{"id":1705,"date":"2010-10-27T17:56:49","date_gmt":"2010-10-27T21:56:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kulanuarchive.kulanu.org\/?p=1705"},"modified":"2019-04-08T10:53:45","modified_gmt":"2019-04-08T14:53:45","slug":"the-lost-jews-of-kaifeng","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kulanu.org\/archive\/the-lost-jews-of-kaifeng\/","title":{"rendered":"The Lost Jews of Kaifeng"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1><span id=\"ctl00_ContentPlaceHolder1_article_control_lblArticleTitle\">The Lost Jews of Kaifeng<\/span><\/h1>\n<p><span id=\"ctl00_ContentPlaceHolder1_article_control_lblAuthor\">By\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:jpostcolumns@gmail.com\">ZIV HELLMAN<\/a><\/span>\u00a0*\u00a0<span id=\"ctl00_ContentPlaceHolder1_article_control_lblDateAndHour\">10\/17\/2010 *\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jpost.com\/JerusalemReport\/Article.aspx?id=191556\">http:\/\/www.jpost.com\/JerusalemReport\/Article.aspx?id=191556<\/a><\/p>\n<p><span id=\"ctl00_ContentPlaceHolder1_article_control_lblArticleBody\">\u201cWELCOME TO Kaifeng, and thanks for coming all the way here,\u201d says Tzur. Charming, with a warm smile, Tzur is an experienced licensed tour guide running the Jewish China Tours Company, which, as the name implies, specializes in Jewish heritage trips through China. He is fluent in Hebrew and English, and is a walking trove of historical knowledge on China\u2019s Jews.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>But Tzur is not a transplanted Israeli or American who came for a visit to China and happened to have stayed. Tzur is the Hebrew name he adopted nearly a decade ago in Israel; he is more commonly known by the name he was born with, Shi Lei. His surname, Shi, means \u201cstone\u201d in Chinese, which is why he translated it to \u201cTzur\u201d in Hebrew. And not only is he a native of Kaifeng, a city of over four million in China\u2019s Henan province, he is a scion of the family that was among the leaders of the ancient Jewish community of Kaifeng.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jpost.com\/JerusalemReport\/Article.aspx?id=191556\">more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Lost Jews of Kaifeng By\u00a0ZIV HELLMAN\u00a0*\u00a010\/17\/2010 *\u00a0http:\/\/www.jpost.com\/JerusalemReport\/Article.aspx?id=191556 \u201cWELCOME TO Kaifeng, and thanks for coming all the way here,\u201d says <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v18.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>The Lost Jews of Kaifeng - Kulanu<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The Lost Jews of Kaifeng By\u00a0ZIV HELLMAN\u00a0*\u00a010\/17\/2010 *\u00a0http:\/\/www.jpost.com\/JerusalemReport\/Article.aspx?id=191556 \u201cWELCOME TO Kaifeng, and thanks for\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/kulanu.org\/archive\/the-lost-jews-of-kaifeng\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"The Lost Jews of Kaifeng - 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