The history of the Shanghai Jews : new pathways of research / / editors : Kevin Ostoyich, Yun Xia

• Pubblicazione: Cham, Switzerland : , : Palgrave Macmillan, , [2022]; ©2022
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (313 pages)
• Disciplina: 361.53
• Soggetto topico: Jewish refugees; Jewish refugees - China - Shanghai - History - 20th century; Jews
• Persona (resp. second.): XiaYun <1982->; OstoyichKevin
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Intro -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- Notes on Contributors -- List of Figures -- Chapter 1: Introduction -- Part I: Placing the History of the Shanghai Jews within Various Historical Contexts -- Part II: Cultural Life of Refugees in Shanghai -- Part III: The Jews Sojourning in Shanghai after the War -- Part IV: Commemoration of the History of the Shanghai Jews -- Reflections on New Pathways -- References -- Part I: Placing the History of the Shanghai Jews within Various Historical Contexts -- Chapter 2: Jews in China and Their Contributions -- A Brief History -- Contributions -- Business -- Real Estate -- Services and Manufacturing Industries -- Culture and Art -- Political Activism -- Commemoration -- References -- Chapter 3: The German East Asiatic Society (OAG) in Shanghai, 1931-1945 -- Introduction -- Germans and Jews in Shanghai -- The OAG and Its Branch Group in Shanghai -- The OAG between Nazis and Jews -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 4: The Designated Area for Stateless Refugees in Shanghai: Exploring Aftereffects Using Unpublished Documents of Captain Toshiro Saneyoshi -- Discovery of the Saneyoshi Documents -- The Day after the Promulgation -- Reaction of the Russian Jews -- Foundation of SACRA -- Reaction of the German-Austrian Jewish Refugee Community -- Reaction of Polish Jewish Refugees -- Is the Word 'Ghetto' Appropriate? -- Individual Reactions to the Relocation Order -- Overview and Further Research -- References -- Part II: Cultural Life of Refugees in Shanghai -- Chapter 5: The Kadoorie School: Educating Refugee Children in Shanghai -- Creation of the SJYA School -- The School on Kinchow Road -- A New and Better School -- School and Community -- The Kadoorie School as Expression of Jewish Refugee Culture -- References -- Chapter 6: Bruno Loewenberg and the Lion Book Shop -- References. ; Part III: The Jews Sojourning in Shanghai after the War -- Chapter 7: "A Problem of Some Delicacy": Chinese Sovereignty, Jewish Refugees, and the West, 1945-1946 -- Early Warnings of Humanitarian Crisis for Jewish Refugees in Japanese-Controlled Shanghai -- The Scramble to Save the Starving and Ill Jewish Refugees -- Integrating Jewish Refugees in the Chinese National Reconstruction Efforts -- Conflict Resolved but Unsettled -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 8: The Plight of European Jewish Refugees in Post-Second World War Shanghai, August 1945-April 1948 -- JDC Directors' Perception of the European Refugees and Baghdadi and Russian Jews -- Caring for Refugees with the Support of UNRRA and IRO -- JDC Provides Housing and Shelter for the Refugees: Cooperation with CNRRA and Altercations with Chinese Residents -- Should the Refugees Stay or Leave? -- Jordan's Efforts to Facilitate Emigration from Shanghai -- Destination Preferences of Jewish Refugees in Shanghai -- Conclusions -- References -- Part IV: Commemoration of the History of the Shanghai Jews -- Chapter 9: Relative Resistance: Fascist Aryanization Practices and the Bond of Victimhood in the Antifascist Animation A Jewish Girl in Shanghai -- Jewish-Chinese Relations and Victory over Fascism in JGiS -- Wu Lin's Story among Holocaust Comics and Antifascist Animations -- Aryanization, Fascist Greed, and Jewish Studies in China -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 10: The Shanghai Jewish Refugees: History and Commemoration -- Locating Chinese Scholarship within the Historiography of the Shanghai Jews -- The Shanghai Jewish Refugees Museum -- The Center of Jewish Studies Shanghai -- An Evaluation of the Narrative -- References -- Index.
• Titolo autorizzato: The history of the Shanghai Jews
• ISBN: 3-031-13761-2
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910767501803321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Palgrave series in Asian German studies.