A Century of Jewish Life in Shanghai / / ed. by Steve Hochstadt.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Academic Studies Press Complete eBook-Package 2019
• MitwirkendeR: Abram, Gabrielle,; Atkinson, Anne,; Ben-Canaan, Dan,; Citron, Rodger,; Goldstein, Jonathan,; Ho, Manli,; Hochstadt, Steve,; Marcus, Lotte,; Meyer, Maisie,; Rubin, Evelyn Pike,; Willens, Liliane,; Xin, Xu,
• HerausgeberIn: Hochstadt, Steve,
• Place / Publishing House: Boston, MA : : Academic Studies Press, , [2019]; ©2019
• Year of Publication: 2019
• Language: English
• Series: Touro University Press
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (256 p.)

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...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• List of Illustrations
• Preface
• Introduction
• How Many Shanghai Jews Were There?
• Shanghai before the War
• Shanghai Remembered: Recollections of Shanghai’s Baghdadi Jews
• The Burak Family: The Migration of a Russian Jewish Family Through the First Half of the Twentieth Century
• Russian Jews in Shanghai 1920–1950: New Life as Shanghailanders
• Shanghai and the Holocaust
• Desperate Hopes, Shattered Dreams: The 1937 Shanghai–Manila Voyage of the “Gneisenau” and the Fate of European Jewry
• Diplomatic Rescue: Shanghai as a Means of Escape and Refuge
• 305/13 Kungping Road
• Survival in Shanghai 1939–1947
• What I Learned from Shanghai Refugees
• Chinese responses to the Holocaust: Chinese attitudes toward Jewish refugees in the late 1930s and early 1940s
• Looking Back at Shanghai
• Imagined Geographies, Imagined Identities, Imagined Glocal Histories
• Ephemeral Memories, Eternal Traumas and Evolving Classifications: Shanghai Jewish Refugees and Debates about Defining a Holocaust Survivor
• Bibliography
• Index