Steve Hochstadt


Steven Lawrence Hochstadt is a professor emeritus of history at Illinois College in Jacksonville, Illinois. 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, 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.

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. His 1983 doctoral dissertation, Migration in Germany: an historical study, was supervised by R. Burr Litchfield.
He taught at Bates College in Maine 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 Sources of the Holocaust Shanghai-Geschichten: Die jüdische Flucht nach China Exodus to Shanghai: Stories of Escape from the Third Reich A Century of Jewish Life in Shanghai Freedom of the Press in Small-Town America: My Opinions