle folded into at the to efm of few tans are partly in ch chinese nose and partly in on an an but jewish jueal perot persian dialect indicating that they were originally composed by emigrants from the long established hebrew settlements see linneas 1 la persia ae ac fording to a writer I 1 la the american chebret the ahry constitute a all the roan man I 1 into known to have love been britten toy by jews jewa SIT living ing in china they were collected during the middle of the lost last by initial missionaries its sent to china chi by an english melet soc leti which to couve convert their owners to christ christianity in silly origin of batt settlement I 1 small t 9 in do doubt bt th the evi of the jan jewish I 1 all settle ments in china aa well it as I 1 their probable a date is a matter of doubt unions scholars 01 one theory sit ce eluned adia aced 1 is ill that a part ot of tile the jewish people who were carried into captivity in baby babylon in the seventh century B C gradually wade roade their way eay eastward instead laid ot retaining fetui nang to jerusalem when he the city waa restated toted to them ty by cyr U king of persia in n the he sixth ventury t rr B C th there 1 la fit 1 or at sh no air direct a t evidence to back this up at al though in the writings tInga of isaiah there is a reference to the lend of slow which 1 Is thought by some old tests testa me I 1 commentators commentator to mean chinn china if t this sap supposition position were correct it would indicate that the be jew jew a ba far back as the 11 clien eighth century fair B H 0 know knew about be ut I 1 lh the e chinese another theory 1 ts that the jews jew maile ad their r way 1 in conah conal lerable man here bers to china after the destruction of jarob pin by the emperor titus in 11 TO A D it la 19 known that ter very early to the christian am jew warly were living at only in persia but in india din the best beat testimony on the he subject b however ow 1 1 Is but ot of ill the end emigrants grams themselves thema a el e they believe according to I 1 their heir fredle medieval I writings and inscriptions hat bat they settled rallied in china about the third century of 0 the present era an tula this ecord accords with other sel evidence dence T which MISS historians consider trustworthy the weight of this evl euldene dene seems seem to show that the jews jewa worked anted their theil sometime timm way efty eastward some sometimes atwil under e r pre sure of religious religion and ad racial tiona time such rich na as took place in persia as car early BB 6 the pint century and m sometimes elew in tile the role rate of a traders seeking n new in markets ark ata the romans called the chinese are b by 4 no name vi meaning caning silk ilk men ince ou and d th the jews jew of persia perot and ad perhaps also of the roman barren empire were ellk me merchants it at a very early IF date it is thought probable that t they solicited followed the is caravans rame through co on tim asia AM or went at b by y aea to india b and ad thence made shift way into to th the sills olk producing re regions ims of chia china mom marco poap aa fd found alu them for a it time these wanderers wanderer ably kept in with members of their race in the western world then as a the occidental jew jens a became seat scat hered and tile the ancient trade routes rote fell into partial disuse they were cut off and forgotten they were vare not again gat brought to the attention of the ott dent t BO f far r as la a until it me marco n a and polo a found d and mentioned them in hla his famous t travels th H toward the end of it alie thirteenth century polo said that tile the tart tartar emperor pr p r kubla kohl khan a model of religious lot tolerance eisuke hon han ored led the be mill religious I 1 tf not d a only ban buty of the be zat ada and bud lots but also of the christ christians falls and t the jews mall making no an distinction among hm them tb this Is held to show that the J jews roust must have been fairly numerous and highly esteemed er A chinese chines ln letlon of the yeat year 1459 bears bean out tills this 01 conclusion they ge es excel is in agriculture in nn an rc bandise dee 1 in magistracies magist and in warfare and oil are a highly esteemed to for integ integrity r fidelity and a strict abs observance me to ot their r re ligion A achl chinese se T dilall lOttor of 0 the same date data sas built our religion came originally from tien or it 1 if bellid believed by modern scholars india this Is 14 thought to refer to a renewed migration of jews from india which may have taken place about the tenth century the ancient chinese Il laces name for these new newcomers wits was 1 bao I too hill alu risen which refers to a detail of at the traditional hebrew manner of preparing meet meat for or hainon ti atoa there am to have been a number of chinese jewish but the most important of these them we was the one are at kul kal paris fung fu fit in lie he province of honan here they not only sor worked lind I 1 BS farmers there merchants hards and Oc occasion easlon ally 11 as aa bankers but mam craid particular kind ot at olk bilk f fabric abrie that wa well H known lo in that pe part rt of C china with chia chinese rot a long time the jews jew of kul kal fung fu citing to their air religious sad and m raft custom aim 9 tenaciously though although the they adopted the queue and the he ild chinese i y e method of dress dres end it Sa matie hit intermarried Inter e r inserted married with till the chinese they built a famous temple of which at acau rate to descriptions have base been pe preserved served and whose hose ruins rains way may be restored it if the tha present campaign succeeds succeed this building according to the records was we a ch characteristic mixture of the hebraic ethnic and sid the chinese the chinese enio showed itself 1 in many man other way vu tor last instance a sanete in ancestor worship nhip the chinese writers writer however were font fd f of pointing out that the jewish religion sig I 1 on v na as not at all at v var a lance with confucianism perhaps this was use mere a ly the polite oriental a of mini mizing religious difference anong 9 ills subjects object of 1 the empire pi all the next di distinct athill select to in the chinese ul jewa jew after the alcomo given by marco polo was waa that mod by the jesuit missionaries in the seventeenth century tile jews nad had hy by th aba time tell lost all trace of their origin although h they suit st 11 adhered to the costoma ito and ad observances handed banded down from father t to I 1 son tor far many any genera 11 ona one of them h bearing our ing that the jesuits tau taught ht belief in a single ing deity came to the jesuit father in the be ba lief fief that both were members of at the same faith the jesuit missionaries and ad later inter those of the protestant Protea tant faith attempted to cort confer l the tha chhue jews jew to christianity but apparently without suc fuccell cell whether the chi chinese colonl fB if 11 they ran can still be called that can be ba rehabilitated 1 Is a que question of deep 1 in eel to the numerous TO member ember of their race face all over the world |
