Title A century of Jewish life in Shanghai / edited by Steve Hochstadt

Published New York, NY : Touro University Press, [2019]

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Description 1 online resource (xi, 242 pages) Series Touro University Press Books Touro University Press books. Contents Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Preface / Citron, Rodger -- Introduction -- How Many Shanghai Jews Were There? / Hochstadt, Steve -- Shanghai before the War -- Shanghai Remembered: Recollections of Shanghai's Baghdadi Jews / Meyer, Maisie -- The Burak Family: The Migration of a Russian Jewish Family Through the First Half of the Twentieth Century / Atkinson, Anne -- Russian Jews in Shanghai 1920-1950: New Life as Shanghailanders / Willens, Liliane -- Shanghai and the Holocaust -- Desperate Hopes, Shattered Dreams: The 1937 Shanghai-Manila Voyage of the "Gneisenau" and the Fate of European Jewry / Goldstein, Jonathan -- Diplomatic Rescue: Shanghai as a Means of Escape and Refuge / Ho, Manli -- 305/13 Kungping Road / Marcus, Lotte -- Survival in Shanghai 1939-1947 / Rubin, Evelyn Pike -- What I Learned from Shanghai Refugees / Hochstadt, Steve -- Chinese responses to the Holocaust: Chinese attitudes toward Jewish refugees in the late 1930s and early 1940s / Xin, Xu -- Looking Back at Shanghai -- Imagined Geographies, Imagined Identities, Imagined Glocal Histories / Ben-Canaan, Dan -- Ephemeral Memories, Eternal Traumas and Evolving Classifications: Shanghai Jewish Refugees and Debates about Defining a Holocaust Survivor / Abram, Gabrielle -- Bibliography -- Index Summary 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 "For a century, Jews were an unmistakable and prominent feature of Shanghai life. They built hotels and stood in bread lines, hobnobbed with the British and Chinese elites and were confined to a wartime ghetto. Jews taught at the Shanghai Conservatory of Music, sold Viennese pastries, and shared the worst slum with native Shanghainese. 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. In this book, we hear their own words and the words of modern scholars explaining 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"-- Provided by publisher Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Proceedings of a conference which took place in Shanghai in June 2015 Print version record Subject Jewish refugees -- China -- Shanghai -- Congresses Jews -- China -- Shanghai -- Congresses World War, 1939-1945 -- China -- Shanghai -- Congresses HISTORY -- Jewish. Ethnic relations Jewish refugees Jews SUBJECT Shanghai (China) -- Ethnic relations -- Congresses Subject China -- Shanghai Genre/Form proceedings (reports) Conference papers and proceedings Conference papers and proceedings. Actes de congrès. Form Electronic book Author Hochstadt, Steve, 1948- editor. ISBN 1644691329 9781644691328

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