Steve Hochstadt

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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]

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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:

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References

  1. 1 2 3 "Steve Hochstadt papers". Edmund S. Muskie Archives and Special Collections Library. Bates College. Retrieved November 5, 2023.
  2. 1 2 3 4 "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 2023-11-08.; Hochstadt, Steven Lawrence (1983). Migration in Germany: an historical study (Doctoral dissertation). Brown University.
  6. Reviews of Mobility and Modernity:
  7. Reviews of Sources of the Holocaust:
  8. Review of Shanghai-Geschichten:
    • Christiane Hoss, "Auf Nimmerwiedersehen, Shanghai! Aber wohin?", Mitgliederrundbrief,
  9. Reviews of Exodus to Shanghai:
  10. Review of A Century of Jewish Life in Shanghai:
    • Haim A. Gottschalk, Association of Jewish Libraries News & Reviews,