Hardback edition: $24.95, 218 pages, 8 pages photos, 1992, ISBN 1-881896-02-1

Paperback edition: $19.95, 218 pages, 8 pages photos, 2000, ISBN 1-881896-22-6

Rena Krasno was born in Shanghai, China in 1923, the daughter of stateless Russian Jews. She is a professional simultaneous interpreter in four languages who has worked with UNESCO, the Olympic Committee, the International Labor Organization, and other international organizations. She is the author of several children's books, including Kneeling Carabao and Dancing Giants: Celebrating Filipino Festivals and Floating Lanterns and Golden Shrines: Celebrating Japanese Festivals.

Rena can be contacted through e-mail: rena@renakrasno.com


Reviewers comment on Strangers Always:

"An engrossing and evocative eyewitness account of the author's own and her family's experiences. The accounts from her diary present a unique description of daily life in the Jewish community, especially in the time of the Japanese occupation of Shanghai. It is an unusually competent combination of solid history and personal experience."
------The Jewish Times

"A remarkable combination of personal experiences and short essays on the history of Jews in Shanghai, life under foreign occupation, and cultural encounters."
------Library Journal

"The most vivid account I've read of the life and times of the Russian Jewish community under Japanese occupation."
------Frederic Wakeman, Director, Institute of East Asian Studies, University of California, Berkeley



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