"An Uncertain Life in Another World": German and Austrian Jewish Refugee Life in Shanghai, 1938-1950
"An Uncertain Life in Another World": German and Austrian Jewish Refugee Life in Shanghai, 1938-1950
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2014
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Hyman, Elizabeth Rebecca
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Rozenblit, Marsha
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Between 1938 and 1941, 20,000 Eastern and Central European Jews fled to Shanghai. Through a close examination or memoirs and oral histories, I argue that the manner in which the refugees experiences the approximately twelve years (1938-1950) they spent in Shanghai was informed by their nationality, gender, and age. Further, I argue that the twelve years they spent in Shanghai eroded the refugee's behavioral, material, and emotional connections to their old lives in Germany and Austria until all they had left was language and memories.