A Century of Jewish Life in Shanghai (Touro University Press) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1644693313 ISBN 13: 9781644693315

Publisher: Touro University Press, 2020

Synopsis

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.

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About the Author

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.

Edition details

• Publisher: Touro University Press
• Publication date: 2020
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1644693313
• ISBN 13: 9781644693315
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 256
• Editor: Hochstadt Steve