A Century of Jewish Life in Shanghai

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A Century of Jewish Life in Shanghai

Edited by: Steve Hochstadt

Language: English

Published/Copyright: 2019

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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.

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Hochstadt Steve :

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.

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.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	v
List of Illustrations Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Preface Rodger Citron Publicly Available Download PDF	ix
Introduction
How Many Shanghai Jews Were There? Steve Hochstadt Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	3
Shanghai before the War
Shanghai Remembered: Recollections of Shanghai’s Baghdadi Jews Maisie Meyer Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	29
The Burak Family: The Migration of a Russian Jewish Family Through the First Half of the Twentieth Century Anne Atkinson Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	73
Russian Jews in Shanghai 1920–1950: New Life as Shanghailanders Liliane Willens Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	85
Shanghai and the Holocaust
Desperate Hopes, Shattered Dreams: The 1937 Shanghai–Manila Voyage of the “Gneisenau” and the Fate of European Jewry Jonathan Goldstein Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	99
Diplomatic Rescue: Shanghai as a Means of Escape and Refuge Manli Ho Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	116
305/13 Kungping Road Lotte Marcus Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	127
Survival in Shanghai 1939–1947 Evelyn Pike Rubin Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	137
What I Learned from Shanghai Refugees Steve Hochstadt Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	143
Chinese responses to the Holocaust: Chinese attitudes toward Jewish refugees in the late 1930s and early 1940s Xu Xin Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	158
Looking Back at Shanghai
Imagined Geographies, Imagined Identities, Imagined Glocal Histories Dan Ben-Canaan Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	179
Ephemeral Memories, Eternal Traumas and Evolving Classifications: Shanghai Jewish Refugees and Debates about Defining a Holocaust Survivor Gabrielle Abram Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	203
Bibliography Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	232
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	236

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December 17, 2019

eBook ISBN:

9781644691328

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256

Illustrations:

24

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1

https://doi.org/10.1515/9781644691328

eBook ISBN: 9781644691328

Keywords for this book

Jews; China; Shanghai; Refugees; World War II; ghettos; slums; Baghdadi Jews; Russian Jews; emigration; Holocaust; Shoah; history; twentieth century; Shanghai Conservatory of Music; wartime; Nazism; antisemitism; Jewish demography; Asia; Jewish refugees; diaspora; war in history

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A Century of Jewish Life in Shanghai

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