Werbe-Verlag and Philipp Kohn – Getting Jewish News Circulated in Wartime Shanghai

Werbe-Verlag was, I believe, A Jewish advertising and newspaper/magazine.journal distribution company, based in Shanghai. Run by Philipp Kohn it specialised in local Jewish refugee publications (Jüdisches Gemeindeblatt etc), and other  publications of interest to that community, in the late 1930s and 1940s. Kohn’s offices were on Kungping Road, now Lingping Road, in Hongkew/Tilanqiao, close to the Jewish Ghetto. Kohn, originally from Germany I think, certainly operated the company between 1939 and 1946 and often stepped in to edit and contribute to various publications as well as distribute them and solicit advertising to help fund them. After the war Kohn was verbally outspoken against certain members of the community he considered corrupt and who had assumed leadership roles during the Japanese occupation of the city.