Wartime Shanghai and the Jewish refugees from Central Europe [[electronic resource] ] : survival, co-existence, and identity in a multi-ethnic city / / Irene Eber
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| Autore: |
Eber Irene <1929-2019>
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| Titolo: |
Wartime Shanghai and the Jewish refugees from Central Europe [[electronic resource] ] : survival, co-existence, and identity in a multi-ethnic city / / Irene Eber
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| Pubblicazione: | Boston, : De Gruyter, 2012 |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (260 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 940.53/145089924051132 |
| Soggetto topico: | 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 | |
| Soggetto geografico: | China Politics and government 1937-1945 |
| Shanghai (China) Ethnic relations | |
| Soggetto non controllato: | Jewry, Shanghai, Religion |
| Classificazione: | NQ 2360 |
| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | Frontmatter -- Acknowledgments -- Table of Contents -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- Chapter 1: Shanghai -- Chapter 2: Germany's China Policy, Forced Emigration and the Search for Alternative Destinations -- Chapter 3: "To Suffer a Martyr's Death Rather than Perish in Shanghai" or to "Die as Free Men in Shanghai" -- Chapter 4: Strangers in Shanghai -- Chapter 5: Years of Misfortune: 1941-1945 -- Chapter 6: End of War and the Jewish Exodus -- Some Final Remarks -- Appendices -- Bibliography -- Index of Persons |
| Sommario/riassunto: | 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 |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Wartime Shanghai and the Jewish refugees from Central Europe |
| ISBN: | 1-280-59766-6 |
| 9786613627490 | |
| 3-11-026819-1 | |
| 3-11-026818-3 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910168749103321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
| Opac: | Controlla la disponibilità qui |
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New perspectives on modern Jewish history ; ; v. 1.