Shanghai Jewish community

URI: https://gptkb.org/entity/Shanghai_Jewish_community

GPTKB entity

Statements (52)

Predicate	Object
gptkbp:instanceOf	gptkb:Jewish_community
gptkbp:businessModel	gptkb:Hardoon_family_enterprises gptkb:Kadoorie_family_enterprises gptkb:Sassoon_family_enterprises
gptkbp:country	gptkb:China
gptkbp:historicalPopulation	over 20,000 (at peak during WWII)
https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label	Shanghai Jewish community
gptkbp:language	gptkb:Chinese gptkb:Hebrew gptkb:Russian gptkb:Yiddish English
gptkbp:location	gptkb:Shanghai
gptkbp:notableEvent	gptkb:Establishment_of_Jewish_Refugee_Zone_(1943) gptkb:Japanese_occupation_of_Shanghai_(1937–1945) Support from American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee Shanghai Ghetto established by Japanese authorities Annual Hanukkah celebrations Annual Passover Seders Decline after 1949 Internment in Hongkou District Opening of Chabad House in Shanghai Postwar emigration to Israel, US, Australia Refuge for Jews during WWII Restoration of Ohel Moishe Synagogue Restoration of Ohel Rachel Synagogue Revival in 1990s and 2000s Visits by Israeli dignitaries
gptkbp:notableInstitution	gptkb:Ohel_Moishe_Synagogue gptkb:Ohel_Rachel_Synagogue gptkb:Shanghai_Jewish_School gptkb:Shanghai_Jewish_Refugees_Museum gptkb:Baoshan_Jewish_Cemetery gptkb:Kadoorie_School gptkb:Ohel_Moshe_Synagogue gptkb:Ohel_Yaakov_Synagogue
gptkbp:notablePerson	gptkb:Michael_Blumenthal gptkb:Ho_Feng-Shan gptkb:Laura_Margolis
gptkbp:notablePublication	gptkb:Der_Shanghai_Yiddishe_Post gptkb:Shanghai_Echo
gptkbp:notableRuler	gptkb:Shimon_Sholom_Kalish gptkb:Meir_Ashkenazi gptkb:Moshe_Greenberg
gptkbp:origin	19th century Sephardic Jews from Iraq and India European Jews fleeing the Holocaust Russian Jews fleeing pogroms
gptkbp:religion	gptkb:Judaism
gptkbp:status	small, active community
gptkbp:WWIIRefugeeNumber	about 18,000 European Jews
gptkbp:bfsParent	gptkb:History_of_Jews_in_China
gptkbp:bfsLayer	6