 As a result of Chinese economic growth in recent years, however, the city's Jewish population has grown to around 1,500 in 2010.This compares to a Jewish population of fewer than 100 around 20 years before.Wu, a former history teacher, first become interested in the history of Shanghai's Jews, obscure to both Jews and Chinese alike, in 2005, when many newspapers and magazines in Shanghai published the stories of Jewish refugees to mark the 60th anniversary of the end of the Second World War, seeing parallels between the Jewish and Chinese peoples' oppression by the Germans and Japanese respectively, and their struggles against fascism.