SJI Spotlight
SJI Spotlight
Prof. Dan Ben-Canaan, author of Echoes of Harbin: Reflections on Space and Time, scholar of Harbin's Jewish history, and decades-long resident of Harbin.
Kristallnacht Talk & Port of Last Resort Film Screening
November 10, 2021 - No Birthday Party this Year: Kristallnacht within the Memories of Shanghai Jewish Refugees
The night of November 9-10, 1938 changed the lives of Jews in Germany forever. Using interview testimony he has collected over many years, Prof. Ostoyich discusses the role Kristallnacht (Night of Broken Glass) has played and continues to play in the memories of Shanghai Jewish refugees.
Lecture by Prof. Kevin Ostoyich, Valparaiso University
November 11, 2021 - Film Screening & Talk Shanghai: Port of Last Resort
Shanghai was a free port that did not require papers for entry, and became the “last resort” to find a safe haven from the Nazis. This lost world is revealed through the memories of four survivors, and through a collage of rare and remarkable film footage.
Organized by the Dept. of East Asian Studies - Japanese Studies at the University of Vienna, Austria
HK Jewish Film Festival & Jewish Life in Germany Exhibit
November 3-21, 2021
Established in 1999, The Hong Kong Jewish Film Festival was the first festival of its kind in Asia. Films dealing with Jewish identity, Yiddish classics, the Holocaust, Israel are among those highlighted in the films being shown during this, the Festival's 15th year!
Hong Kong Jewish Film Festival
Sponsored by the Asia Society - Hong Kong Center
November 11 - December 11 Exhibit: Jewish Life in Germany & Escape Destination Hong Kong
Co-organised by Goethe-Institut Hong Kong
Consulate General of the Federal Republic of Germany
Hong KongJüdisches Leben in Deutschland
Center for Persecuted Arts
The Hong Kong Heritage Project
Shanghai Safe Haven Exhibit & Jews in Kaifeng Talk
July 15, 2021 - Sept. 5, 2022 Shanghai: Safe Haven During the Holocaust Exhibit
Exhibit
Shanghai: Safe Haven During the Holocaust
Photographs from 1946 documenting Jewish Refugees in Shanghai by American photojournalist Arthur Rothstein
Illinois Holocaust Museum and Education Center
Northern Trust Gallery and The Joseph L. & Emily K. Gidwitz Memorial Foundation Gallery
June 3, 2021 - The Jews in Kaifeng: Yesterday and Today
In-Person Lecture by
Rabbi Anson Laytner
President of the Sino-Judaic Institute
The Jews in Kaifeng: Yesterday and Today
Sponsored by the University of Washington
Tateuchi East Asian Library
Jewish Story in China & Jewish Refugees in Shanghai Talks
October 21, 2021 - Lecture - In Search of a Jewish Story in China
Talk by Irene Shaland
In Search of a Jewish Story in China
In conjunction with the exhibition
Shanghai: Safe Haven During the Holocaust
Illinois Holocaust Museum & Education Center
June 13, 2021 - A History of Jewish Refugees in Shanghai
Zoom Talk
A History of Jewish Refugees in Shanghai
with Faith Goldman
Congregation Ner Tamid of South Bay
Rancho Palos Verdes, California
JewAsian Talk
May 26, 2021 - JewAsian: Race, Religion and Identity for America's Newest Jews
Webinar
JewAsian: Race, Religion, and Identityfor America's Newest Jews
by Co-Authors
Prof. Helen Kim and Noah Leavitt
Sponsored by the Hebrew Union College, the Chinese American Museum, the 1882 Foundation, and Jacob Rader Marcus Center of the American Jewish Archives
SJI Website Editors
SJI Website Editors
Editor-in-Chief Wendy Abraham
General Editor Kevin Ostoyich
Kaifeng History Wendy Abraham
Shanghai History Steve Hochstadt
Shanghai Travel Dvir Bar-Gal
