Front cover image for Wartime Shanghai and the Jewish refugees from Central Europe : survival, co-existence, and identity in a multi-ethnic city

Wartime Shanghai and the Jewish refugees from Central Europe : survival, co-existence, and identity in a multi-ethnic city

Irene Eber (Author)
The study discusses the history of the Jewish refugees within the Shanghai setting and its relationship to the two established Jewish communities, the Sephardi and Russian Jews. Attention is also focused on the cultural life of the refugees who used both German and Yiddish, and on their attempts to cope under Japanese occupation after the outbreak of the Pacific War. Differences of identity existed between Sephardi and Ashkenazi Jews, religious and secular, aside from linguistic and cultural differences. The study aims to understand the exile condition of the refugees and their amazing efforts
eBook, English, 2012
De Gruyter, Berlin, 2012
History
1 online resource (xiii, 245 pages) : illustrations, maps
9783110268188, 9783110485684, 9781280597664, 3110268183, 3110485680, 1280597666
784886957
Chapter 1: Shanghai
Chapter 2: Germany's China Policy, Forced Emigration and the Search for Alternative Destinations
Chapter 3: "To Suffer a Martyr's Death Rather than Perish in Shanghai" or to "Die as Free Men in Shanghai"
Chapter 4: Strangers in Shanghai
Chapter 5: Years of Misfortune: 1941-1945
Chapter 6: End of War and the Jewish Exodus
In English