The Jews of Asia Especially in the Sixteenth And Seventeenth Centuries
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. Relates to them ; for the Bonzas (Priests) of Tatsing, or Judea, and Mu-ha-pa, in all three thousand, are condemned, as well as the other Bonzas, to return to a secular life ". This incident is mentioned in Du Halde's history of China, but very little information on the whole respecting the Jews in China at this period has been forthcoming. 1 Histoire de I' Academic des Inscriptions et Belles Lettres depuis son tablissement avec les Memoires de Litt&rature, tirez des registres de cette Academ...ic depuis son renouvellement, xlviii, 763 et seq. 1808. 2 Jost, Geschichte der Israeliten, vol. Viii. 135 The Jews of Asia Their existence was unknown in Europe, and even the ubiquitous Benjamin of Tudela does not seem to have penetrated as far as the flowery land. There is, however, an Account Written by Two Mohammedan Travellers through India and China, in 851, which mentions the Jews, but the information afforded is not very extensive. All we are told, is that " The Jews have been settled in that empire (China) from time immemorial ", and we further learn, that at the period of the visit, " many of them for the sake of riches, and preferment, have abjured their own religion ", a statement confirmed by other writers.
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