The History of the Shanghai Jews

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xix

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2. Introduction

   • Kevin Ostoyich, Yun Xia

   Pages 1-20

3. Placing the History of the Shanghai Jews within Various Historical Contexts

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 21-21

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   2. Jews in China and Their Contributions

      • Xu Xin

      Pages 23-42

   3. The German East Asiatic Society (OAG) in Shanghai, 1931–1945

      • Christian W. Spang

      Pages 43-73

   4. The Designated Area for Stateless Refugees in Shanghai: Exploring Aftereffects Using Unpublished Documents of Captain Toshiro Saneyoshi

      • Kenji Kanno

      Pages 75-96

4. Cultural Life of Refugees in Shanghai

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 97-97

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   2. The Kadoorie School: Educating Refugee Children in Shanghai

      • Steve Hochstadt

      Pages 99-131

   3. Bruno Loewenberg and the Lion Book Shop

      • Rachel E. Meller

      Pages 133-169

5. The Jews Sojourning in Shanghai after the War

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 171-171

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   2. “A Problem of Some Delicacy”: Chinese Sovereignty, Jewish Refugees, and the West, 1945–1946

      • Sara Halpern

      Pages 173-202

   3. The Plight of European Jewish Refugees in Post-Second World War Shanghai, August 1945–April 1948

      • Fred A. Lazin

      Pages 203-233

6. Commemoration of the History of the Shanghai Jews

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 235-235

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   2. Relative Resistance: Fascist Aryanization Practices and the Bond of Victimhood in the Antifascist Animation A Jewish Girl in Shanghai

      • Lee M. Roberts

      Pages 237-270

   3. The Shanghai Jewish Refugees: History and Commemoration

      • Yun Xia, Kevin Ostoyich

      Pages 271-288

7. Back Matter

   Pages 289-303

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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.

• Modern China
• Modern Japan
• Modern Germany
• Genocide Studies
• Jewish Studies
• Refugee Studies
• Memory Studies

• Department of History, Valparaiso University, Valparaiso, USA

  Kevin Ostoyich

• College of Liberal Arts, Shanghai University, Shanghai, China

  Yun Xia

Kevin Ostoyich is Professor of History at Valparaiso University, Indiana, USA.

Yun Xia is Professor of History at Shanghai University, China.

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