The Haggadah of the Chinese Jews, Cecil Roth

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“The Chinese were somehow impressed by the Jewish custom of not eating the sinew of the thigh. “Therefore do the children of Israel not eat the sinew … “1 They called the Jews in China, “the pluckers of the sinew”. As an illus­tration I show the name here in Chinese characters. The curiosity of the people in whose countries we lived has always been aroused by our customs, and especially by our dietary laws. ”

Jews in China

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