时间：2025年10月16日14:00

地点：恕园19号楼205

主讲内容：

At the onset of World War II, the Dominican Republic became one of the few countries to openly offer refuge to Jews fleeing Nazi persecution in Europe. Through an agricultural settlement project in Sosúa, refugees were able to begin new lives in the Caribbean. At the same time, Shanghai emerged as another unexpected place of refuge, hosting thousands of Jews escaping Europe. After the war, some of these “Shanghai refugees” eventually migrated on to the Dominican Republic, adding another layer to this transoceanic story. This lecture draws on ethnographic research to explore how these intertwined trajectories are remembered across generations. Family narratives and cultural practices reveal both the resilience of jewish communities and the entangled histories that connect Europe, the Caribbean, and China, shaping the Jewish diaspora to this day.

主讲人简介：

Sarah Nimführ is a cultural anthropologist specializing in island studies, migration research, and memory culture with a regional focus on the Mediterranean and Caribbean. Her current research focuses on the Jewish diaspora and transoceanic migration, examining how communities navigate displacement, colonial legacies, and cultural entanglements. Drawing on decolonial perspectives, she investigates how cultural practices, storytelling, and transgenerational memory shape collective identities across islands and diasporic spaces. She holds a PhD in European Ethnology from the University of Vienna and is currently a Principal Investigator at the University of Arts Linz, Austria (Department of Cultural Studies) as well as a Visiting Scholar at the Center for Jewish History, New York.