A Century of Jewish Life in Shanghai - (Touro University Press) by Steve Hochstadt (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br><p>For a century, Jews were an unmistakable and prominent feature of Shanghai life. 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.</p><p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p>For a century, Jews were an unmistakable and prominent feature of<br /> Shanghai life. They built hotels and stood in bread lines, hobnobbed<br /> with the British and Chinese elites and were confined to a wartime<br /> ghetto. Jews taught at the Shanghai Conservatory of Music, sold<br /> Viennese pastries, and shared the worst slum with native<br /> Shanghainese. Three waves of Jews, representing three religious and<br /> ethnic communities, landed in Shanghai, remained separate for<br /> decades, but faced the calamity of World War II and ultimate<br /> dissolution together.<br /> In this book, we hear their own words and the words of<br /> modern scholars explaining how Baghdadi, Russian and Central<br /> European Jews found their way to Shanghai, created lives in the<br /> world's most cosmopolitan city, and were forced to find new homes in<br /> the late 1940s.</p><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><p><strong>Steve Hochstadt</strong> 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 <em>Exodus to Shanghai: Stories of Escape from the Third Reich</em>, based on interviews with former refugees, is being translated into Chinese.</p>
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