antisemitism
Asia
Baghdadi Jews
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China
diaspora
emigration
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ghettos
history
Holocaust
Jewish demography
Jewish refugees
Jews
Nazism
Refugees
Russian Jews
Shanghai
Shanghai Conservatory of Music
Shoah
slums
twentieth century
war in history
wartime
World War II
Product details
- ISBN 9781644691311
- Weight: 530g
- Dimensions: 159 x 238mm
- Publication Date: 02 Jan 2020
- Publisher: Academic Studies Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
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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.
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.
