Shanghai Remembered...: Stories of Jews Who Escaped to Shanghai from Nazi Europe [Hardcover]

Berl Falbaum (Editor)

Editorial Reviews

Review

"Expertly assembled, it is one of the best and most valuable Shanghai refugee books yet." -- W. Michael Blumenthal, Secretary of the Treasury under President Jimmy Carter and a former Shanghai refugee

"Fascinating and vivid accounts and recollections of Jewish refugees' experiences in war-time Shanghai." -- Xu Xin, Professor of History of Jewish Culture at Nanjing University

About the Author

Berl Falbaum was born in Berlin and escaped with his parents to Shanghai in July 1939. The family immigrated to the United States in August 1948.

Falbaum spent 10 years as a reporter at the Detroit News, including five covering politics; four years as administrative aide to Michigan’s lieutenant governor; and 15 years as a corporate public relations executive. In 1989, he founded Falbaum & Associates, Inc., a public relations firm.

His articles on politics and the media appear frequently in the pages of various Michigan newspapers. He taught journalism for 15 years at Oakland University and has taught part-time at Wayne State University since 1968.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 229 pages
• Publisher: Momentum Books, LLC; 1st ed edition (January 2005)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1879094738
• ISBN-13: 978-1879094734
• Product Dimensions: 9.2 x 6.2 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.1 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,413,522 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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12 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Personal, Intense and Enlightening, May 9, 2005

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William M. Brodhead "Avid Reader" (W. Bloomfield, Michigan) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Shanghai Remembered...: Stories of Jews Who Escaped to Shanghai from Nazi Europe (Hardcover)

I loved this book. I did not realize that more than 20,000 Jews had escaped to Shanghai from Nazi Germany in the late 1930's. In this this book, a dozen or so of these refugees tell their stories in a very personal way. In this book, we get inside the homes, heads and hearts of the people who went through this incredible experience. Most of the book is about how these Europeans coped first with life in China and later with the Japanese occupation of Shanghai. Despite their tribulations, the refugees managed to make new lives for themselves, to raise their children and create a community life as well. It is an inspiring story, very well told.

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Shanghai Remembered...:Stories of Jews Who Escaped To Shanghai From Nazi Europe, September 29, 2005

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This review is from: Shanghai Remembered...: Stories of Jews Who Escaped to Shanghai from Nazi Europe (Hardcover)

This review is written from one who also escaped to Shanghai from Nazi Europe and lived the same life as told by those interviewed for this book. Being personally acquainted with several of the individuals telling their story, made it even more interesting for me. It is a factual telling of what we, by that I mean our parents, left behind when fleeing Europe, arriving in a foreign land with no language skills and no money. It acquaints the world with facts seldom known, that indeed approximately 20,000 Jews fleeing Nazi Europe had only one destination open to them, that being Shanghai, China. It is fast paced and reads easily.
Doris Fogel

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Favorably depicts the individual stories of many Jewish refugees and their journey in unfamiliar territory, March 2, 2006

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Shangai Remembered: Stories Of Jews Who Escaped To Shanghai From Nazi Europe is an competently compiled, organized and edited documentation of the Jewish escapees by Berl Falbaum. Shangai Remembered favorably depicts the individual stories of many Jewish refugees and their journey in unfamiliar territory as a result of the Nazi empowerment during and before the second World War. As a strong recommendation to all scholars of Jewish history, as well as students of World War II in general, Shangai Remembered is to be given high praise for its outstanding content and a strong recommendation for inclusion into academic and community library 20th Century History and Judaic Studies collections.