Publisher's Synopsis
When Hitler came to power and German troops began to sweep Europe, nearly 20,000 Central European Jewish refugees fled to Shanghai. This book collects letters, diaries, poems and short stories written by Jewish refugees in the years after they landed in China. It reproduces their mental journey of struggling to make a living across the barriers of language, culture, belief system and national tradition, and reveals the severe challenges faced by the Shanghai Jewish community due to differences in economic status, belief level and class origin.
