China and the Jews: A Story of Friendship and Fascination

Thu 6 Jan, 7 pm. 3800 Kalmia Ave, Boulder, 80301. Linda Loewenstein, Executive Director, 303-447-3313, bjcf@qwest.net. Boulder Jewish Community Center - [events]

With Professor Xu Xin A world expert on Kaifeng Jewry who has translated the Encyclopedia Judaica into Chinese, Professor Xu Xin of Nanjing University was recently praised in the Jerusalem Post as the single most active and productive Chinese scholar on Judaism. Xu Xin has translated works of I.B. Singer, Joseph Heller, Norman Mailer, John Cheever and Clifford Odets into Chinese and has spent time studying Talmud at Hebrew Union College in Cincinnati, Yiddish with YIVO in New York, and Judaic studies at Harvard. Thursday, January 6 7 pm At the Boulder JCC $8 at the door