Shanghai studies have blossomed in recent years with the publication of monographs aimed at broadening our knowledge and understanding of this city's complex growth into a unique cosmopolitan metropolis and the centre of Chinese modernity between its opening as a treaty port in 1843 and the foundation of the People's Republic of China in 1949. Of the many foreign groups that sojourned and settled in the city, Jews - whether Baghdadi merchants, Russian refugees of the 1917 Revolution or Central European Jews displaced by Nazi persecution - have probably received the most attention in academic publications and in the media.
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