TY - BOOK AU - Abram,Gabrielle AU - Atkinson,Anne AU - Ben-Canaan,Dan AU - Citron,Rodger AU - Goldstein,Jonathan AU - Ho,Manli AU - Hochstadt,Steve AU - Marcus,Lotte AU - Meyer,Maisie AU - Rubin,Evelyn Pike AU - Willens,Liliane AU - Xin,Xu TI - A Century of Jewish Life in Shanghai T2 - Touro University Press SN - 9781644691311 AV - DS135.C5 C355 2019 U1 - 951/.132004924009041 23 PY - 2019///] CY - Boston, MA : PB - Academic Studies Press, KW - Jewish refugees KW - China KW - Shanghai KW - Congresses KW - Jews KW - World War, 1939-1945 KW - HISTORY / Jewish KW - bisacsh KW - Asia KW - Baghdadi Jews KW - Holocaust KW - Jewish demography KW - Nazism KW - Refugees KW - Russian Jews KW - Shanghai Conservatory of Music KW - Shoah KW - World War II KW - antisemitism KW - diaspora KW - emigration KW - ghettos KW - history KW - slums KW - twentieth century KW - war in history KW - wartime N1 - 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; restricted access N2 - 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 UR - https://doi.org/10.1515/9781644691328?locatt=mode:legacy UR - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781644691328 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9781644691328/original ER -