Dr. Albert Einstein and his wife visited Shanghai in December 1922 and again in January 1923. Photo shows them arriving in Shanghai.

Dr. He Fengshan (Feng Shan Ho), Chinese Consul General in Vienna, Austria from 1938 to 1940, was one of the first diplomats to save Jews by issuing them life-saving visas to escape the Holocaust.

Heinz J. Cohn with his old ID card in Shanghai. He said: "I have my life to thank to the Chinese people, because if it weren't for them, I wouldn't be able to tell this story."

The late Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin visiting the Great Wall.

THE JEWS IN CHINA

Chief editor: Pan Guang

Publisher: China Intercontinental Press

Year of publication: 2007

ISBN: 978-7-5085-0750-7

Price: 248 yuan

Size: 230x297mm

Pages: 241

Contents:

I. Jews in Ancient China: The Case of Kaifeng

II. From Baghdad to Hong Kong and Shanghai: The Sephardi Experience

III. The Second Homeland: Russian (Ashkenazi) Jews in China

IV. Haven for Holocaust Victims from Nazi Europe

V. The Historical Pages of Traditional Friendship between the Chinese and Jewish People

VI. Jews in China: A Hot Topic of Academic Research and Public Interest

Features: The book is an extensive, mainly photographic record of the subject edited by Professor Pan Guang, an outstanding Chinese authority in the field. It covers, in successive sections, the centuries-old Jewish community in Kaifeng of which only a few, assimilated descendants are discernible today; the scores to hundreds of Baghdadi Jewish traders who settled in Hong Kong and Shanghai in the mid-19th century; the many thousands of Jewish migrants from the tsarist Russian empire and the Soviet Union who mounted to tens of thousands of refugees from the Nazi holocaust who flocked to Shanghai as a sole sanctuary in 1930s and early 1940s.