According to Gilah Yelin Hirsch, in Mind to Meme: Uncovering the Origins of Shared Consciousness Between Judaism and Tibetan Buddhism, a Jew by the name of Zhou, from the province of Shanxi, became a close advisor to Genghis Khan during the 13th century.

Zhou was known because of the virtue of his wife, Cui.

In a 19th century work, The New (Dynastic) History, Cui, a Jewess, was lauded “as the perfect Confucian woman” After her husband passed away, Cui gave away all her possessions. She supported herself by spinning and weaving and was known to be so graciously pious that later Confucian historians claimed her to be one of their own.