Book contents
- Jewish Communities in Modern Asia
- Reviews
- Jewish Communities in Modern Asia
- Copyright page
- Epigraph
- Contents
- Maps
- Figures
- Tables
- Contributors
- Acknowledgments
- Note on Translations and Conventions
- 1 Jewish Communities in Modern Asia
- Part i Central and North Asia: Old and New Communities in Russia’s Shadow
- Part ii South Asia: Identity and Culture in British and Independent India
- Part iii Southeast Asia: Colonial Legacies and Emerging Communities
- Part iv East Asia: Communities and Strife in the Sinosphere
- 11 The Jews of Shanghai
- 12 The Jewish Community of Harbin
- 13 Taiwan
- 14 Jews in Japan
- Part v Imaginary Asia: Lost Peoples and Invisible Communities
- Conclusion
- Bibliography
- Picture and Map Acknowledgments
- Index
11 - The Jews of Shanghai
The Emergence, Fall and Resurgence of East Asia’s Largest Jewish Community
from Part iv - East Asia: Communities and Strife in the Sinosphere
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 11 August 2023
- Jewish Communities in Modern Asia
- Reviews
- Jewish Communities in Modern Asia
- Copyright page
- Epigraph
- Contents
- Maps
- Figures
- Tables
- Contributors
- Acknowledgments
- Note on Translations and Conventions
- 1 Jewish Communities in Modern Asia
- Part i Central and North Asia: Old and New Communities in Russia’s Shadow
- Part ii South Asia: Identity and Culture in British and Independent India
- Part iii Southeast Asia: Colonial Legacies and Emerging Communities
- Part iv East Asia: Communities and Strife in the Sinosphere
- 11 The Jews of Shanghai
- 12 The Jewish Community of Harbin
- 13 Taiwan
- 14 Jews in Japan
- Part v Imaginary Asia: Lost Peoples and Invisible Communities
- Conclusion
- Bibliography
- Picture and Map Acknowledgments
- Index
Summary
This chapter deals with Shanghai – once East Asia’s biggest Jewish community. It emphasizes the diversity of the Jewish community, which emerged with the arrival of Baghdadi Jews in the mid-nineteenth century, was invigorated by the arrival of Russian Jews in the early twentieth century and then more than tripled with the influx of refugees from Central and Eastern Europe on the eve of the Pacific War. The chapter tracks the origins of the Jewish settlement in the city, examines the reasons for its rise and decline and explores the emergence of a new community of Jewish professionals and ex-pats during the last three decades.
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- Jewish Communities in Modern AsiaTheir Rise, Demise and Resurgence, pp. 207 - 226Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2023