Highlights
During WWII, large group of Jewish were evacated to China Shanghai from central Europe, so Shanghai has left many spots which were related with the activities of Jewish people. This tour will give visitors especially Jewish a good opportunity to visit the historic buildings and events.
1 Day Shanghai Jewish Tour
Ohel Moishe Synagogue,Huoshan Park,Lunch,The Peace Hotel,Bund,Former Jewish Club,Moller Villa
The guide and driver will meet you in your hotel, then we start the tour by visiting Ohel Moishe Synagogue, it is an designated area During WWII and became the home of approximately 20,000 Jew refugees from Central Europe. You can take a walk through the former ghetto,visits Huoshan park,and goes to Ohel Moishe Synagogue and its museum; then, we will visit the Peace Hotel built by British-Jew,Victor Sassoon,formerly called Cathay Hotel, this luxurious building epitomized the era when Shanghai was known as the ‘Paris of the East',afterwards, walk on the Bund showing off Shanghai's outstanding foreign buildings, it is the emblem of Shanghai, the area used to be British concession.
In the afternoon, we will see Former Jewish Club,where the news of the establishment of the state of Israel was declared, including Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion's speech, was read to the community at the Jewish Club in 1948. The club is now used by the Shanghai Music Conservatory. The Jewish influence on Shanghai's music scene was quite notable, and Jews from central Europe and Russia trained many people who became the city's leading musicians for decades.
Finally, we will go to visit Moller Villaon,it is at the edge of the French Concession, unique for its fantasy of brown-tiled Gothic and Tudor steeples, gables, and spires. It was built by a Jewish shipping magnate from Sweden, Eric Moller, in 1936.
What is included
*Pick-up and drop-off from your hotel.
*Private vehicle with driver;
*Excellent English speaking private tour guide;
*Entrance fees of all sites as mentioned;
*Service charge & Government taxes.
What is excluded
*Tips for the guide and driver
*Hotel in Shanghai.
*LMeals. The guide will suggest a restaurant and you can pay the bill by yourself.
Note
*Free Pick-up and drop-off services are offered for visitors staying in dowtown area of Shanghai city, so please SPECIFY the hotel name and address when you enroll this tour.
*The night before the tour departure about 8:30Pm, a guide will call you directly if you have left us a China mobile number, or he/she will call to the hotel room to inform the pick-up time next morning.
*A message will be left at the hotel front desk if you are not in the room when he/she calls.
*Please call this emergency number +86-18086842467 to confirm the pick-up time if you didn't receive any message from our guide the night before departure.
