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The History of the Shanghai Jews : New Pathways of Research, Paperback / softback Book

The History of the Shanghai Jews : New Pathways of Research Paperback / softback

Edited by Kevin Ostoyich, Yun Xia

Part of the Palgrave Series in Asian German Studies series

Paperback / softback

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This volume provides a historical narrative, historiographical reviews, and scholarly analyses by leading scholars throughout the world on the hitherto understudied topic of Shanghai Jewish refugees.

Few among the general public know that during the Second World War, approximately 16,000 to 20,000 Jews fled the Nazis, found unexpected refuge in Shanghai, and established a vibrant community there.

Though most of them left Shanghai soon after the conclusion of the war in 1945, years of sojourning among the Chinese and surviving under the Japanese occupation generated unique memories about the Second World War, lasting goodwill between the Chinese and Jews, and contested interpretations of this complex past.

The volume makes two major contributions to the studies of Shanghai Jewish refugees.

First, it reviews the present state of the historiography on this subject and critically assesses the ways in which the history is being researched and commemorated in China.

Second, it compiles scholarship produced by renowned scholars, who aim to rescue the history from isolated perspectives and look into the interaction between Jews, Chinese, and Japanese.

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