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Jewish Refugees in Shanghai
Experiences, Memories, Interviews, Histories
Steve Hochstadt
366 pages, 37 illus., bibliog., index
ISBN 978-1-83695-467-5 $150.00/£115.00 / Hb / Published (April 2026)
eISBN 978-1-83695-468-2 eBook
Description
Between 1933 and 1942, around 20,000 refugees fled to Shanghai to escape Nazi-occupied Europe, most of them Jewish. Unable to assimilate into Chinese culture, the Jewish community spent years preserving their own culture and enduring harsh Japanese occupation in Shanghai, before dispersing around the world after the end of World War II. Steve Hochstadt, whose Viennese grandparents were among those who fled, tells their story by weaving together hundreds of sources and dozens of interviews into a series of compelling essays on this unique, but little-known rescue.
Steve Hochstadt retired in 2016 after a 37-year career teaching history at Illinois College and Bates College in Maine. His research focusses on migration in Germany and the Holocaust. He was awarded the Social Science History Association’s Allan Sharlin Memorial Award for his book Mobility and Modernity: Migration in Germany 1820-1989 (1999). He is also the author of Shanghai Geschichten (2007), Exodus to Shanghai (2012) and Death and Love in the Holocaust (2022).
Subject: Jewish StudiesGenocide HistoryHistory: 20th Century to PresentRefugee and Migration Studies
Area: Asia
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