Voices from Shanghai : Jewish exiles in wartime China / edited, translated, & with an introduction by Irene Eber.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Eber, Irene, 1929-2019.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Jews--China--Shanghai--History--Sources.

Jews.

Jewish refugees--China--Shanghai--History--Sources.

Jewish refugees.

History.

Shanghai (China)--Ethnic relations--Sources.

Shanghai (China).

China--Shanghai.

Genre:

Sources.

Physical Description:

142 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2008.

Contents:

"A Rickshaw Coolie Dies on a Shanghai Dawn" (1935) / Meylekh Ravitch 29

Letter (1939) / Annie F. Witting 33

"Prologue" (1939) / Alfred Friedlaender 38

"Well, That Too Is Shanghai" (1939) / Egon Varro 42

"Peculiar Shanghai" (1940) / W. Y. Tonn 45

Letter (1940) / Annie F. Witting 49

"The Chinese Woman Dances" (1940) / Lotte Margot 56

"Three Countries Spat Me Out" (1941) / E. Simkhoni 59

"More Light" (1941) / Kurt Lewin 62

"And So It Begins..." (1941) / Yehoshua Rapoport 65

"The Lament of My Mother" (1941) / Yosl Mlotek 70

"My God, My God, Why Hast Thou Forsaken Me" (1942) / E. Simkhoni 73

"Sun in a Net" (1942) / Mordechai Rotenberg 75

"Shanghai" (1942) / Yosl Mlotek 78

"The Diligent Mason" (1942) / Karl Heinz Wolff 82

"Wandering" (1942) / Hermann Goldfarb 85

"Miniatures" (1942) / Jacob H. Fishman 87

"A Letter..." (1943) / Yosl Mlotek 89

Diary (excerpts, 1941-1943) / Yehoshua Rapoport 91

"Pins, Not for Me" (1944) / Anonymous 96

"A Poem About Shanghai Ghetto" (1945) / Yoni Fayn 98

"A Monkey Turned Human" (1945) / Herbert Zernik 104

In Fire and Flames: Diary of a Jewish Actress (excerpts, 1941-1945) / Shoshana Kahan 107

"The Weekly Salad" (1946) / Kurt Lewin 119

"A Wedding" (1947) / Jacob H. Fishman 121.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [133]-140) and index.

ISBN:

9780226181660

0226181669

OCLC:

213080531

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