Every journey has moments where history and the present meet, and in Shanghai, that meeting feels especially powerful.
This episode continues our journey through Jewish China alongside the descendants of Jews who found a home here nearly a century ago. Shanghai was not just a stop on the map; it was a lifeline. As we explore the city’s cultural highlights, our focus remains firmly on the human story that still echoes through its streets.
We visited the Jewish Refugees Museum to understand how thousands of European Jews rebuilt their lives here during the darkest years of the 20th Century.
We stepped inside a historic Shanghai synagogue, connecting the physical spaces of the past with the memories carried by families today. And finally, we shifted firmly into the present, discovering what Jewish life in Shanghai looks like in 2026 with a visit to the city’s Chabad House.
From refuge to renewal, memory to modern community, this Shanghai chapter reminds us that Jewish history here is not only something to be remembered, but something still being lived.
David was the guest of the China Civil Engineering Construction Corporation and the Chinese Enterprises Association in Israel.
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