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Shanghai's Baghdadi Jews

A Collection of Biographical Reflections
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A compilation of biographical accounts from Shanghai's Baghdadi Jewish society offers insights into a remarkable community that lived through the crossroads of China's 20th-century history. Using previously unseen archival material, Meyer documents the rise and fall of larger-than-life personalities who witnessed the Sino-Japanese War, the Occupation of Shanghai and the Communists' rise to power. Photographs illustrate the lives of these people and the magnificent, cosmopolitan city they called home.
Dr. Maisie Meyer was born in Calcutta, India, and hails from a Baghdadi Jewish family. She has a PhD from the London School of Economics and has travelled the world to lecture on Baghdadi Jews in the eastern Diaspora. Her previous books include From the Rivers of Babylon to the Whangpoo: A Century of Sephardi Jewish Life in Shanghai. More information can be found at www.mjmeyer.org.uk.
"The narrative skill of the author, and the lucid prose flowing from her pen, belie the years of painstaking, dogged pursuance of source material, literally worldwide, all meticulously researched and scrupulously authenticated." Sephardi Bulletin
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