Steve Hochstadt

Steven Lawrence Hochstadt (born 1948) ^[1] is a professor emeritus of history at Illinois College in Jacksonville, Illinois. ^[2] He has done extensive research on Jewish refugees who fled to Shanghai. Influenced by his grandparents, Viennese Jews who fled the Holocaust and immigrated to Shanghai, ^[3] Hochstadt conducted 100 interviews with former refugees living in the United States and Europe. Based on his studies he wrote several books about the Holocaust and especially about Jewish refugees in Asia. ^[4]

Education and career

Hochstadt earned a bachelor's degree in mathematics in 1971 from Brown University, and later returned to Brown for his Ph.D. in history. ^[2] His 1983 doctoral dissertation, Migration in Germany: an historical study, was supervised by R. Burr Litchfield. ^[5]

He taught at Bates College in Maine from 1979 until 2006, ^[1] when he joined the Illinois College faculty. ^{[1] [2]} He retired as a professor emeritus in 2014. ^[2]

Books

Hochstadt's books include:

• Mobility and Modernity: Migration in Germany, 1820–1989 (University of Michigan Press, 1999) ^[6]
• Sources of the Holocaust (edited, Palgrave Macmillan, 2004) ^[7]
• Shanghai-Geschichten: Die jüdische Flucht nach China (Hentrich and Hentrich, 2007) ^[8]
• Exodus to Shanghai: Stories of Escape from the Third Reich (Palgrave Macmillan, 2012) ^[9]
• A Century of Jewish Life in Shanghai (edited, Academic Studies Press, 2019) ^[10]
• Freedom of the Press in Small-Town America: My Opinions (Atlantic Publishing, 2020)
• Death and Love in the Holocaust: The Story of Sonja and Kurt Messerschmidt (Academic Studies Press, 2022)

References

1. "Steve Hochstadt papers". Edmund S. Muskie Archives and Special Collections Library. Bates College. Retrieved November 5, 2023.
2. "Emeriti faculty". Catalog & Student Handbook. Illinois College. Retrieved November 5, 2023.
3. "The Horror Hits Home in History 229". Bates Magazine. Summer 1996. Retrieved November 5, 2023.
4. Silverman, Rachel (September 22, 2006). "Recording Jews' oral histories". Jewish News of Greater Phoenix Online. Archived from the original on June 9, 2011. Retrieved July 23, 2009.
5. "Authors beginning with H". Theses & Dissertations. Brown University Library. Retrieved November 8, 2023.; Hochstadt, Steven Lawrence (1983). Migration in Germany: an historical study (Doctoral dissertation). Brown University.
6. Reviews of Mobility and Modernity:
   • Frank Buscher, German Studies Review, JSTOR   1432885
   • Dirk Hoerder, "Migration in Germany", The International History Review, JSTOR   40109170
   • William H. Hubbard, German Politics & Society, JSTOR   23740603
   • Walter F. Kamphoefner, Journal of Social History, doi:10.1353/jsh.2001.0056, JSTOR   3789434
   • Leo Lucassen, International Review of Social History, doi:10.1017/S0020859099640500, JSTOR   44582520
   • Jean H. Quataert, The American Historical Review, doi:10.1086/ahr/106.4.1480, JSTOR   2693132
   • Frank B. Tipton, Central European History, doi:10.1017/S0008938900007883, JSTOR   4547192
   • John Torpey, The Journal of Interdisciplinary History, doi:10.1162/jinh.2000.31.2.281, JSTOR   207166
7. Reviews of Sources of the Holocaust:
   • Lee Baker, German Studies Review, JSTOR   30038270
   • Ben Lieberman, European History Quarterly, doi:10.1177/026569140603600218
   • Eric Sterling, H-net,
   • William Tannenbaum, H-net,
8. Review of Shanghai-Geschichten:
   • Christiane Hoss, "Auf Nimmerwiedersehen, Shanghai! Aber wohin?", Mitgliederrundbrief,
9. Reviews of Exodus to Shanghai:
   • Rose Holmes, Jewish Culture and History, doi:10.1080/1462169X.2014.921439
   • Thoralf Klein, German Historical Institute London Bulletin,
   • Peter Monteath, Central European History, doi:10.1017/S0008938913001167, JSTOR   43280637
   • Barbara W. Sommer, The Oral History Review, doi:10.1093/ohr/ohv011, JSTOR   43863649
   • Marvin Tokayer, Jewish Book Council,
10. Review of A Century of Jewish Life in Shanghai:
    • Haim A. Gottschalk, Association of Jewish Libraries News & Reviews,

External links

• Steve Hochstadt's page at History News Network