German-Speaking Jewish Refugees in Asia, 1930-1950

Shelter from the Storm?
1. Auflage 2025
ISBN: 978-1-032-84985-0
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 352 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 810 g

Reihe: Routledge Studies in Cultural History

Although most perished, hundreds of thousands of Central European Jews escaped the Holocaust; tens of thousands of these Jewish refugees ended up in East Asia, Southeast Asia, or South Asia. Taking a global and transnational approach, this volume examines the cultural, political, and socioeconomic encounters among and between Asian and European states and empires, Central European Jews, and Asians between 1930 and 1950, offering important case studies that address the policies toward and experiences of German-speaking Jews across East Asia, Southeast Asia, and South Asia.

The strength of this volume lies not only in its efforts to include multiple theoretical perspectives, which integrate German, Jewish, Asian, and Migration Studies, but also in the original empirical research on which it is based. Engaging directly with the rich and growing historiography on the origins, course, and consequences of the Holocaust in East, Southeast, and South Asia, this volume provides a framework in which we can better understand how global traditions of empire and colonialism matter in our efforts to understand the Holocaust, while indicating that Asian states and peoples were keenly aware of the so-called “Jewish Question” and made efforts, though widely differentiated, to provide shelter from the Nazi storm.

German-Speaking Jewish Refugees in Asia, 1930–1950 will appeal to students and scholars alike interested in the history of Jewish refugees in the twentieth century, as well as all those interested in the modern history of German-speaking Central Europe and Asia.

Zielgruppe

Academic

Autoren/Hrsg.

McGetchin, Douglas

Cho, Joanne Miyang

Kurlander, Eric

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte des Judentums (Diaspora)
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Asiatische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Weltgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Deutsche Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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 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

Lisbeth Rosen Jacobson

 

 

Part IV. German-speaking Jewish Refugee Experience in South Asia

 

12. The Holocaust Correspondences of Ernst Cohn-Wiener  and Maurice Laserson: Testimony to the Birth of a Jewish Aesthetics of Indian Art

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

Über Autor(innen)

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).