Shanghai Echo - Daily Newspaper.

AUCTION 58 | Thursday, May 02nd, 2013 at 1:00
Fine Judaica: Printed Books, Manuscripts and Autograph Letters

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Lot 101
(CHINA).

Shanghai Echo - Daily Newspaper.

Numbers 178-264 (bound together in one volume). German text with occasional English and Hebrew. Brittle. Without boards. Folio. Sold not subject to return.

Shanghai: 1st July, 1947 - 30th September, 1947

Est: $700 - $900
PRICE REALIZED $700
Shanghai provided a safe haven for many Jewish refugees from a Europe that had been overrun by Germany’s Nazi hordes. Eventually, these Jews resettled elsewhere, but as late as 1947, there was an extremely active cultural and organizational presence as testified by the present newspaper.