A Century of Jewish Life in Shanghai
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...
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| Tipo de documento: | Recurso Electrónico Livro |
| Idioma: | Inglês |
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| Fernleihe: | Fernleihe für die Fachinformationsdienste |
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Boston, MA
Academic Studies Press
[2019]
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| Em: | Ano: 2019 |
| Coletânea / Revista: | Touro University Press
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| (Cadeias de) Palavra- chave padrão: | B
China
/ Schanghai
/ Judeus
/ Refugiado
/ Emigrante
/ Segregação (Sociologia)
/ História 1930-1950
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| Outras palavras-chave: | B
World War, 1939-1945 (China) (Shanghai) Congresses
B Jewish refugees (China) (Shanghai) Congresses B Jews (China) (Shanghai) Congresses B History / Jewish B Contribuição Shanghai University of International Business and Economics (SUIBE) Juni 2015 (Shanghai) |
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Conteúdos Cover (Verlag) Cover (Verlag) Volltext (lizenzpflichtig) |
| Parallel Edition: | Não eletrônico
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| Resumo: | 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 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 -- The 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 |
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| Descrição do item: | restricted access online access with authorization star |
| Tipo de documento: | Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. |
| ISBN: | 1644691329 |
| Acesso: | Restricted Access |
| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1515/9781644691328 |