Strange Haven

A JEWISH CHILDHOOD IN WARTIME SHANGHAI

Автор: Sigmund Tobias

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Корици: С меки корици

Издател: University of Illinois Press

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In the wake of Kristallnacht, November 9, 1938, Sigmund Tobias and his parents fled their home in Ge...

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Автор

Sigmund Tobias

Език

Английски език

Корици

Книга - С меки корици

Издадена

2008

страници

208

EAN

9780252076244

ISBN

0252076249

Enbook ID

04869488

Издател

University of Illinois Press

Теглоt

294

Размери

140 x 212 x 16

Пълно описание

In the wake of Kristallnacht, November 9, 1938, Sigmund Tobias and his parents fled their home in Germany and relocated to one of the few cities in the world that offered shelter without requiring a visa: the notorious pleasure capital, Shanghai. Seventeen thousand Jewish refugees flocked to Hongkew, a section of Shanghai ruled by the Japanese, and they created an active community that continued to exist through to the end of the war. Tobias' coming-of-age story unfolds within his descriptions of Jewish life in the exotic sanctuary of Shanghai. Depleted by disease and hunger, constantly struggling with primitive and crowded conditions, the refugees faced shortages of food, clothing, and medicine. Tobias also observes the under-life of Shanghai: the prostitution and black market profiteering, the brutal lives of the Chinese workers, the tensions between Chinese and Japanese during the war, and the paralyzing inflation and the approach of the communist 'liberators' afterward. Richly detailed, "Strange Haven" opens a little-documented chapter of the Holocaust and provides a fascinating glimpse of life for these foreigners in a foreign land. An epilogue describes the changes Tobias observed when he returned to Shanghai forty years later as a visiting professor.

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