162
It was clear when I gave the Ezekiel Abraham Memorial Lecture in 1987 that strong feelings still remained,
Kranzler, 745.
7 The Hankow Daily News July 13, 1917,
1.
Statistics differ. Even the Encyclopaedia Judaica gives different numbers on different pages. Without scrutinizing temple rolls, it is difficult to ascertain the number of Jews in Shanghai at a given time, but it can be estimated to be less than 2,000 from 1920 through the early 1930s.
David Kranzler gave the following figures: On 25 March, 1934, there were 1,671 Jewish adults and children in Shanghai (881 male and 790 female), including Sephardic Jews as well as the Ashkenazi community. A little more than ten years later, 14,245 persons (8,283 male, 5,962 female) were classified as Jewish refugees in Shanghai in November 1944. Of these, 8,114 had come from Germany, 1,248 from Poland, 3,942 from Austria, and 236 from Czechoslovakia. Between 1939 and 1946, there had been 418 births, 366 marriages, 104 divorces, and 1,726 deaths among the Jewish population in Shanghai.
40 Hans and Lala Diestel, respectably bourgeois before the Japanese occupation, ground assorted grains in their living-room by hand, using a Chinese millstone, selling the meal to the Red Cross for cash. Later on, they operated a factory making shoes, employing Jewish refugees. 'There was never any problem with raw materials,” related the indefatigable Mr Diestel, who was born in Tsingtao, 'because the Japanese thought that I was German.' Betty Peh-t'i Wei, Shanghai, Crucible of Modern China, Hong Kong, New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1987, 252.
" Conversation with Ezekiel Abraham in Hong Kong. Also, see Joseph and Lynn Silverstein, 'David Marshall and Jewish Emigration from China', China Quarterly, (London 1979).
12 The New York Times, 27 February, 1983.
13
Old Chronicle of Hong Kong November 1870.
14 Hong Kong Telegram 4 May, 1904. Shanghai dispatch.
15
Wei, 252.
16 The China Mail, 24 September, 1918,
17
I am sorry that I have lost the date of this issue of the Hong Kong newspaper.
10 His will was probated in Hong Kong in 1886.
19 Left Sassoon and Company 21 January, 1891
20
Merchant. His will, witnessed by Hardoon, was probated in 1893.
21 The obituary in the South China Morning Post. 8 August, 1979, identified Mrs Ezra as Mozelle Robinson Ezra of Shanghai. Edward Ezra and Mozelle Sopher were married in 1907
22 People's Daily (Beijing), 15 October, 1991, 2.
21
Chinese sources insist that he worked as a door keeper. At least he had control over accessibility to the boss
24
Complaints included members riding to services on the Sabbath and High Holy Days rather than travelling on foot
162
It was clear when I gave the Ezekiel Abraham Memorial Lecture in 1987 that strong feelings still remained,
Kranzler, 745.
7 The Hankow Daily News July 13, 1917,
1.
Statistics differ. Even the Encyclopaedia Judaica gives different numbers on different pages. Without scrutinizing temple rolls, it is difficult to ascertain the number of Jews in Shanghai at a given time, but it can be estimated to be less than 2,000 from 1920 through the early 1930s.
David Kranzler gave the following figures On 25 March, 1934, there were 1,671 Jewish adults and children in Shanghai (881 male and 790 female), including Sephardic Jews as well as the Ashkenazi community. A little more than ten years later, 14,245 persons (8,283 male, 5,283 female) were classified as Jewish refugees in Shanghal in November 1944. Of these, 8,114 had come from Germany, 1,248 from Poland, 3,942 from Austria, and 236 from Czechoslovakia. Between 1939 and 1946, there had been 418 births, 366 marriages, 104 divorces, and 1,726 deaths among the Jewish population in Shanghai. 40 Hans and Lala Diestel, respectably bourgeois before the Japanese occupation, ground assorted grains in their living-room by hand, using a Chinese millstone, selling the meal to the Red Cross for cash. Later on, they operated a factory making shoes, employing Jewish refugees. 'There was never any problem with raw materials,” related the indefatigable Mr Diestel, who was born in Tsingtao, 'because the Japanese thought that I was German.' Betty Peh-t'i Wei, Shanghai, Crucible of Modern China, Hong Kong, New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1987, 252.
" Conversation with Ezekiel Abraham in Hong Kong. Also, see Joseph and Lynn Silverstein, 'David Marshall and Jewish Emigration from China', China Quarterly, (London 1979).
12 The New York Times, 27 February, 1983.
13
Old Chronicle of Hong Kong November 1870.
14 Hong Kong Telegram 4 May, 1904. Shanghai dispatch.
15
Wei, 252.
16 The China Mail, 24 September, 1918,
17
I am sorry that I have lost the date of this issue of the Hong Kong newspaper.
10 His will was probated in Hong Kong in 1886.
19 Left Sassoon and Company 21 January, 1891
20
Merchant. His will, witnessed by Hardoon, was probated in 1893.
21 The obituary in the South China Morning Post. 8 August, 1979, identified Mrs Ezra as Mozelle Robinson Ezra of Shanghai. Edward Ezra and Mozelle Sopher were married In 1907
22 People's Daily (Beijing), 15 October, 1991, 2.
21
Chinese sources insist that he worked as a door keeper. At least he had control over accessibility to the boss
24
Complaints included members riding to services on the Sabbath and High Holy Days rather than travelling on foot
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