Shanghai Jewish Gravestones – Update (Nothing New Sadly)

An article in the Los Angeles Times that updates the saga of the Jewish gravestones that Dvir Bar-Gal has been collecting for years. I’ve mentioned all this before but as this is a new article it updates the saga a wee bit. Not much seems to have changed with this business for some time now and the gravestones remain in a warehouse – according to Bar-Gal Communist officialdom will not allow them to become part of the collection at Ohel Moshe Synagogue in Hongkou due to a belief that they would bring bad luck!! Marxism-Leninism meets superstition north of Suzhou Creek.

Here’s a link to the article

By way of a visual – it’s a hot and humid summer weekend in Shanghai this weekend and back in the days of the Jewish Ghetto the community of refugees liked nothing better than to go drinking and dancing on the roof of The Mascot on Wayside Road (now Huoshan Road) -  the building remains with a couple of restaurants at ground level and a billiard parlour upstairs though sadly the roof is now closed these days and nobody dances up there anymore. Believe me, I’ve tried to get up on it several times!