Steven Lawrence Hochstadt (born 1948) is a professor emeritus of history at

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. He has done extensive research on

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who fled to

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. Influenced by his grandparents, Viennese Jews who fled the

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and immigrated to Shanghai, Hochstadt conducted 100 interviews with former refugees living in the

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and

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. Based on his studies he wrote several books about the Holocaust and especially about Jewish refugees in

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Education and career

Hochstadt earned a bachelor's degree in mathematics in 1971 from

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, and later returned to Brown for his Ph.D. in history. His 1983 doctoral dissertation, ''Migration in Germany: an historical study'', was supervised by R. Burr Litchfield. He taught at

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from 1979 until 2006, when he joined the Illinois College faculty. He retired as a professor emeritus in 2014.

Books

Hochstadt's books include: * ''Mobility and Modernity: Migration in Germany, 1820–1989'' (University of Michigan Press, 1999) * ''Sources of the Holocaust'' (edited, Palgrave Macmillan, 2004) * ''Shanghai-Geschichten: Die jüdische Flucht nach China'' (Hentrich and Hentrich, 2007) * ''Exodus to Shanghai: Stories of Escape from the Third Reich'' (Palgrave Macmillan, 2012) * ''A Century of Jewish Life in Shanghai'' (edited, Academic Studies Press, 2019) * ''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

External links

Steve Hochstadt's page
at

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