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German-Speaking Jewish Refugees in Asia, 19301950 - Shelter From the Storm?

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Engaging directly with the rich and growing historiography on the origins, course, and consequences of the Holocaust globally and in East, Southeast, and South Asia specifically, this volume provides a framework in which we can better understand how global traditions of empire and colonialism matter in our efforts to understand the Holocaust


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1. Introduction
Joanne Miyang Cho, Eric Kurlander, and Doug McGetchin
Part I. German-speaking Jewish Refugee Experience in China
2. Strange Havens? Shanghai, Yunnan, and Manchuria as East Asian "Solutions"
to the "Jewish Question," 1933 - 1941
Eric Kurlander
3. Shanghai Refuge: Chinese and Japanese Responses to Jewish Exiles, 1933-1945
Wendy (Xiaoxue) Sun
4. The German-Jewish Refugee Experience in Wartime Shanghai and Contemporary Spaces of Memory
Thomas Pekar
5. Shanghai Sounds: Austro-German Jewish Refugee Musicians in the City "Upon the Sea" from 1938 to 1949
Hao Huang
6. American Dreams: Jewish Refugees, American Servicemen, and Chinese Locals in Post-World War II Shanghai
Kimberly Cheng
Part II. German-speaking Jewish Refugee Experience in Japan
7. Transcending the Holocaust: Japanese Appreciation for Jewish German Cultural Intermediaries and Their Survival in Japan
Ricky Law
8. The German-Jewish Business Community in Tokyo-Yokohama and the Relief Efforts for Refugees from Europe
Christian W. Spang
9. Wiltrud Preibisch's Japanese Diaries: A "quarter Jew" in Japan, 1937-1944
Kerstin Potter
Part III. German-speaking Jewish Refugee Experience in Southeast Asia
10. "Twice crushed within one decade": Tracking Trajectories of Central European Jewish refugees and Relief Provision in the Philippines, 1938-1948
Simone Gigliotti
11. "Only Halting to Replenish Their Supplies of Fuel?" The German European Jewish Refugee Experience in the Dutch East Indies, 1933-1945
Lisbeth Rosen Jacobson
Part IV. German-speaking Jewish Refugee Experience in South Asia
12. The Holocaust Correspondences of Ernst Cohn-Wiener and Maurice Laserson: Testimony to the Birth of a Jewish Aesthetics of Indian Art
Tirtha Prasad Mukhopadhyay
13. An Aesthetic Hybridity: Walter Kaufmann's Refuge in India during the Nazi Period
Shalva Weil
14. Affiliations, Entanglements and "Otherness": The Experiences of German-speaking Jewish Refugees in India, 1938-1948
Joseph Cronin
15. Jewish Migration from Germany to British Ceylon in the Context of the Second World War: Orientalism and the Place of Ideas in the Migration Regime
Sebastian Musch


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Joanne Miyang Cho is Professor of History at William Paterson University of New Jersey. Her recent publications include the edited volumes: Transnationalism and Migration in Modern Korea (2023), Musical Entanglements between Germany and East Asia (2021), East Asian-German Cinema (2021), and Sino-German Encounters (2021).
Eric Kurlander is William R. Kenan Jr. Professor of History and Director of Jewish Studies at Stetson University. His books include Modern Germany: A Global History (2023), Hitler's Monsters: A Supernatural History of the Third Reich (2017), Living with Hitler: Liberal Democrats in the Third Reich (2009), and The Price of Exclusion: Ethnicity, National Identity and the Decline of German Liberalism (2006).
Doug McGetchin is Professor of World History at Florida Atlantic University. He is a Fulbright-Nehru Scholar whose books include Modern Germany: A Global History (2023), Gendered Encounters between Germany and Asia (2016), Transcultural Encounters between Germany and India (2014), Indology, Indomania, Orientalism (2009), and Sanskrit and "Orientalism" (2004).


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Engaging directly with the rich and growing historiography on the origins, course, and consequences of the Holocaust globally and in East, Southeast, and South Asia specifically, this volume provides a framework in which we can better understand how global traditions of empire and colonialism matter in our efforts to understand the Holocaust

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