Language:
English
Year of publication:
2022
Titel der Quelle:
The History of the Shanghai Jews
Angaben zur Quelle:
(2022) 43-73
Keywords:
Deutsche Gesellschaft für Natur- und Völkerkunde Ostasiens
;
Learned institutions and societies
;
Germans History
;
Jews History
;
Germany Foreign relations
;
China Foreign relations
Abstract:
This chapter examines the history of the German East Asiatic Society (OAG), which was established in 1873 in Tokyo and was the German answer to the foundation of the British-dominated Asiatic Society of Japan, created one year earlier. Studying local OAG activities offers new insights on the history of Shanghai in the 1930s and 1940s, particularly given that Germans (combined with Austrians after the Anschluss of 1938) constituted one of the biggest groups within the expatriate community. The chapter provides an introduction to the German community and the different Jewish groups in Shanghai, as well as a summary of the history of the OAG and its interactions with the local Nazi institutions.
DOI:
10.1007/978-3-031-13761-7_3
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