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Crusade survivor study

Posted February 9th, 2012 at 07:16 PM by ghostexorcist
Updated November 28th, 2012 at 06:50 PM by ghostexorcist

A Brief Study on a Jewish Survivor of the 1099 Siege of Jerusalem

by Jim R. McClanahan

The First Crusade was a religio-political war that culminated with the siege of the holy city of Jerusalem in 1099. Most European accounts of this "pilgrimage" (as it was contemporarily called) were written years after the fact, leading to much exaggeration in regard to individual fighting prowess and the number of lives claimed. For instance, one chronicle mentions men...
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Kaifeng Jew oral legend paper

Posted December 14th, 2011 at 08:25 PM by ghostexorcist
Updated May 3rd, 2012 at 12:07 PM by ghostexorcist

Origin Legends of the Kaifeng Jews

By Jim R. McClanahan

In my two-part paper on the Kaifeng Jews (here and here), I mentioned three stone inscriptions that gave different times for the Jews settlement in China. The 1489 stone cites the Song Dynasty (10th-13th c. CE), the 1512 stone cites the Han Dynasty (2nd c. BCE-2nd c. CE), and the 1663 (side A) stone cites the Zhou Dynasty (11th-3rd c. BCE). Well, it turns out that there are two oral traditions separate...
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Kaifeng Jew paper - Part II

Posted May 5th, 2011 at 08:04 PM by ghostexorcist
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Kaifeng Jews: Why their ancestors came to China - Part II

By Jim R. McClanahan

BACK TO PART ONE

Proponents of the Song-entry theory often cite a passage from the 1489 inscription which reads: “Bringing tribute of Western cloth [西洋布], they entered (the court of) Song, and the Emperor said: ‘You have come to our China; reverence and preserve the customs of your ancestors, and hand them down at Bianliang (Kaifeng).’”[1] Considering...
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Kaifeng Jew paper - Part I

Posted May 5th, 2011 at 07:03 PM by ghostexorcist
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Kaifeng Jews: Why their ancestors came to China - Part I

By Jim R. McClanahan

The Italian Jesuit Matteo Ricci became the first westerner to learn about the Jewish community of Kaifeng City, Henan Province, China when he was contacted by a Chinese-Jew named Ai Tian (艾田) in 1605 CE.[1] This discovery would lead to droves of religious and secular researchers visiting the community in the hopes of obtaining ancient, pre-Christian editions of the Old Testament,...
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European History: the end of WW1 and 1933?

Posted January 27th, 2011 at 11:53 AM by his.story

I have this task at school but I have no clue about it and I have no idea how to answer it but I am very interested in knowing because it really interests me:
What do these sources suggests about how attitudes have changed between the end of WW1 (sources 1 and 2) and 1933 (source 3)?
Here are the sources-
-source 1: a poster published in 1920 which explains that over 120,000 German Jews were killed fighting for their country in WW1. The poster is addressed to 'all German mothers'....
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