本书逐次介绍了有近千年历史、如今仅存几个被同化的后裔的开封犹太社团——自19世纪中叶定居香港和上海的几百名来自巴格达的犹太商人，来自沙皇俄国和苏联的众多犹太移民，以及20世纪三四十年代为逃避纳粹大屠杀而来到当时唯一避难地上海的几万犹太难民。它不仅是一本历史著作，也让更多的中外读者了解到犹太民族和中华民族的交往历史。

This book introduces one after another the Kaifeng Jewish community with a history of nearly a thousand years and only a few assimilated descendants—the hundreds of Jewish merchants from Baghdad who have settled in Hong Kong and Shanghai since the middle of the 19th century, and many from Tsarist Russia and the Soviet Union. Jewish immigrants and tens of thousands of Jewish refugees who came to Shanghai, the only place of refuge at the time, to escape the Holocaust in the 1930s and 1940s. It is not only a historical work, but also allows more Chinese and foreign readers to understand the history of interaction between the Jewish nation and the Chinese nation.