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 | | And likewise, Jews were in charge of the caravans to the Far East in the early centuries of the first millennium, because they expected to interact with their co-religionists who were already there. |
 | | The Jews of Kaifeng, he stated, observed most traditional festivals, refrained from eating pork, circumcised their infant sons, and generally followed the Laws of Moses, as similar to observant Jews Ricci had seen in Europe. |
 | | Manasseh suggested that for the Messiah to come, the Jews would have to come from all four corners of the world, and since the Jews were seen to be present in Asia, South America, and other far-flung corners of the world, the only place that they were absent was England. |
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