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Kaifeng, Jerusalem

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Producer(s)	Noam Urbach
Director(s)	Noam Urbach
Release Date	1999
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Runtime	50 min
Youth Media	n

Film Description

A full-length documentary filmed over eight years in Israel and China, follows the descendants of the Chinese Jewish community in the ancient capital city of Kaifeng on their quest to recover their Jewish identity. It examines the community’s odd political situation, in which both China and Israel—each for its own reasons—are actively opposed to their quest.

The film focuses on the Jin family who managed to leave China for Israel in 1999, with the assistance of a Christian Zionist group. With no official status in Israel, but with dogged persistence and a unique brand of Jewish identity, the Jins try to communicate their extraordinary circumstances to the Israeli establishment and to educate the authorities as well as the public. This truly cross-cultural story, told using footage of a type that is extremely difficult to obtain in China, will affect the way Jews, Chinese and basically everyone views the global Jewish identity and the right for self-identification.

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Last Updated On:	May 22, 2012

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