TY - BOOK ID - 9351419 TI - Wartime Shanghai and the Jewish refugees from Central Europe : survival, co-existence, and identity in a multi-ethnic city PY - 2012 SN - 1280597666 9786613627490 3110268191 3110268183 3110267977 3110485680 PB - Boston : De Gruyter, DB - UniCat KW - China -- Politics and government -- 1937-1945. KW - Jewish refugees -- China -- Shanghai -- History -- 20th century. KW - Jews -- China -- Shanghai -- History -- 20th century. KW - Jews -- China -- Shanghai -- Social conditions -- 20th century. KW - Shanghai (China) -- Ethnic relations. KW - World War, 1939-1945 -- Refugees -- China -- Shanghai. KW - Jews KW - Jewish refugees KW - World War, 1939-1945 KW - Regions & Countries - Asia & the Middle East KW - History & Archaeology KW - Middle East KW - History KW - Social conditions KW - Refugees KW - China KW - Shanghai (China) KW - Politics and government KW - Ethnic relations. KW - European War, 1939-1945 KW - Second World War, 1939-1945 KW - World War 2, 1939-1945 KW - World War II, 1939-1945 KW - World War Two, 1939-1945 KW - WW II (World War, 1939-1945) KW - WWII (World War, 1939-1945) KW - Refugees, Jewish KW - Hebrews KW - Israelites KW - Jewish people KW - Jewry KW - Judaic people KW - Judaists KW - Shanghai KW - Changhaï (China) KW - Shang-hai (China) KW - Shang hai shi (China) KW - Shanghai Shi (China) KW - Shanghai Municipality (China) KW - Shanghai Shi ren min zheng fu (China) KW - Shankhaĭ (China) KW - Xangai (China) KW - 上海 (China) KW - Ṣămhayi (China) KW - History, Modern KW - Ethnology KW - Religious adherents KW - Semites KW - Judaism KW - Migrations KW - Jewry, Shanghai, Religion. KW - Chang-hai (China) KW - Schanghai (China) KW - 上海市(China) KW - 上海市人民政府 (China) KW - Шанхай (China) KW - Śangqai (China) UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:9351419 AB - The study discusses the history of the Jewish refugees within the Shanghai setting and its relationship to the two established Jewish communities, the Sephardi and Russian Jews. Attention is also focused on the cultural life of the refugees who used both German and Yiddish, and on their attempts to cope under Japanese occupation after the outbreak of the Pacific War. Differences of identity existed between Sephardi and Ashkenazi Jews, religious and secular, aside from linguistic and cultural differences. The study aims to understand the exile condition of the refugees and their amazing efforts ER -