The Taiping revolution 1960-64 dealt " mortal blow to the Kaifeng-fu Jews, who were massacred in great numbers. This period was started off with the greats munds tion of 1860 when half of the Jewish settlement was carried away by the floods. During the second half of the last century the Chinese Jews to have been the target of ergotic endeavours to convert them to Christianity and in consequence they shut themselves up entirely. In 1866-Rev. Dr. Martin of the Tsung-wan College in Peking reported in the "New York Times" a Journey to Kaifengtu, the 470 miles of which it took him nearly a month to cover. He found that the Jews did not more follow Jewish rites, they no more circumcised their new born sons and the Hebrew language was being forgotten. End of last century many Hebrew documents and scrolls found their way into European museums. Bishop Smith secured eight small books containing each one of the Sabbath sections of the Law in Hebrew, six copy scrolls, 30 of the weekly' portions of the Law and over 30 quarto books on Chinese paper containing prayers for every day use, for Sabbaths and festivals. In '1898 Dr. Neubauer of Oxford described these documents fully in the eighth volume of the "Jewish Quarterly Review." They were deposited at the museum at Lincoln's Inn of London Society for Pramoting Christianity among the Jews. These are evidently. the "some 60 Hebrew manuscripts" mentioned according to your article by the "Jewish World" as having been acquired by the Hebrew Union College of Cincinnati, One scroll each was p sented by the Society to the British Museum, and the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge. One ce; is at present in Hongkong. Rev. Dr. Martin has supplied Yale Col lege and the Lennox Library at New
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