Voices from Shanghai by Irene Eber

Voices from Shanghai by Irene Eber

When Hitler came to power and the German army began to sweep through Europe, almost 20,000 Jewish refugees fled to Shanghai. A remarkable collection of the letters, diary entries, poems, and short stories composed by these refugees in the years after they landed in China, "Voices from Shanghai" fills a gap in our historical understanding of what happened to so many Jews who were forced to board the first ship bound for anywhere.Once they arrived, the refugees learned to navigate the various languages, belief systems, and ethnic traditions they encountered in an already booming international city and faced challenges within their own community based on disparities in socioeconomic status, levels of religious observance, urban or rural origin, and philosophical differences. Recovered from archives, private collections, and now-defunct newspapers, these fascinating accounts make their English-language debut in this volume. A rich new take on Holocaust literature, "Voices from Shanghai" reveals how refugees attempted to pursue a life of creativity despite the hardships of exile.

"Irene Eber's Voices from Shanghai is a unique document in the annals of Holocaust literatureThe literary testimonies by Expressionist writers of the enchanting and also tortured mingling of Chinese and European culture that characterized Shanghai during World War II opens up for us a forgotten chapter of the Holocaust. I am confident that this book will be favorably received by scholars of China and the Holocaust as well as the wider reading public." - Paul Mendes-Flohr, University of Chicago"

Irene Eber is the Louis Frieberg Professor of East Asian Studies Emeritus at Hebrew University of Jerusalem. She is the author of many books, including a memoir entitled The Choice: Poland, 1939-1945.

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ISBN 13	9780226181660
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Titel	Voices from Shanghai
Autor	Irene Eber
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Verlag	The University of Chicago Press
Erscheinungsjahr	2008-10-01
Seitenanzahl	144
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