What are some common Jewish surnames

Ai, Zhao, Zhang, Shi, Jin, Gao and two Li surnames.

The Kaifeng Jews are the best documented Chinese Jewish community. Kaifeng Jews are in accordance with their original surnames changed to Chinese surnames, *** divided into seven surnames and eight families after nearly 700 years of history, the Zhang family name and a Li family name annihilated, so far in the vicinity of Kaifeng *** six surnames of Jewish descendants living.

Statistics at the beginning of 1987 showed that Kaifeng City *** living in sixty-six households of Jewish descendants, 159 people. Among them, thirty-one households with the surname Shi, 64 people; twelve households with the surname Li, 42 people; two households with the surname Zhao, 11 people; seventeen households with the surname Ai, 32 people; two households with the surname Jin, 7 people; two households with the surname Gao, 3 people in the Kaifeng Jews of the seven surnames and eight families.

The Zhang and Li surnames intermarried only with the Hui, and according to genealogical records, only Jews married their daughters to Hui families, but no Hui married their daughters to Jewish families, which may be the reason for the annihilation of these two surnames, whereas the other six families intermarried with the Han Chinese, and there are no records of intermarriages with the Hui among the six extant families of Jewish descendants.

Extended information:

According to historical records, a Jewish community and a synagogue existed in Kaifeng from at least the Song Dynasty in the 12th century until the late 19th century. Some reports suggest that they have in fact lived there since the late 9th century.

They called themselves in Kaifeng the "Yizi Leye" congregation, most likely a translation of Israel. The Chinese people around them called it "Picking tendons religion" out of little understanding of their religion, from their custom of removing the tendons of their feet when slaughtering cattle and sheep (according to legend, Jacob, the ancestor of the Jews, had sprained his thigh while wrestling with the angels, and thus had this custom). Or "blue-capped Huihui", "Gerontocracy" and so on.

The earliest date of the arrival of the Jews in China has been theorized to be the Zhou Dynasty and before, the Han Dynasty, the Tang Dynasty and the Song Dynasty.

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