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Source: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A62426-2004Sep4.html
Shanghai to Honor Its Jewish Legacy: City to Save Part of Refugees' Ghetto
(Washington Post) Edward Cody - The Ohel Moishe Synagogue in Shanghai, constructed in 1927, was the centerpiece of what was once a ghetto inhabited by nearly 20,000 European Jews who landed there seeking safety, first from Russian pogroms, then from Hitler's Holocaust. The Shanghai Jews have long gone, but they left behind an eccentric little neighborhood in the middle of Shanghai with European-inspired row houses, a theater, the synagogue, and several grand buildings that would not be out of place in Vienna. Prodded by Chinese and foreigners with a personal or historical interest in the Shanghai ghetto, the city government has begun to recognize the cultural and tourist value of the neighborhood.