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Port of Last Resort
By:Marcia Reynders Ristaino
Published on 2003-11 by Stanford University Press

This book examines two large and generally overlooked diaspora communities, one Jewish, the other Slavic, who found refuge in Shanghai during the tumultuous first half of the twentieth century.

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