The Haggadah of the Kaifeng Jews of China

Erscheinungsjahr 2011
ISBN: 978-90-04-20809-4
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 32, 232 Seiten, Format (B × H): 165 mm x 246 mm, Gewicht: 517 g

Reihe: The Brill Reference Library of Judaism

This comprehensive textual treatment of the Kaifeng Passover Rite is a significant contribution to the ongoing discussion of the Community’s origins in particular and to comparative Jewish liturgy in general. The book includes a facsimile of one manuscript and a sample of the other, the full text of the Hebrew/Aramaic and Judeo-Persian Haggadah in Hebrew characters, as well as an English translation. Following a review of the Community’s history, sources for study and related scholarly work conducted to date, the languages used in the Haggadah and their backgrounds are discussed in detail. Analysis of the order of the service allows for comparison of the Kaifeng Jewish community’s recitation of the Passover liturgy, performance of ritual and consumption of ceremonial food to other communities in the Jewish Diaspora.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Wong, Fook-Kong

Yasharpour, Dalia

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Jüdische Studien Jüdische Studien Heilige & Traditionstexte: Torah, Talmud, Mischna, Halacha
• Geisteswissenschaften Jüdische Studien Jüdische Studien Jüdische Studien: Kult, Riten, Zeremonien

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction
Chapter One: Haggadah Manuscripts of the Kaifeng Jews
Chapter Two: The Community's Knowledge of Hebrew as Reflected in their Haggadah
Chapter Three: Hebrew in the Kaifeng Haggadah
Chapter Four: The Judeo-Persian of KH
Chapter Five: Order of the Service

Über Autor(innen)

Fook-kong Wong, Th.D. (1998) in Hebrew Bible, Harvard Divinity School, is Associate Professor of Old Testament at Hong Kong Baptist Theological Seminary. He has contributed entries in NIDB, EBR and
written numerous articles in Chinese journals and books.

Dalia Yasharpour, Ph.D. (2005), University of California, Los Angeles, is Lecturer of Persian Language and Literature at Harvard University. She is co-author of the Persian textbook, Proficiency in Persian (Persian Language Resources, 2007) and has contributed articles to such publications as EJIW and EHLL.