German-Speaking Jewish Refugees in Asia, 1930–1950

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).

• 1. IntroductionJoanne Miyang Cho, Eric Kurlander, and Doug McGetchin Part I. German-speaking Jewish Refugee Experience in China2. Strange Havens? Shanghai, Yunnan, and Manchuria as East Asian “Solutions” to the “Jewish Question,” 1933 – 1941Eric Kurlander3. Shanghai Refuge: Chinese and Japanese Responses to Jewish Exiles, 1933-1945Wendy (Xiaoxue) Sun4. The German-Jewish Refugee Experience in Wartime Shanghai and Contemporary Spaces of MemoryThomas Pekar5. Shanghai Sounds: Austro-German Jewish Refugee Musicians in the City “Upon the Sea” from 1938 to 1949Hao Huang6. American Dreams: Jewish Refugees, American Servicemen, and Chinese Locals in Post-World War II Shanghai Kimberly ChengPart II. German-speaking Jewish Refugee Experience in Japan 7. Transcending the Holocaust: Japanese Appreciation for Jewish German Cultural Intermediaries and Their Survival in JapanRicky Law8. The German-Jewish Business Community in Tokyo-Yokohama and the Relief Efforts for Refugees from EuropeChristian W. Spang9. Wiltrud Preibisch’s Japanese Diaries: A “quarter Jew” in Japan, 1937-1944 Kerstin PotterPart III. German-speaking Jewish Refugee Experience in Southeast Asia10. “Twice crushed within one decade”: Tracking Trajectories of Central European Jewish refugees and Relief Provision in the Philippines, 1938-1948Simone Gigliotti11. “Only Halting to Replenish Their Supplies of Fuel?” The German European Jewish Refugee Experience in the Dutch East Indies, 1933-1945Lisbeth Rosen JacobsonPart IV. German-speaking Jewish Refugee Experience in South Asia12. The Holocaust Correspondences of Ernst Cohn-Wiener and Maurice Laserson: Testimony to the Birth of a Jewish Aesthetics of Indian ArtTirtha Prasad Mukhopadhyay13. An Aesthetic Hybridity: Walter Kaufmann’s Refuge in India during the Nazi PeriodShalva Weil14. Affiliations, Entanglements and “Otherness”: The Experiences of German-speaking Jewish Refugees in India, 1938–1948Joseph Cronin15. Jewish Migration from Germany to British Ceylon in the Context of the Second World War: Orientalism and the Place of Ideas in the Migration RegimeSebastian Musch