Steven Lawrence Hochstadt (born 1948) 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. He is active in the Sino-Judaic Institute.
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 (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 Review of A Century of Jewish Life in Shanghai: Haim A. Gottschalk, Association of Jewish Libraries News & Reviews,
Reviews of Mobility and Modernity: Frank Buscher, German Studies Review, Dirk Hoerder, "Migration in Germany", The International History Review, William H. Hubbard, German Politics & Society, Walter F. Kamphoefner, Journal of Social History, , Leo Lucassen, International Review of Social History, , Jean H. Quataert, The American Historical Review, , Frank B. Tipton, Central European History, , John Torpey, The Journal of Interdisciplinary History, ,
Review of Shanghai-Geschichten: Christiane Hoss, "Auf Nimmerwiedersehen, Shanghai! Aber wohin?", Mitgliederrundbrief,
Reviews of Sources of the Holocaust: Lee Baker, German Studies Review, Ben Lieberman, European History Quarterly, Eric Sterling, H-net, William Tannenbaum, H-net,
Reviews of Exodus to Shanghai: Rose Holmes, Jewish Culture and History, Thoralf Klein, German Historical Institute London Bulletin, Peter Monteath, Central European History, , Barbara W. Sommer, The Oral History Review, , Marvin Tokayer, Jewish Book Council,
External links Steve Hochstadt's page at History News Network