{"id":1867,"date":"2017-03-22T18:49:15","date_gmt":"2017-03-22T18:49:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hebrewusedbooks.com\/books\/?p=1867"},"modified":"2017-06-18T14:22:38","modified_gmt":"2017-06-18T14:22:38","slug":"the-haggadah-of-the-chinese-jews-cecil-roth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/hebrewusedbooks.com\/books\/2017\/03\/the-haggadah-of-the-chinese-jews-cecil-roth\/","title":{"rendered":"The Haggadah of the Chinese Jews,  Cecil Roth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>sold<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The Chinese were somehow impressed by the Jewish custom of not eating the <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Tendon\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Tendon\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"wikipedia noopener\">sinew<\/a> of the thigh. &#8220;Therefore do the children of Israel not eat the sinew &#8230; &#8220;1 They called the <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"History of the Jews in China\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/History_of_the_Jews_in_China\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"wikipedia noopener\">Jews in China<\/a>, &#8220;the pluckers of the sinew&#8221;. As an illus\u00adtration 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. &#8221;<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/hebrewusedbooks.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Jews_China_Cover.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-1869\" src=\"http:\/\/hebrewusedbooks.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Jews_China_Cover-194x300.jpg\" alt=\"Jews in China\" width=\"194\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/hebrewusedbooks.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Jews_China_Cover-194x300.jpg 194w, http:\/\/hebrewusedbooks.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Jews_China_Cover-400x620.jpg 400w, http:\/\/hebrewusedbooks.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Jews_China_Cover-768x1190.jpg 768w, http:\/\/hebrewusedbooks.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Jews_China_Cover-661x1024.jpg 661w, http:\/\/hebrewusedbooks.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Jews_China_Cover.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 194px) 100vw, 194px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/hebrewusedbooks.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Jews_China_Sinew.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-1870\" src=\"http:\/\/hebrewusedbooks.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Jews_China_Sinew-193x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"193\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/hebrewusedbooks.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Jews_China_Sinew-193x300.jpg 193w, http:\/\/hebrewusedbooks.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Jews_China_Sinew-400x621.jpg 400w, http:\/\/hebrewusedbooks.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Jews_China_Sinew-768x1192.jpg 768w, http:\/\/hebrewusedbooks.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Jews_China_Sinew-660x1024.jpg 660w, http:\/\/hebrewusedbooks.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Jews_China_Sinew.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 193px) 100vw, 193px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/hebrewusedbooks.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Jews_China_Sinew_part-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-1871\" src=\"http:\/\/hebrewusedbooks.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Jews_China_Sinew_part-1-300x131.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"131\" srcset=\"http:\/\/hebrewusedbooks.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Jews_China_Sinew_part-1-300x131.jpg 300w, http:\/\/hebrewusedbooks.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Jews_China_Sinew_part-1-400x175.jpg 400w, http:\/\/hebrewusedbooks.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Jews_China_Sinew_part-1-768x336.jpg 768w, http:\/\/hebrewusedbooks.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Jews_China_Sinew_part-1.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/hebrewusedbooks.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Li-Kuang-Tien.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-1872\" src=\"http:\/\/hebrewusedbooks.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Li-Kuang-Tien-188x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"188\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/hebrewusedbooks.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Li-Kuang-Tien-188x300.jpg 188w, http:\/\/hebrewusedbooks.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Li-Kuang-Tien-400x638.jpg 400w, http:\/\/hebrewusedbooks.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Li-Kuang-Tien-768x1225.jpg 768w, http:\/\/hebrewusedbooks.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Li-Kuang-Tien-642x1024.jpg 642w, http:\/\/hebrewusedbooks.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Li-Kuang-Tien.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 188px) 100vw, 188px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>sold &#8220;The Chinese were somehow impressed by the Jewish custom of not eating the sinew of the thigh. &#8220;Therefore do the children of Israel not eat the sinew &#8230; &#8220;1 They called the Jews in China, &#8220;the pluckers of the sinew&#8221;. As an illus\u00adtration I show the name here in Chinese characters. The curiosity of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[50,570],"tags":[803,802,571],"class_list":["post-1867","post","type-post","status-publish","format-image","hentry","category-haggadah","category-sold-out","tag-cecil-roth","tag-chinese-jews","tag-haggadah","post_format-post-format-image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/hebrewusedbooks.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1867","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/hebrewusedbooks.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/hebrewusedbooks.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hebrewusedbooks.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hebrewusedbooks.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1867"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/hebrewusedbooks.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1867\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2711,"href":"http:\/\/hebrewusedbooks.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1867\/revisions\/2711"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/hebrewusedbooks.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1867"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hebrewusedbooks.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1867"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hebrewusedbooks.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1867"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}