Odessa: Genius and Death in a City of Dreams

Name: Odessa: Genius and Death in a City of Dreams
Brand: Blue Guides Limited of London
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By Charles King

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Italian merchants, Greek freedom fighters, and Turkish seamen; a Russian empress and her favorite soldier-bureaucrats; Jewish tavern keepers, traders, and journalists-these and many others seeking fortune and adventure rubbed shoulders in Odessa, the greatest port on the Black Sea.

Here a dream of cosmopolitan freedom inspired geniuses and innovators, from Alexander Pushkin and Isaac Babel to Zionist activist Vladimir Jabotinsky and immunologist Ilya Mechnikov. Yet here too was death on a staggering scale: not only the insidious plagues common to seaports but also the mass murder of Jews carried out by the Romanian occupation during World War II. Drawing on a wealth of original source material, Odessa is an elegy for the vibrant, multicultural tapestry of which a thriving Jewish population formed an essential part, as well as a celebration of the survival of Odessa's dream in a diaspora reaching all the way to Brighton Beach.

Product details

Edition:: 1
Number of Pages:: 336
Release Date:: 2011-02-28
Publication Date:: 2011-02-28
Publisher:: Blue Guides Limited of London
Languages:: Original: English
ISBN10:: 0393070840
ISBN13:: 9780393070842
Weight:: 634 g
Height:: 169 cm
Width:: 242 cm
Thickness:: 29 cm

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