1st Edition
German-Speaking Jewish Refugees in Asia, 1930–1950 Shelter from the Storm?
1. Introduction
Joanne Miyang Cho, Eric Kurlander, and Doug McGetchin
Part I. German-Speaking Jewish Refugee Experience in China
2. Strange Havens? Shanghai, Yunnan, and Manchuria as East Asian “Solutions”
to the “Jewish Question,” 1933 – 1941
Eric Kurlander
3. Shanghai Refuge: Chinese and Japanese Responses to Jewish Exiles, 1933-1945
Wendy (Xiaoxue) Sun
4. The German-Jewish Refugee Experience in Wartime Shanghai and Contemporary Spaces of Memory
Thomas Pekar
5. Shanghai Sounds: Austro-German Jewish Refugee Musicians in the City “Upon the Sea” from 1938 to 1949
Hao Huang
6. American Dreams: Jewish Refugees, American Servicemen, and Chinese Locals in Post-World War II Shanghai
Kimberly Cheng
Part II. German-Speaking Jewish Refugee Experience in Japan
7. Transcending the Holocaust: Japanese Appreciation for Jewish German Cultural Intermediaries and Their Survival in Japan
Ricky W. Law
8. The German-Jewish Business Community in Tokyo-Yokohama and the Relief Efforts for Refugees from Europe
Christian W. Spang
9. Wiltrud Preibisch’s Japanese Diaries: A “Quarter Jew” in Japan, 1937-1944
Kerstin Potter
Part III. German-Speaking Jewish Refugee Experience in Southeast Asia
10. “Twice crushed within one decade”: Tracking Trajectories of Central European Jewish refugees and Relief Provision in the Philippines, 1938-1948
Simone Gigliotti
11. “Only Halting to Replenish Their Supplies of Fuel?” The German European Jewish Refugee Experience in the Dutch East Indies, 1933-1945
Liesbeth Rosen Jacobson
Part IV. German-Speaking Jewish Refugee Experience in South Asia
12. Cohn-Wiener's Holocaust Letters to Laserson: Testimony to the Birth of a Jewish Aesthetics for India
Tirtha Prasad Mukhopadhyay
13. An Aesthetic Hybridity: Walter Kaufmann’s Refuge in India during the Nazi Period
Shalva Weil
14. Affiliations, Entanglements and “Otherness”: The Experiences of German-speaking Jewish Refugees in India, 1938–1948
Joseph Cronin
15. Jewish Migration from Germany to British Ceylon in the Context of the Second World War: Orientalism and the Place of Ideas in the Migration Regime
Sebastian Musch
Biography
Joanne Miyang Cho is Professor of History at William Paterson University of New Jersey. Her recent publications include the edited volumes: Transnationalism and Migration in Modern Korea (2023), Musical Entanglements between Germany and East Asia (2021), East Asian-German Cinema (2021), and Sino-German Encounters (2021).
Eric Kurlander is William R. Kenan Jr. Professor of History and Director of Jewish Studies at Stetson University. His books include Modern Germany: A Global History (2023), Hitler’s Monsters: A Supernatural History of the Third Reich (2017), Living with Hitler: Liberal Democrats in the Third Reich (2009), and The Price of Exclusion: Ethnicity, National Identity and the Decline of German Liberalism (2006).
Doug McGetchin is Professor of World History at Florida Atlantic University. He is a Fulbright-Nehru Scholar whose books include Modern Germany: A Global History (2023), Gendered Encounters between Germany and Asia (2016), Transcultural Encounters between Germany and India (2014), Indology, Indomania, Orientalism (2009), and Sanskrit and “Orientalism” (2004).
