A Century of Jewish Life in Shanghai

For a century, Jews were an unmistakable and prominent feature of Shanghai life. Three waves of Jews, representing three religious and ethnic communities, landed in Shanghai, remained separate for decades, but faced the calamity of World War II and ultimate dissolution together.

List of contents

Table of ContentsPreface
Rodger Citron
Introduction: How Many Shanghai Jews Were There?
Steve Hochstadt
Shanghai before the War
Shanghai Remembered: Recollections of Shanghai¿s Baghdadi Jews
Maisie Meyer
The Burak Family: The Migration of a Russian Jewish Family through the First Half of the Twentieth Century
Anne Atkinson
Russian Jews in Shanghai 1920¿1950: New Life as Shanghailanders
Liliane Willens
Shanghai and the Holocaust
Desperate Hopes, Shattered Dreams: The 1937 Shanghai¿Manila Voyage of the ¿Gneisenaü and the Fate of European Jewry
Jonathan Goldstein
Diplomatic Rescue: Shanghai as a Means of Escape and Refuge
Manli Ho
305/13 Kungping Road
Lotte Marcus
Survival in Shanghai 1939¿1947
Evelyn Pike Rubin
What I Learned from Shanghai Refugees
Steve Hochstadt
Chinese Responses to the Holocaust: Chinese Attitudes toward Jewish Refugees in the Late 1930s and Early 1940s
Xu Xin
Looking Back at Shanghai
Imagined Geographies, Imagined Identities, Imagined Glocal Histories
Dan Ben-Canaan
Ephemeral Memories, Eternal Traumas and Evolving Classifications: Shanghai Jewish Refugees and Debates about Defining a Holocaust Survivor
Gabrielle Abram
Bibliography
Index

About the author

Steve Hochstadt taught history at Illinois College 2006-2016, after teaching at Bates College in Maine for 27 years. His grandparents escaped from Vienna to Shanghai in 1939, and his research focuses on the Holocaust. His book Exodus to Shanghai: Stories of Escape from the Third Reich, based on interviews with former refugees, is being translated into Chinese.

Summary

Tells the story in their own words, and the words of modern scholars, of how Baghdadi, Russian and Central European Jews found their way to Shanghai, created lives in the world's most cosmopolitan city, and were forced to find new homes in the late 1940s.

Product details

Assisted by	Steve Hochstadt (Editor)
Publisher	Touro University Press
Languages	English
Product format	Hardback
Released	31.12.2019
EAN	9781644691311
ISBN	978-1-64469-131-1
No. of pages	256
Dimensions	161 mm x 240 mm x 18 mm
Weight	552 g
Series	Touro University Press
Subjects	Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous

Product details

• Assisted by: Steve Hochstadt (Editor)
• Publisher: Touro University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.12.2019
• EAN: 9781644691311
• ISBN: 978-1-64469-131-1
• No. of pages: 256
• Dimensions: 161 mm x 240 mm x 18 mm
• Weight: 552 g
• Series: Touro University Press
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous