Table of Contents

• Preface, Rodger Citron
• Introduction: How Many Shanghai Jews Were There? Steve Hochstadt
• Shanghai before the War
• Shanghai Remembered: Recollections of Shanghai's Baghdadi Jews Maisie Meyer
• The Burak Family: The Migration of a Russian Jewish Family through the First Half of the Twentieth Century Anne Atkinson
• Russian Jews in Shanghai 1920–1950: New Life as Shanghailanders Liliane Willens
• Shanghai and the Holocaust
• Desperate Hopes, Shattered Dreams: The 1937 Shanghai–Manila Voyage of the "Gneisenau" and the Fate of European Jewry Jonathan Goldstein
• Diplomatic Rescue: Shanghai as a Means of Escape and Refuge Manli Ho
• 305/13 Kungping Road Lotte Marcus
• Survival in Shanghai 1939–1947 Evelyn Pike Rubin
• What I Learned from Shanghai Refugees Steve Hochstadt
• Chinese Responses to the Holocaust: Chinese Attitudes toward Jewish Refugees in the Late 1930s and Early 1940s Xu Xin
• Looking Back at Shanghai
• Imagined Geographies, Imagined Identities, Imagined Glocal Histories Dan Ben-Canaan
• Ephemeral Memories, Eternal Traumas and Evolving Classifications: Shanghai Jewish Refugees and Debates about Defining a Holocaust Survivor Gabrielle Abram
• Bibliography
• Index

About the Author

Steve Hochstadt taught history at Illinois College 2006-2016, after teaching at Bates College in Maine for 27 years. His grandparents escaped from Vienna to Shanghai in 1939, and his research focuses on the Holocaust. His book Exodus to Shanghai: Stories of Escape from the Third Reich, based on interviews with former refugees, is being translated into Chinese.