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Xu Xin (Judaic scholar)

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He is a member of a number of academic organizations in China, such as Jiangsu Writers' Association, the Association of All-China Comparative Literature, the Association of Translators of Jiangsu, and the Society of World History Studies of China. Currently he serves as President of the China Judaic
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in 1996. The Chinese edition of the Encyclopaedia Judaica won an award of Excellent Book by Bureau of Press and Publication of Shanghai and East China in 1994, and an award of Excellent Reference Book by General Administration of Press and Publication of the People's Republic of China in 1995. Xu's
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Upon his return to Nanjing, he discovered that he got a larger audience when he lectured about his three weeks in Israel than when he talked about his two-year stay in the
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and writers to the Chinese public in the 1990s. He is also a translator of many books that were published in English. Works he translated into Chinese include:
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In 1986, while teaching a course on American Jewish authors, he met a Jew for the first time: Professor James Friend, chair of the English Department at
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essay on "Modern Hebrew Literature" won a Second Place of Excellent essays on Social Sciences by the Bureau of Higher Education of
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for a semester. Friend invited Xu to be an exchange professor at Chicago State. While there, Xu lived with the Friend family (in
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He has led numerous Jewish heritage tours from the US, Israel, the Great Britain, Australia, Canada, and France to
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In the past 20 years, he has been invited to the U.S. 13 times, and has delivered over 500 lectures in the
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in 1977 as an English major. He became a faculty member the same year. Until 1986, he taught post-
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The Diane and Guilford Glazer Institute of Jewish and Israel Studies at Nanjing University
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as well as the religious studies departments of many universities also received copies.
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purchased copies for diplomats assigned to Israel. Chinese Jewish families in
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His activities have been widely reported by such newspapers and magazines as
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In 1995, he was honored with the "James Friend Memorial Award." In 2002,
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the Diane and Guilford Glazer Institute for Jewish and Israel Studies
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Studies Association and vice-president of China Association for
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The Years of Extermination: Nazi Germany and the Jews, 1939-1945
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from the article and its talk page, especially if potentially
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The Jews of Kaifeng, China: History, Culture, and Religion
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Xu Xin was awarded a Special Government Allowance by the
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Xu has won five titles of Excellent Teacher Award from
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He was the first Chinese scholar to introduce modern
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on his way back to China in 1988, when there were no
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authors. Since 1986, he has focused on the study of
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He visited 192: 178: 163: 145: 138: 553:(Hundred Flowers Art and Literature Press, 1985) 513:(Inner Mongolia People's Publishing House, 1999) 488:Israel 2000 Years: A History of People and Place 237:scholar, as well as the founder and director of 842:State Council of the People's Republic of China 431:to Chinese readers and has introduced over 50 529:(Contemporary Foreign Literature, No.2, 1990) 444:by Vivian Jeanette Kaplan (Yilin Press, 2014) 8: 474:, (East China Normal University Press, 2005) 500:(Shanghai People's Publishing House, 2000) 484:(Shanghai People's Publishing House, 2004) 135: 53:about living persons that is unsourced or 1029: 1027: 961: 959: 906: 904: 124:Learn how and when to remove this message 517:Anthology of Modern Hebrew Short Stories 460:Selected Reading of Great Jewish Thought 388:at other universities throughout China. 229:; born June 16, 1949) is a professor at 1184: 1044:United States Holocaust Memorial Museum 995: 993: 991: 989: 900: 396:He is editor of the Chinese edition of 855:Legends of the Chinese Jews of Kaifeng 561:and taught various college courses at 478:The American Jew, 1585-1990: A History 402:Legends of the Chinese Jews of Kaifeng 1118:The Halle Institute, Emory University 1070:. The Association of Jewish Libraries 759:at the turn of the 20th century) and 416:(KTAV Publishing House, Inc., 2003), 412:(Peking University Press, 2002), and 288:province) in 1949 and graduated from 7: 1214:Academic staff of Nanjing University 1141:Treiman, Daniel (28 February 2003). 1034:Fleishman, Aleisa (8 October 2009). 593:at the Center for Jewish Studies of 420:(Peking University Press, 2006) and 1095:"Jewish Studies Flourish in China" 1093:Myers, David N. (15 August 2012). 694:The Hebrew University of Jerusalem 577:(2001). He was a guest speaker at 380:in 1994. His small-scale class on 14: 1168:China Judaic Studies Association 911:Niebuhr, Gustav (13 March 1999). 861:Notable Book for Older Readers. 678:University of Southern California 408:(Shanghai Shanlian Books, 1996), 1192:Above the Drowning Sea Witnesses 966:Song, Wenwei (4 November 2008). 686:University of Colorado at Denver 519:(Lijiang Publishing House, 1992) 20: 968:"Xu Xin, a pioneer in research" 541:(Shanxi Publishing House, 1987) 276:Education and professional life 1036:"Xu Xin (podcast interview on 682:Miami International University 579:Hebrew University of Jerusalem 225: 1: 875:'s Board of Trustees and the 494:Duden Atlas of Jewish History 248:Until 1986, he taught mostly 851:A History of Western Culture 849:province in 1994. 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