Desperate Hopes, Shattered Dreams: The 1937 Shanghai–Manila Voyage of the “Gneisenau” and the Fate of European Jewry

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. List of Illustrations vii
4. Preface ix
5. Introduction
6. How Many Shanghai Jews Were There? 3
7. Shanghai before the War
8. Shanghai Remembered: Recollections of Shanghai’s Baghdadi Jews 29
9. The Burak Family: The Migration of a Russian Jewish Family Through the First Half of the Twentieth Century 73
10. Russian Jews in Shanghai 1920–1950: New Life as Shanghailanders 85
11. Shanghai and the Holocaust
12. Desperate Hopes, Shattered Dreams: The 1937 Shanghai–Manila Voyage of the “Gneisenau” and the Fate of European Jewry 99
13. Diplomatic Rescue: Shanghai as a Means of Escape and Refuge 116
14. 305/13 Kungping Road 127
15. Survival in Shanghai 1939–1947 137
16. What I Learned from Shanghai Refugees 143
17. Chinese responses to the Holocaust: Chinese attitudes toward Jewish refugees in the late 1930s and early 1940s 158
18. Looking Back at Shanghai
19. Imagined Geographies, Imagined Identities, Imagined Glocal Histories 179
20. Ephemeral Memories, Eternal Traumas and Evolving Classifications: Shanghai Jewish Refugees and Debates about Defining a Holocaust Survivor 203
21. Bibliography 232
22. Index 236