ISBN:
9783110268188
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (260 p.)
Year of publication:
2012
Series Statement:
New Perspectives on Modern Jewish History Ser. v.1
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als
DDC:
940.53
Keywords:
Jews -- China -- Shanghai -- History -- 20th century
;
Jews -- China -- Shanghai -- Social conditions -- 20th century
;
Jewish refugees -- China -- Shanghai -- History -- 20th century
;
World War, 1939-1945 -- Refugees -- China -- Shanghai
;
China -- Politics and government -- 1937-1945
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Shanghai (China) -- Ethnic relations
;
China Politics and government
;
1937-1945
;
Jewish refugees China
;
Shanghai
;
History
;
20th century
;
Jews China
;
Shanghai
;
History
;
20th century
;
Jews China
;
Shanghai
;
Social conditions
;
20th century
;
Shanghai (China) Ethnic relations
;
World War, 1939-1945 Refugees
;
China
;
Shanghai
;
Electronic books
Abstract:
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 to create a semblance of cultural life in a strange new world..
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