Professor Xu Xin is the Director of the Center for Jewish Studies at The Nanjing University in China. A Professor of History of the Jewish Culture and President of the China Judaic Studies Association, he is also the Editor-in- Chief and a major contributor to the Chinese edition of The Encyclopedia Judaica. Professor Xu Xin's published works include "The Jews of Kaifeng, China: History, Culture, and Religion" (2003) and "Anti-Semitism: How and Why" (1996). His university courses include Jewish History, Jewish Culture and World Civilization, Holocaust studies, History of the Jewish Diaspora, and Survey on Judaism. He has organized many exhibitions in China, such as Judaic Studies in China, Courage to Remember: Holocaust 1933-45, and The American Jewish Experience, as well as The First International Conference on Jewish Studies in China in 1996 and The International Symposium on the History of the Jewish Diaspora in China in 2002. His activities in promoting the study of Jewish subjects among the Chinese have been supported by a number of foundations such as The Rothschild Family Foundation, The Skirball Foundation and The Samuel Bronfman Foundation. He has lectured worldwide, in places such as Israel, The United States, Canada, Hong Kong and China, and received both The James Friend Memorial Award and an honorary Doctor of Philosophy by Bar-Ilan University, Israel, in recognition of his work in researching the Jews of China.
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