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Shanghai

Ernie Glaser with a posterboard of old photos he prepared for his 100th birthday party in March. (Photo/Sue Fishkoff)
Posted inUncategorized

At 100, East Bay man who survived WWII in Shanghai calls himself ‘lucky’

by Sue Fishkoff March 7, 2024March 7, 2024

“You’ll have lunch, yes?” Well, yes. Who doesn’t want lunch? When I arrive at Ernie Glaser’s home in Rossmoor, the retirement community in Walnut Creek, the table is already set […]

Jewish refugees arrive in San Francisco from Shanghai on the USS General M.C. Meigs, 1949 (Photo/Courtesy U.C. Berkeley Bancroft Library)
Posted inFrom the Archives

75 years ago this week: San Francisco was ‘Port of Hope’ for Jewish refugees from Shanghai

Maya Mirsky
(Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff) by Maya Mirsky August 17, 2022August 17, 2022
Hilda Namm, 94, survived Kristallnacht and the Shanghai ghetto before coming to the U.S. (Photo/Liz Harris)
Posted inHonoring the Survivors

A post-Kristallnacht escape by ‘the bravest person I know’

by Liz Harris March 26, 2020March 31, 2020
Jewish refugees arrive in San Francisco from Shanghai on the USS General M.C. Meigs, 1949 (Photo/Courtesy U.C. Berkeley Bancroft Library)
Posted inBay Area

Chinese food Kiddush and more as B’nai Emunah celebrates 70th anniversary

by J. Staff December 4, 2019December 5, 2019
(From left) Izzy Ullmann, Lisa Karpanty, Peter Ullmann, Shanghailander Ilse Ullmann, Dan Ullmann, Evelyne Kende, Ray Kende at Congregation B'nai Emunah, Sept. 8, 2019 (Photo/Gabriel Greschler)
Posted inBay Area

‘We Jews had nowhere to go’: Shanghailanders step into the spotlight to tell their stories

by Gabriel Greschler September 12, 2019September 23, 2019
Jewish refugees arrive in San Francisco from Shanghai, 1949. Second from left: fashion designer Ilie Wacs, who later cowrote a book about the Shanghai Jews. (Photo/United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of Ilie Wacs)
Posted inHistory

The last of the Shanghailanders, S.F.’s unique Holocaust refugee community

Maya Mirsky
(Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff) by Maya Mirsky September 14, 2018June 26, 2019
Posted inCulture

‘Diaspora’ collages create layers of meaning at library exhibit

Maya Mirsky
(Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff) by Maya Mirsky January 31, 2018January 30, 2018
Izzy Ullmann with the matriarch of a Tibetan family that helped her find a way to make Shabbat in China
Posted inFirst Person

Cobbling together a Jewish life in China, just like my grandparents

Izzy Ullmann by Izzy Ullmann August 16, 2017August 21, 2017
in the painting, a row of five founders hover above a scene of fog and the golden gate bridge. behind them is a world map with lines in different colors traced on it.
Posted inColumns, Jew in the Pew, Jewish Life

Dancing and candy at a shul founded by German Jews by way of Shanghai

David A.M. Wilensky
(Photo/Aaron Levy-Wolins)
J. The Jewish News of Northern California Staff Headshots. by David A.M. Wilensky May 3, 2017September 14, 2018

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