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China Judaic Studies Association
Promoting Judaic Studies in China
Building an Academic Judaic Center in China
However, the Center, without its own physical facility, is currently so limited that it lacks sufficient space to house even its most prized possession: the largest, most complete library of Judaica in China. To obtain needed classrooms, offices, exhibit space, and a new library, we will join Nanjing University and Johns Hopkins University to create a new, larger, more modern facilty: The Center will be part of a larger Nanjing University-Johns Hopkins University Institute for International Research.
Professor Xu Xin has been working diligently to spread the news and reach people and foundations to meet the estimated cost of $100,000.
The Association now requests
your help.
You can help by engaging
in one (or more) of the following:
• Send books on Jewish
history, and Jewish culture to enrich our library for research and teaching.
Used books are just fine. It doesn’t matter if books are duplicated as
they would then be shared with other Judaic Centers in China.
• Provide scholarships
for our MA or Ph.D. students. $250 supports one student.
• Make donations to
our lecture and publication fund.
• Approach foundations
or organizations interested in supporting such Jewish studies as those
on the Holocaust, religion, history, culture and Diasporas.
Donors will be honored in the building: major donors with the naming of rooms, others with plaques naming them as sponsors ($100), benefactors ($500) and patrons ($1,000).
To facilitate this worthwhile project, tax-deductible donations may be made out to The Sino-Judaic Institute and mailed to 232 Lexington Drive, Menlo Park, CA 94025. Attn: Al Dien. Attach a separate note stating that the funds are intended for the Nanjing Center for Judaic Studies. For further information or for information regarding stock transfers, query Al Dien at the Sino-Judaic Institute.
For further information,
or to send books, the address is:
Center for Jewish
Studies
Department of Religious
Studies Nanjing University
Nanjing, 210093, China
Tel: 011-86-25-83593342
Fax: 86-25-52283598
Email: xuxin49@jlonline.com
PROGRESS REPORT (Jan, 2006) Plans are now underway for the opening celebration in October or November, 2006.