Ningpo
NINGPO
NINGPO , city in Chekiang province, E. China. The presence of Jewish settlers there in 1461 is recorded on the *Kaifeng stele inscriptions, which state that when the Kaifeng synagogue was destroyed by floods in that year and the sacred scriptures were lost, the Jews of Ningpo presented emissaries of the Kaifeng community with a Torah scroll. No other evidence recording the presence of Jews in Ningpo has been preserved.
bibliography:
W.C. White, Chinese Jews, pt. 2 (19662), 13, 27, 98.
[Rudolf Loewenthal]
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