Wartime Shanghai And The Jewish Refugees From Central Europe —— Survival, Co-Existence, and Identity in a Multi-Ethnic City

----- 战时上海和来自中欧的犹太难民：多民族的城市中的生存，共存和身份

ISBN: 9783110267976 出版年：2012 页码：260 Eber, Irene De Gruyter

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 to create a semblance of cultural life in a strange new world.