RT Book
T1 A Century of Jewish Life in Shanghai
T2 Touro University Press
A2 Hochstadt, Steve 1948-
LA English
PP Boston, MA
PB Academic Studies Press
YR 2019
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/1690215372
AB 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
AB 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
OP 256
NO restricted access online access with authorization star
CN DS135.C5
SN 9781644691328
K1 Jewish refugees : China : Shanghai : Congresses
K1 Jews : China : Shanghai : Congresses
K1 World War, 1939-1945 : China : Shanghai : Congresses
K1 History / Jewish
K1 Asia
K1 Baghdadi Jews
K1 China
K1 Holocaust
K1 Jewish demography
K1 Jewish refugees
K1 Jews
K1 Nazism
K1 Refugees
K1 Russian Jews
K1 Shanghai Conservatory of Music
K1 Shanghai
K1 Shoah
K1 World War II
K1 antisemitism
K1 diaspora
K1 emigration
K1 ghettos
K1 history
K1 slums
K1 twentieth century
K1 war in history
K1 wartime
K1 Konferenzschrift : Shanghai University of International Business and Economics (SUIBE) : Juni 2015 : Shanghai
DO 10.1515/9781644691328