Language:
English
Year of publication:
2023
Titel der Quelle:
Jewish Communities in Modern Asia
Angaben zur Quelle:
(2023) 207-226
Keywords:
Jews History
;
Jews Social conditions
;
Jews History 19th century
;
Jews History 20th century
;
Shanghai (China)
Abstract:
This chapter deals with Shanghai – once East Asia’s biggest Jewish community. It emphasizes the diversity of the Jewish community, which emerged with the arrival of Baghdadi Jews in the mid-nineteenth century, was invigorated by the arrival of Russian Jews in the early twentieth century and then more than tripled with the influx of refugees from Central and Eastern Europe on the eve of the Pacific War. The chapter tracks the origins of the Jewish settlement in the city, examines the reasons for its rise and decline and explores the emergence of a new community of Jewish professionals and ex-pats during the last three decades.
DOI:
10.1017/9781009162609.013
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