The History of the Shanghai Jews: New Pathways of Research

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	Chapter 4: The Designated Area for Stateless Refugees in Shanghai: Exploring Aftereffects Using Unpublished Documents of Captain Toshiro Saneyoshi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