Description
In Odessa, the greatest port on the Black Sea, a dream of cosmopolitan freedom inspired geniuses and innovators, from the writers Alexander Pushkin and Isaac Babel to Zionist activist Vladimir Jabotinsky and immunologist Ilya Mechnikov. Yet here too was death on a staggering scale, as World War II brought the mass murder of Jews carried out by the city's Romanian occupiers. 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.
Author: Charles King
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 08/13/2012
Pages: 336
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.90lbs
Size: 8.20h x 5.50w x 1.00d
ISBN13: 9780393342369
ISBN10: 0393342360
BISAC Categories:
- History | Jewish | General
- History | Russia & the Former Soviet Union
- History | Eastern Europe | General