A Century of Jewish Life in Shanghai
Roles
Editor
Files
Description
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.
ISBN
9781644691311
Publication Date
12-1-2019
Publisher
Touro University Press
City
New York
Keywords
Jewish refugees -- China -- Shanghai -- Congresses, Jews -- China -- Shanghai -- Congresses, World War 1939-1945 -- China -- Shanghai -- Congresses, Ethnic relations, Jewish refugees
Disciplines
Cultural History | Ethnic Studies | History | Jewish Studies | Social History
