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City of rogues and schnorrers : Russia's Jews and the myth of old Odessa / Jarrod Tanny.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Tanny, Jarrod.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Jews--Ukraine--Odesa--History.
- Jews.
- Jewish criminals--Ukraine--Odesa--Biography.
- Jewish criminals.
- Cultural pluralism--Ukraine--Odesa--History.
- Cultural pluralism.
- Odesa (Ukraine)--Social conditions.
- Odesa (Ukraine).
- Odesa (Ukraine)--Ethnic relations.
- Odesa (Ukraine)--In literature.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (288 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Bloomington : Indiana University Press, c2011.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Old Odessa, on the Black Sea, gained notoriety as a legendary city of Jewish gangsters and swindlers, a frontier boomtown mythologized for the adventurers, criminals, and merrymakers who flocked there to seek easy wealth and lead lives of debauchery and excess. Odessa is also famed for the brand of Jewish humor brought there in the 19th century from the shtetls of Eastern Europe and that flourished throughout Soviet times. From a broad historical perspective, Jarrod Tanny examines the hybrid Judeo-Russian culture that emerged in Odessa in the 19th century and persisted through the Soviet er
- Contents:
- The birth of old Odessa
- Crafting old Odessa
- The battle for old Odessa
- Revival and survival
- Rewriting old Odessa's mythical past.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [237]-258) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9786613528094
- 9781280124235
- 1280124237
- 9780253001382
- 0253001382
- OCLC:
- 775873125
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