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

By:

Eber, Irene, 1929-2019 [author.]

Material type: Text

TextSeries: New perspectives on modern Jewish history ; v. 1.Publisher: Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter, [2012]Copyright date: ©2012Description: 1 online resource (xiii, 245 pages) : illustrations, mapsContent type:

text

Media type:

computer

Carrier type:

online resource

ISBN:

9783110268188
3110268183
3110485680
9783110485684
9781280597664
1280597666

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Wartime Shanghai and the Jewish refugees from Central Europe.DDC classification:

940.53

LOC classification:

DS135.C5 .E25 2012

Other classification:

HIS022000
HIS022000

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EBSCOhost

Contents:

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.

Summary: 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.

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 227-240) and index.

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.