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Synagogue in K’ai-fêng (Kaifeng, China)
Jean Domenge
1722
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Jean Domenge was a French Jesuit priest. Fluent in Hebrew and Mandarin, he spent the years from 1698 until his death in China as a missionary, with a special interest in Kaifeng’s Jewish community.
Israelites in Assyrian Exile (last third of eighth century BCE):
Ahiyau, an “archer,” Nineveh
Hoshea, a slave, Nineveh (680 BCE)
Neriyau, “chief of accounts,” Gozan
Paqaha (Pekah), an estate manager…
Dialoghi di m. Magino Gabrielli Hebreo, sopra l’utile sue inventioni circa la seta (Dialogues of Magino Gabrielli, Hebrew, On the Utility of His Inventions in Silk Production), printed in Rome, is a…
Open a map, stretch out your index finger, run it along the winding contours of the Plata River, and you will come to a small black dot that does and does not seem like the…