Guide to the Joseph Jedeikin Collection
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Title: Joseph Jedeikin Collection
Creator:
Jedeikin, Joseph, 1927-
Identifier/Call Number: OCH.JJC
Exent:
0.20 linear feet
Date (inclusive): 1942-1944
Abstract: Joseph Jedeikin was born in Kobe, Japan
to a Russian mother and Latvian father. After living in Switzerland as a child, his family
moved to Shanghai in 1940 to escape German persecution against Jews which they felt would
eventually reach them if they stayed in Europe. The family lived in the French Concession,
and Jedeikin attended the Public and Thomas Hanbury School before graduating in 1945 and
leaving China in 1946 to attend university in America. The collection consists of
Jedeikin's membership card for the local Y.M.C.A. in Shanghai, and the armband worn by
Jedeikin as a member of the Foreign Pao Chia during World War II.
Language of Material: English,
Chinese
Joseph (Joe) Jedeikin was born in 1927 in Kobe, Japan to a Russian mother and Latvian
father. His family, who were Jewish, moved to Zurich, Switzerland in 1930, where they lived
for ten years. At the outbreak of World War II, Jedeikin's father feared that Switzerland
would fall to Germany like Austria and Czechoslovakia, so he decided to flee Europe with his
family. After a failed attempt to immigrate to the United States, the family moved to
Shanghai in 1940 and settled in the French Concession, where Jedeikin attended the Public
and Thomas Hanbury School for Boys. As Latvians, the family was not interned during the war,
but Jedeikin was forced at age 17 to serve in Shanghai's Foreign Pao Chia as an air warden,
patrolling the city on lookout for B-29 bomb strikes. After graduating from school in 1945,
Jedeikin was accepted into the University of California at Berkeley, and he left Shanghai in
1946 for the United States. He attended Berkeley for two years, then transferred to the
University of California, Hastings College of the Law, where he earned a Juris Doctor degree
in 1951 and began practicing law in the San Francisco area, where he still lives today.
The
Joseph Jedeikin Collection consists of Jedeikin's
membership card for the local Y.M.C.A. in Shanghai, and the armband worn by Jedeikin as an
air raid warden for the Foreign Pao Chia during World War II.
The collection is open for research use.
Copyright for unpublished materials authored or otherwise produced by the creator(s) of
this collection has not been transferred to California State University, Northridge.
Copyright status for other materials is unknown. Transmission or reproduction of materials
protected by U.S. Copyright Law (Title 17, U.S.C.) beyond that allowed by fair use requires
the written permission of the copyright owners. Works not in the public domain cannot be
commercially exploited without permission of the copyright owners. Responsibility for any
use rests exclusively with the user.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Joseph Jedeikin, 2001.
For information about citing items in this collection consult the appropriate style manual,
or see the
Citing Archival Materials
guide.
Jessica Geiser, 2013
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Ephemera
Box 1, Item 1
The Foreign Y.M.C.A. Shanghai, China - Membership Card - Junior Division, 1942
Box 1, Item 2
Foreign Pao Chia Armband, 1944