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A gallery in the Shanghai Jewish Refugees Museum. The museum’s website interprets China as a savior, and the Jews’ time in Shanghai as a universally pleasant one. It touts its cooperation with Jewish and Holocaust museums around the world, as well as developments in Sino-Israeli relations. Indeed, in 2008, the museum featured an exhibit dedicated to developments in that relationship. As politics move China and Israel closer together, the Jewish refugee community of Shanghai has a newfound place in Chinese and Israeli cultural and political memory; perhaps not an accurate one, but then, when have state constructions of the past ever lined up with the messy realities of history? All content derived from my original research as presented in my 2014 MA Thesis --> https://bit.ly/2CLCrnV. . . . #history #jewishhistory #holocausthistory #refugeehistory #immigrationhistory #china #chinesehistory #shanghai #memory #museums #politics #china #israel #jewishrefugeecommunityofshanghai #historicitywasalreadytaken #historyblogger #historylovers #historigram https://www.instagram.com/p/ByqjZ_eFROD/?igshid=1lo5nqyorhhqh

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Jewish refugees from Shanghai gather in New York, 1950. According to my Polish Jewish refugee grandmother, the "Shanghai Crowd" which formed in New York City in the post-war years was quite exclusive. Image courtesy of the Leo Baeck Institute. All content derived from my original research as presented in my 2014 MA Thesis --> https://bit.ly/2CLCrnV. . . . #history #jewishhistory #refugees #refugeehistory #immigrationhistory #holocausthistory #shanghai #jewishrefugeecommunityofshanghai #ushistory #immigrationpolicy #historicitywasalreadytaken #historyblogger #historylovers #historigram https://www.instagram.com/p/ByLVlXCFPB-/?igshid=qjlxvp7ar8e

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Jewish refugees arrive in San Francisco from Shanghai, c. 1945-1947. Image courtesy of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. All content derived from my original research as presented in my 2014 MA Thesis --> https://bit.ly/2CLCrnV. . . . #history #jewishhistory #refugees #refugeehistory #immigrationhistory #holocausthistory #shanghai #jewishrefugeecommunityofshanghai #ushistory #immigrationpolicy #historicitywasalreadytaken #historyblogger #historylovers #historigram https://www.instagram.com/p/Bxx3nKmFtI3/?igshid=gg3rmmoyca2

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Jewish refugees arrive in San Francisco from Shanghai, 1949. Image courtesy of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. All content derived from my original research as presented in my 2014 MA Thesis --> https://bit.ly/2CLCrnV. . . . #history #jewishhistory #refugees #refugeehistory #immigrationhistory #holocausthistory #shanghai #jewishrefugeecommunityofshanghai #ushistory #immigrationpolicy #historicitywasalreadytaken #historyblogger #historylovers #historigram https://www.instagram.com/p/Bxst0aEFDRT/?igshid=icc43p2nn6nb

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Entrance sign and facade of the Shanghai Jewish Refugees Museum. In 1991, China officially recognized the state of Israel. In 2004, the Ohel Moshe synagogue was listed as an architectural treasure of Shanghai. In 2007, the People’s Government of the Hongkew District budgeted for a full renovation of the synagogue in accordance with its original architectural drawings. When the renovation was complete, the government installed in the space the brand new Shanghai Jewish Refugees Museum. All content derived from my original research as presented in my 2014 MA Thesis --> https://bit.ly/2CLCrnV. . . . #history #jewishhistory #refugees #refugeehistory #immigrationhistory #china #chinesehistory #eastasianhistory #shanghai #jewishrefugeecommunityofshanghai #museums #historicitywasalreadytaken #historyblogger #historylovers #historigram https://www.instagram.com/p/ByoDDT9FmFH/?igshid=18bi016omyw45

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The Mueller family, separated in Shanghai by visa restrictions, are reunited in New York. They’d taken the last repatriation ship out of Shanghai in May, 1950. Image (front and back) courtesy of the American Jewish Historical Society. All content derived from my original research as presented in my 2014 MA Thesis --> https://bit.ly/2CLCrnV. . . . #history #jewishhistory #refugees #refugeehistory #immigrationhistory #holocausthistory #shanghai #jewishrefugeecommunityofshanghai #ushistory #immigrationpolicy #historicitywasalreadytaken #historyblogger #historylovers #historigram https://www.instagram.com/p/ByD6R8GF4yq/?igshid=19fh9ihxibh4s

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Jewish refugees setting out for the United States, December 1947. Image courtesy of Yad Vashem. The majority of the refugees sailed from Shanghai to San Francisco between 1947 and 1949. Although they began the process early, it took them at least two years to receive their visas. Sigmund Tobias wrote that when his family became American citizens, “It made us feel a little safer to become citizens of a powerful country like the United States after being stateless for so many years, when we felt that no nation cared whether we lived or died.” All content derived from my original research as presented in my 2014 MA Thesis --> https://bit.ly/2CLCrnV. . . . #history #jewishhistory #refugees #refugeehistory #immigrationhistory #shanghai #jewishrefugeecommunityofshanghai #ushistory #immigrationpolicy #historicitywasalreadytaken #historyblogger #historylovers #historigram https://www.instagram.com/p/BxiaR-dlZD6/?igshid=eo024xlcynhx

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The People’s Liberation Army marches through Shanghai, 1949. Image courtesy of VirtualShanghai.net. Mao Zedong’s People’s Liberation Army entered Shanghai on May 25, 1949, and won the mainland on December 10, 1949. General Chiang Kai Shek’s KMT, or, Nationalist, forces retreated to Taiwan. All content derived from my original research as presented in my 2014 MA Thesis --> https://bit.ly/2CLCrnV. . . . #history #jewishhistory #refugees #refugeehistory #immigrationhistory #china #chinesehistory #eastasianhistory #shanghai #chinesecivilwar #militaryhistory #jewishrefugeecommunityofshanghai #historicitywasalreadytaken #historyblogger #historylovers #historigram https://www.instagram.com/historicity_wasalreadytaken/p/BxIuwNWlaEz/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=vue96iy5qkkf