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

Publication Info. New York, NY : Touro University Press, [2019]

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Description 1 online resource (xi, 242 pages).
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Series Touro University Press Books
Touro University Press books.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Note Proceedings of a conference which took place in Shanghai in June 2015.
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.
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 -- 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
Local Note eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America
Subject Jewish refugees -- China -- Shanghai -- Congresses.
Jewish refugees.
China -- Shanghai.
Jews -- China -- Shanghai -- Congresses.
Jews.
World War, 1939-1945 -- China -- Shanghai -- Congresses.
Shanghai (China) -- Ethnic relations -- Congresses.
World War (1939-1945)
Chronological Term 1939-1945
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Conference papers and proceedings.
Conference papers and proceedings.
Added Author Hochstadt, Steve, 1948- editor.
Other Form: Print version: Century of Jewish life in Shanghai. New York, NY : Touro University Press ; Brookline, MA : Academic Studies Press, [2019] 9781644691311 (DLC) 2019025634 (OCoLC)1105152152
ISBN 1644691329
9781644691328 (electronic book)