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Jews among Muslims in Precolonial Times: An Introductory Survey

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An American Jewish soldier was in China during the Second World War. He walked into a building one Saturday. Lo and behold, he saw a small group of Chinese men, chanting in Hebrew and reading from a scroll. To his amazement, he realized that they were Jews. After the service, he went up to the cantor and told him, that he too was a Jew. The cantor looked at him in astonishment and finally asked in broken English, ‘Funny, you no look Jewish’.

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  1. Tel-Aviv University, Israel

    Shlomo Deshen (Professor of Anthropology) (Professor of Anthropology)

  2. University of Albany, New York, USA

    Walter P. Zenner (Professor of Anthropology) (Professor of Anthropology)

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Zenner, W.P., Deshen, S. (1996). Jews among Muslims in Precolonial Times: An Introductory Survey. In: Deshen, S., Zenner, W.P. (eds) Jews among Muslims. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-24863-6_1

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