Donald Leslie (academic)
Donald Daniel Leslie (1922–2020) was a British-born Australian historian, especially known for his work on the Chinese Jews of Kaifeng, his books The Survival of the Chinese Jews (1972) and Les juifs de Chine (1980;co-authored with Joseph Dehergne) bringing the community to broader Western attention, through his "unique expertise" in Hebrew and Chinese. [1] He also wrote on Chinese Islam and on religious minorities in the PRC in general.
Born to a Jewish family in Tottenham, London, he served in World War II and subsequently studied Chinese at SOAS. He then earned an M.A. from Cambridge and a Ph.D. at the College of Sorbonne (1962), having also held a research fellowship in Israel. He accepted a permanent position at Australian National University and later held visiting positions at Kyoto University. From 1970 to 1973 he worked at Tel Aviv University before returning to Australia to teach at the University of Canberra. In retirement he retained an affiliation with ANU. [2] [3]
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- ^ Pollak, Michael. Monumenta Serica, vol. 36, 1984, pp. 630–632. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/40702994. Accessed 28 Aug. 2021. Review of The Chinese-Hebrew Memorial Book of the Jewish Community of K’aifeng
- ^ "Passing of Prof. Donald D. Leslie | H-Judaic | H-Net". networks.h-net.org.
- ^ "No minyan, no Kaddish: a Canberra Jewish funeral in the time of corona". April 3, 2020.
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