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Although most perished, hundreds of thousands of Central European Jews escaped the Holocaust; tens of thousands of these Jewish refugees ended up in East Asia, Southeast Asia, or South Asia. Taking a global and transnational approach, this volume examines the cultural, political, and socioeconomic encounters among and between Asian and European states and empires, Central European Jews, and Asians between 1930 and 1950, offering important case studies that address the policies toward and experiences of German-speaking Jews across East Asia, Southeast Asia, and South Asia. The strength of this volume lies not only in its efforts to include multiple theoretical perspectives, which integrate German, Jewish, Asian, and Migration Studies, but also in the original empirical research on which it is based. Engaging directly with the rich and growing historiography on the origins, course, and consequences of the Holocaust in East, Southeast, and South Asia, this volume provides a framework in which we can better understand how global traditions of empire and colonialism matter in our efforts to understand the Holocaust, while indicating that Asian states and peoples were keenly aware of the so-called “Jewish Question” and made efforts, though widely differentiated, to provide shelter from the Nazi storm. German-Speaking Jewish Refugees in Asia, 1930–1950 will appeal to students and scholars alike interested in the history of Jewish refugees in the twentieth century, as well as all those interested in the modern history of German-speaking Central Europe and Asia.

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Author:   Joanne Miyang Cho (William Paterson University, USA) ,  Eric Kurlander ,  Douglas McGetchin
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Weight:   0.810kg
ISBN:  

9781032849850

ISBN 10:   1032849851
Pages:   338
Publication Date:   30 March 2025
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

1. Introduction Joanne Miyang Cho, Eric Kurlander, and Doug McGetchin Part I. German-speaking Jewish Refugee Experience in China 2. Strange Havens? Shanghai, Yunnan, and Manchuria as East Asian “Solutions” to the “Jewish Question,” 1933 – 1941 Eric Kurlander 3. Shanghai Refuge: Chinese and Japanese Responses to Jewish Exiles, 1933-1945 Wendy (Xiaoxue) Sun 4. The German-Jewish Refugee Experience in Wartime Shanghai and Contemporary Spaces of Memory Thomas Pekar 5. Shanghai Sounds: Austro-German Jewish Refugee Musicians in the City “Upon the Sea” from 1938 to 1949 Hao Huang 6. American Dreams: Jewish Refugees, American Servicemen, and Chinese Locals in Post-World War II Shanghai Kimberly Cheng Part II. German-speaking Jewish Refugee Experience in Japan 7. Transcending the Holocaust: Japanese Appreciation for Jewish German Cultural Intermediaries and Their Survival in Japan Ricky Law 8. The German-Jewish Business Community in Tokyo-Yokohama and the Relief Efforts for Refugees from Europe Christian W. Spang 9. Wiltrud Preibisch’s Japanese Diaries: A “quarter Jew” in Japan, 1937-1944 Kerstin Potter Part III. German-speaking Jewish Refugee Experience in Southeast Asia 10. “Twice crushed within one decade”: Tracking Trajectories of Central European Jewish refugees and Relief Provision in the Philippines, 1938-1948 Simone Gigliotti 11. “Only Halting to Replenish Their Supplies of Fuel?” The German European Jewish Refugee Experience in the Dutch East Indies, 1933-1945 Lisbeth Rosen Jacobson Part IV. German-speaking Jewish Refugee Experience in South Asia 12. The Holocaust Correspondences of Ernst Cohn-Wiener and Maurice Laserson: Testimony to the Birth of a Jewish Aesthetics of Indian Art Tirtha Prasad Mukhopadhyay 13. An Aesthetic Hybridity: Walter Kaufmann’s Refuge in India during the Nazi Period Shalva Weil 14. Affiliations, Entanglements and “Otherness”: The Experiences of German-speaking Jewish Refugees in India, 1938–1948 Joseph Cronin 15. Jewish Migration from Germany to British Ceylon in the Context of the Second World War: Orientalism and the Place of Ideas in the Migration Regime Sebastian Musch

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Joanne Miyang Cho is Professor of History at William Paterson University of New Jersey. Her recent publications include the edited volumes: Transnationalism and Migration in Modern Korea (2023), Musical Entanglements between Germany and East Asia (2021), East Asian-German Cinema (2021), and Sino-German Encounters (2021). Eric Kurlander is William R. Kenan Jr. Professor of History and Director of Jewish Studies at Stetson University. His books include Modern Germany: A Global History (2023), Hitler’s Monsters: A Supernatural History of the Third Reich (2017), Living with Hitler: Liberal Democrats in the Third Reich (2009), and The Price of Exclusion: Ethnicity, National Identity and the Decline of German Liberalism (2006). Doug McGetchin is Professor of World History at Florida Atlantic University. He is a Fulbright-Nehru Scholar whose books include Modern Germany: A Global History (2023), Gendered Encounters between Germany and Asia (2016), Transcultural Encounters between Germany and India (2014), Indology, Indomania, Orientalism (2009), and Sanskrit and “Orientalism” (2004).

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