Specially Planned Housing for Olim Chinese Jewish Communities Now Extinct Encyclopedia Judaica hai; about 1,000 of them be- (1917, longed to various European states. On the eve of the Pacific nationalities and 750 were early refugees from Nazism; War, a total of 25,000 to some 500 came from Russia; 30,000 Jews were living in some 400 were British sub- China, including Manchuria. jects, mostly from India and Some of them, victims of Iraq; and some 50 were Hitlerism, found a precarious Americans. Tientsin also had shelter in Japanese-occupied a population of about 2,000, Shanghai between 1938 and half of whom were of Rus- 1941, later enlarged by Jew- sian origin. The Russian- ish communities deported Jewish population of Harbin from Japan. After the end amounted to some 5,000 of World War II, the Jews people. Most of the Russian in China were given an op- Jews were refugees from portunity to proceed to other the Russian revolution of parts of the world. Russian Jews were urged by the So- viet authorities to return to Jewish Students the Soviet Union, and prac- tically all the Jews from at Georgia U. Get Manchuria had to follow this Holiday Excuse invitation as Manchuria was ATLANTA (JTA) — Offi- cut off from the rest of the cials of the University of country by civil war. A few Georgia at Athens have an- elderly Jews without families nounced that special arrange- were allowed to live out their ments have been made for days in Shanghai. the estimated several hundred Neither the Chinese Jewish students affected by People's Republic nor the the scheduling or registration Nationalist Chinese govern- and the first day of classes ment have any diplomatic on the first two days of Rosh relations with Israel. Hashana. University officials inform- ed the regional office of the Mass Communication Anti - Defamation Le ague, in Adult Study Aired which reported the conflict to JERUSALEM —A day-long the university and asked for seminar on mass communi- special arrangements for the cations as a means for en- Jewish students, that the ar- hancing adult education was rangements had been made. held at the Hebrew Univer- Stuart Lewengrub, regional sity's Martin Buber Adult ADL directOr, said he had Education Center on Mount been informed that the uni- Scopus in cooperation with versity has a system of pre- the university's division for registration available to all communications media in students, that Jewish students education. Participating were may register on a different 40 educators and media ex- date, if they have not or can- perts. not pre-register, and that stu- dents who miss the first day of classes because of the High Holy Days will be ex- cused and a notice sent to the faculty. THE DETROIT JEWISH HEWS 22—Friday, August 2, 1974 There are virtually no Jews living in mainland China to- day. Jews, however, had visit- ed China as long ago as the 8th Century. They probably arrived by caravan from or via Persia across Central Asia. Some arrived by sea along the Muslim trade route to the southern Chinese port of Canton. There, during a rebellion in 878-79, some 120,000 Mus- lims, Jews and other foreign- ers were massacred. It seems that the stay of Jews in Chinese territory at that time was only temporary. A cohesive group of Jews, some 1,000, settled in the 9th or 10th Century at the invitation of the emperor in Kaifeng. They spoke new Persian and came from either India or Persia. Some 250 of their descendants whose Jew- ishness has been lost through intermarriage are still living in Kaifeng, states the Ency- clopedia Judaica. Marco Polo, who visited China toward the end of the 13th Century, reported that Jews, Muslims, and Christians were disputing their respec- tive religions before the Mon- gol conqueror and his court. Three decrees issued in China under Mongol rule indicate that the number of Jews must have been sizeable. No new Jewish communities were formed in China until the middle of the 19th Century. With the cession of Hong Kong to Great Britain and the establishment of foreign concessions in Shanghai, Tientsin and other cities, substantial settlement of Jews began. By 1937, about 10,000 Jews were living in China. Some 2,000 lived in Shang- Flowers For Every Occasion ... Or An Occasional Flower Call Fern Kumove . Manager Phil Henshaw Designer/Decorator from New York Jerry Mickowski Birmingham's leading florist DETROIT'S MOST CREATIVE TRIO • WEDDINGS • BAR MITZVAS • SHOWERS • PARTIES CALL ANY DAY — ANYTIME! MI 6-7272 German-Jewish Editor Retires BONN — Herman Lewy, who had been chief editor of t h e Allgemeine Judische Wochenzeitung, since 1964 and was co-publisher from 1970 to 1972, has retired. The new chief editor is Friedrich Uttitz, who joined the edi- torial staff last year. Lewy spoke in a newspaper interview about the tradi- tions of the Jewish press in Germany which was founded in Berlin by Moses Mendel- sohn in 1750. According to Lewy, there were 65 Jewish newspapers and periodicals up to 1933, with a total circulation of more than 1,000,000. The newspapers, which ranged from "extreme right to ex- treme left", appeared in Yid- dish or Hebrew. Immediately after the de- cline of national socialism a new Jewish newspaper "Der Weg" appeared in Berlin in 1946. This later merged with the Allgemeine Judische Wochen- zeitung, which today has a circulation of 35,000, and is read in 51 countries. A news sheet is published quarterly for the 600 Jews living in the German Demo- cratic Republic (in the Fed- eral Republic there a r e 27,000). Money is never a problem —as long as you don't have it. NEW YORK—A new hous- ing project to accommodate more than 1,000 families who have made aliya, is un- der construction in the Ju- dean Hills near Bet Shemesh, Israel. The project, planned by the Young Israel Aliya Hous- ing and Development Corp. under the sponsorship of the Midwest Council of Young Israel, will group ohm from similar backgrounds and in- terests. Project director, Daniel J. Frucher said that "by offer- Youth to Help Poor Rebuild, Fix Homes NEW YORK (JTA) — A total of 40 Jewish junior and senior high school students from five states — 22 girls and 18 boys, are at work at three sites in the 1974 sum- mer work camp program of the American Jewish Society for Service. Most of the workers are from the New York Metro- politan area and from cul- turally advantaged homes who have volunteered in pro- grams to raise the standard of living of people in de- pressed areas. According to Henry Kohn, AJSS chairman, the volun- teers will build and rehabili- tate homes in Washington and Alabama and will build a rural crafts shop in Or- land, Maine. The other two areas are in Tacoma, Wash., and Auburn, Ala. ing a life-style that closely resembles t h e standards Americans have come to ap- preciate and expect, the Bet Shemesh Project looks toward alleviating some of the major difficulties pro- spective olim encounter." He said the project is aimed at minimizing the- frustration, inconvenience and hardships which new olim face. Although the project is imitative of American sub- urban living, residents will be near enough to the con- veniences of the big cities, but far enoough away to avoid the congestion and other problems of urban cen- ters. 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