Steve Hochstadt taught history at Illinois College 2006-2016, after teaching at Bates College in Maine for 27 years. His grandparents escaped from Vienna to Shanghai in 1939, and his research focuses on the Holocaust. His book Exodus to Shanghai: Stories of Escape from the Third Reich, based on interviews with former refugees, is being translated into Chinese.

Preface
Rodger Citron

Introduction: How Many Shanghai Jews Were There?
Steve Hochstadt

Shanghai before the War

Shanghai Remembered: Recollections of Shanghais Baghdadi Jews
Maisie Meyer

The Burak Family: The Migration of a Russian Jewish Family through the First Half of the Twentieth Century
Anne Atkinson

Russian Jews in Shanghai 19201950: New Life as Shanghailanders
Liliane Willens

Shanghai and the Holocaust

Desperate Hopes, Shattered Dreams: The 1937 ShanghaiManila Voyage of the Gneisenaü and the Fate of European Jewry
Jonathan Goldstein

Diplomatic Rescue: Shanghai as a Means of Escape and Refuge
Manli Ho

305/13 Kungping Road
Lotte Marcus

Survival in Shanghai 19391947
Evelyn Pike Rubin

What I Learned from Shanghai Refugees
Steve Hochstadt

Chinese Responses to the Holocaust: Chinese Attitudes toward Jewish Refugees in the Late 1930s and Early 1940s
Xu Xin

Looking Back at Shanghai

Imagined Geographies, Imagined Identities, Imagined Glocal Histories
Dan Ben-Canaan

Ephemeral Memories, Eternal Traumas and Evolving Classifications: Shanghai Jewish Refugees and Debates about Defining a Holocaust Survivor
Gabrielle Abram

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