Dvir Bar-Gal
Dvir Bar-Gal offers highly entertaining and informative walking tours of Jewish Shanghai. You will see a side of Shanghai that most people don’t know exists.
Dvir is a Shanghai-based Israel-born journalist who has dedicated himself to saving the building, memories and trying to build a memorial to the Jews of Shanghai. He has collected for preservation, the many Jewish tombstones found by farmers and builders around Shanghai.
A documentarist, videographer and photojournalist, Dvir graduated from Tel-Aviv University’s Film department and the Art-Inter Disciplinary program in 1996. His tours take over the guided visits given by Flora Amiel and Georgia Noy from 1998 until 2002.
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I found that Dvir Bar-Gal gave me the best guided tour I had in Shanghai during my visit there. First considering the material he covered gave me an in-depth knowledge of the Jewish History in Shanghai and how it developed. We were able to see first hand the living conditions Jews endured in the Shanghai Ghetto during WWII and the actual temple they prayed in. What I most admired about Dvir Bar-Gal is his devotion in educating people from around the world about the Jews of Shanghai and how desperately needed is a memorial in their honor. Divir Bar-Gal I believe is the one to make this dream a reality. I highly recommend this tour to anyone visiting Shanghai, China.
I found that Dvir Bar-Gal gave me the best guided tour I had in Shanghai during my visit there. First considering the material he covered gave me an in-depth knowledge of the Jewish History in Shanghai and how it developed. We were able to see first hand the living conditions Jews endured in the Shanghai Ghetto during WWII and the actual temple they prayed in. What I most admired about Dvir Bar-Gal is his devotion in educating people from around the world about the Jews of Shanghai and how desperately needed is a memorial in their honor. Divir Bar-Gal I believe is the one to make this dream a reality. I highly recommend this tour to anyone visiting Shanghai, China.