Overview

Between 1933 and 1942, around 20,000 refugees fled to Shanghai to escape Nazi-occupied Europe, most of them Jewish. Unable to assimilate into Chinese culture, the Jewish community spent a decade preserving their own culture and enduring harsh Japanese occupation in Shanghai, before dispersing around the world after the end of World War II. Steve Hochstadt, whose Viennese grandparents were among those who fled, tells their story by weaving together hundreds of sources and dozens of interviews into a series of compelling essays on this unique, but little-known rescue.

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Author:   Steve Hochstadt
Publisher:   Berghahn Books
Imprint:   Berghahn Books
ISBN:  

9781836954675

ISBN 10:   1836954670
Pages:   366
Publication Date:   15 April 2026
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

List of Illustrations Acknowledgements Preface Introduction: A Seder in Shanghai Part I: Experiences in Shanghai Chapter 1. The Hochstädt Family of Refugees Chapter 2. Shanghai: A Last Resort for Desperate Jews Chapter 3. Counting Shanghai Refugees Chapter 4. Who Became Refugees? The Demography of the Shanghai Refugees Chapter 5. One Day in Shanghai: June 22, 1939 Part II: Memories of Shanghai Chapter 6. At the Last Minute: Shanghai Refugees Remember Their Flight from Germany Chapter 7. Memories and Memoirs of Shanghai Chapter 8. Rickshaw Reunion in San Francisco Chapter 9. Refugees and Natives in Shanghai: The Portrait of the Chinese in Jewish Refugee Memory Part III: Holocaust Interviews and Holocaust Research Chapter 10. Oral History and the Holocaust: The Necessity of Interviewing Survivors Chapter 11. Using Survivor Interviews Systematically: Social Science and the Holocaust Chapter 12. From Interview to History: Transcription, Editing, and Lost Meaning in Holocaust Interviews Part IV: Competing Histories Chapter 13. Jewish Studies in China Chapter 14. The Chinese History of Shanghai Refugees Conclusion: The Future History of Shanghai Refugees Epilogue References

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Steve Hochstadt retired in 2016 after a 37-year career teaching history at Illinois College and Bates College in Maine. His research focusses on migration in Germany and the Holocaust. He was awarded the Social Science History Association’s Allan Sharlin Memorial Award for his book Mobility and Modernity: Migration in Germany 1820-1989 (1999). He is also the author of Shanghai Geschichten (2007), Exodus to Shanghai (2012) and Death and Love in the Holocaust (2022).

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