German-Speaking Jewish Refugees in Asia, 19301950

Auteur

Joanne Miyang Cho is Professor of History at William Paterson University of New Jersey. Her recent publishers 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 most recent books include Modern Germany: A Global History (2023) and Hitler's Monsters: A Supernatural History of the Third Reich (2017).

Doug McGetchin, Associate Professor, World History, Florida Atlantic University, 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).

Texte du rabat

Engaging directly with the rich and growing historiography on the origins, course, and consequences of the Holocaust globally and in East, Southeast, and South Asia specifically, 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

Contenu

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, 19381948

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