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142 pages : 23 cm, \"When Hitler came to power and the German army began to sweep through Europe, almost 20,000 Jewish refugees fled to Shanghai. A 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 the 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 accounts make their English-language debut in this volume. A new take on Holocaust literature, Voices from Shanghai reveals how refugees attempted to pursue a life of creativity despite the hardships of exile.\"--Jacket, Includes bibliographical references (pages 133-140) and index

Author

Eber, Irene, 1929-2019

Publisher

Chicago : University of Chicago Press

Published

2008

Language

EN

ISBN

9781282239555

Subjects

History, Humanities