Shanghai Jewish Community Bibliography
July 2000
by Abigail Yasgur
Director, Librarian, Jewish Community Library of Los Angeles

Nearly 20,000 European refugees fled to Shanghai in the years 1938-1941. These years are revealed through the following books, videos, web site.

Jewish Community of Shanghai
V - 200 (Video)
Escape to the Rising Sun. National Center for Jewish Film, Les Films de la Memoire, [1990].

V &endash; 524 (Video)
Grossman, Joan and Rosdy, Paul. The Port Of Last Resort. Waltham, MA: National Center for Jewish Film, [1998].

DS 135 .C5 H46 1993
Heppner, Ernest G. Shanghai Refuge : a memoir of the World War II Jewish ghetto. Lincoln, NE: University of Nebraska Press, [1993].

DS 135 C5 K7 1987
Kranzler, David. Japanese, Nazis & Jews: the Jewish refugee community of Shanghai, 1938-1945. Paper. Hoboken, N.J: Ktav, [1988].

DS 135 .C5 L57x 1988
Lipschitz, Chaim U. The Shanghai Connection, edited by Sonia Winter, Hallie Cantor and Judy Bendet. New York: Maznaim, [1988].

DS 135 .C5 R67 1994
Ross, James R. Escape to Shanghai: a Jewish community in China. New York, N.Y: Macmillan, [1994].

(not yet cataloged)
Rubin, Evelyn Pike. Ghetto Shanghai. Shengold Publishing. [1993].

DS 135 .C5 T63
Tobias, Sigmund. Strange Haven : A Jewish Childhood in Wartime Shanghai. Urbana, IL: University of Illinois, [1999].

DS 135 C5 T64
Tokayer, Marvin and Swartz, Mary. The Fugu Plan; the untold story of the Japanese and the Jews during World War II. New York and London: Paddington Press Ltd, [1979].

WEBSITES:

1. www.shanghai-ed.com/tales/t-jews.htm
2. www.haruth.com/AsiaJewsShanghai.htm
3. www.chinajewish.org