Chapter 1 A Community No Longer in Existence 2
The Cooking Smoke that Lingers on 3
A Quest Starting from Nothing 10
The Streets where Jews once Lived 14
Chapter 2 A Foreign Land? No! My Second Home! 20
The Little White Building—“Russia Town” 20
A Complete Map of the Jewish Community 31
When in Tianjin, Do as Tianjiners Do 39
Chapter 3 From Commercial Trade to Intellectual Activities 50
A Trade Road Built on Humps 50
Victoria and Victory 59
Three Striking Features 66
Chapter 4 Tianjin Jews in WW Ⅱ 73
Flying Historical Materials 74
Refugees, Refugees, and More Refugees 85
“Tianjin Jews Phenomenon ”in WW Ⅱ 90
War, War, and War 103
Chapter 5 Love in the Wartime 113
From an Internationalist to a Patriot 114
The Seventh Photo: an Empty Lens 137
A Heavenly Ford for Jews 150
Tianjin Dreams 167
My brother, My Sister and 1 182
My Seven Years in Tianjin 201
A Perilous Journey—From Vienna to Tianjin 215
The Tientsin Boy 230
Chapter 6 The Search Never Ends 251
I Miss the Whitewashed Roof of My House 252
The Love for Our Hometown Crosses the Ocean 255
Memory Pieces 262
The Footsteps We Share 278
Postscript 295