Great article in LA Times Magazine last Sunday

[Rob_Hugo@PortNW]

"Jerry Moses Remarkable Journey" This detailed the return to China by a former German Jewish refugee from Nazi Germany who along with 18,000 German Jews were given santuary in Shanghai. The Chinese sheltered these refugees until the Japanese invasion put them all in the same boat.

[Anonymous]

Hello! Read on CNN.com today:

BEIJING, China (AP) -- Iran's top nuclear negotiator spent only 12 hours in Beijing on Thursday but the quick visit appeared to cement key Chinese support as Tehran fights attempts by the United States and Europe to have its nuclear activity brought before the U.N. Security Council.

"The Chinese government is opposed to bringing the Iranian nuclear issue from the International Atomic Energy Agency to the U.N. Security Council and they believe the issue should be solved within the framework of the IAEA," Iran's chief nuclear negotiator Ali Larijani told reporters after a day of meetings with Chinese officials.

Just wondering if we'll get to talk about modern Asian political positions and reasons for them.

[clay dube]

I also appreciated the article on Jerry Moses's return to Shanghai. The Skirball Center in LA has offered a variety of programs on Jews in China. Many of these have focused on the Jews of Kaifeng, a community that emerged as part of the silk road exchange.

A website devoted to the Jews who ended up in Shanghai (note that many fled Russia during the Russian civil war of 1919-21, settling in Harbin, Tianjin and other northern Chinese cities as well) can be seen at:

http://www.chinajewish.org/

One article about the Jews of Kaifeng can be seen at: http://www.sino-judaic.org/kaifeng.html

[Anonymous]

Elsbietta, I was not fortunate enough to read the article. Do you still have it? I'd like to read the whole thing. I also wanted to use it as a spring-board of an immigration conversation with my fifth grade class. We are discussing reasons why people leave their home countries. I think that it would bring on an important conversation about human equality today.

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