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According to an oral tradition dictated by Xu Xin, Director of the Center for Judaic Studies at Nanjing University, in his book Legends of the Chinese Jews of Kaifeng, the Kaifeng Jews called Judaism Yīcìlèyè jiào ( 一賜樂業教 ), lit.

the religion of Israel.

Yīcìlèyè is a transliteration and partial translation of " Israel ".

Xu Xin translates this phrase as " Chosen people, endowed by God, and contented with their lives and work ".