Steve Hochstadt
Steven Lawrence Hochstadt (born August 30, 1948 ) is an American historian .
Hochstadt is a professor of history at Illinois College in Jacksonville , Illinois . He has been on the faculty since 2006, prior to which he taught at Bates College , Maine for 27 years . His grandmother, a Jewish German who escaped the Holocaust by emigrating to Shanghai, aroused his interest in Jewish emigrants to Asia. He conducted interviews with over 100 former Shanghai residents who now live in the US and Europe . Building on his studies, he wrote numerous books about the Holocaust and in particular about the Jewish refugees in Asia. In addition, Hochstadt is a member of the Sino-Judaic Institute, an NGO with the aim of collaborative collaboration in cultural and historical areas between Chinese and Jews .
literature
- Mobility and Modernity. Migration in Germany. 1820-1989 . University of Michigan Press, Ann Arbor 1999, ISBN 0-472-10944-8
- as editor: Sources of the Holocaust . Palgrave Macmillan, New York [et al.] 2004, ISBN 0-333-96345-8 , ISBN 0-333-96344-X
- Shanghai stories. The Jewish Flight to China . Hentrich & Hentrich, Teetz / Berlin 2007, ISBN 978-3-938485-50-7
Web links
- Literature by and about Steve Hochstadt in the catalog of the German National Library
- Rachel Silverman: Recording Jews' Oral Histories .
- Dr. Hochstadt expands his Holocaust studies
- Book Review Steve Hochstadt. Mobility and Modernity: Migration in Germany, 1820–1989
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Hochstadt, Steve |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Hochstadt, Steven Lawrence |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American historian |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 30, 1948 |