Another curious rediscovery is described in James Ross’ Escape To Shanghai: A Jewish Community in China (1994). This book, by the way, is quite comprehensive and full of exclusive details; it also gives an excellent summary of the relationship of Russian and European Jews in wartime Shanghai.

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This article was written in Russian for the bi-weekly series in Magazeta: https://magazeta.com/arc-synagogue/

The New Ashkenazi Synagogue also features on Building Russian Shanghai, in English.


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