Willy Tonn's Asia Seminar
The Asia Seminar was run by the scholar Willy Tonn (1902–1945), who founded it in 1943 and enriched the cultural and scholarly life in the so-called Shanghai Ghetto during the harsh wartime period.
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Shanghai Jewish Youth Association, 627 East Yuhuang Road, (Hongkou (now Dongyuhang Lu, Hongkou Qu) Shanghai
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Kranzler, David. “Restrictions Against German-Jewish Refugee Immigration to Shanghai in 1939.” Jewish Social Studies, vol. 36, no. 1, 1974, pp. 40–60.
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Walravens, Hartmut. “Martin Buber und Willy Tonn und ihre Beiträge zur Kenntnis der chinesischen Literatur.“ Monumenta Serica, 1994, vol. 42, 1994, pp. 465-481.
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Leo Baeck Institute, New York, Willy Tonn Collection.
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Hermann Schieberth was a successful photographer who had two studios in Austria (from 1909/10? onwards): one in Vienna and the other in Kaltenleutgeben. Due to his Jewish background he had to flee in 1938 and arrived in Shanghai in 1939.
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Hans Jacoby fled in 1938 to the Netherlands, where he was interned by the Dutch government in Hook of Holland. He was able to leave the camp and arrived, together with his wife Emma Jacoby, in Shanghai in 1940 where he continued to work as an artist.
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