The Jews of Odessa
Author: Steven J. Zipperstein
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Published: 1985
Total Pages: 212
ISBN-13: 0804766843
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City of Rogues and Schnorrers
Author: Jarrod Tanny
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Published: 2011-11-14
Total Pages: 311
ISBN-13: 0253001382
DOWNLOAD EBOOK“Outstanding . . . A delightfully written work of serious scholarship.” —Jewish Book World 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 nineteenth 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 nineteenth century and persisted through the Soviet era and beyond. The book shows how the art of eminent Soviet-era figures such as Isaac Babel, Il’ia Ilf, Evgenii Petrov, and Leonid Utesov grew out of the Odessa Russian-Jewish culture into which they were born and which shaped their lives. “Traces the emergence, development, and persistence of the myth of Odessa as both Garden of Eden and Gomorrah . . . A joy to read.” —Robert Weinberg, Swarthmore College
Odessa: Genius and Death in a City of Dreams
Author: Charles King
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 2011-02-28
Total Pages: 337
ISBN-13: 0393080528
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWinner of a National Jewish Book Award "Fascinating.…A humane and tragic survey of a great and tragic subject." —Jan Morris, Literary Review From Alexander Pushkin and Isaac Babel to Zionist renegade Vladimir Jabotinsky and filmmaker Sergei Eisenstein, an astonishing cast of geniuses helped shape Odessa, a legendary haven of cosmopolitan freedom on the Black Sea. Drawing on a wealth of original sources and offering the first detailed account of the destruction of the city's Jewish community during the Second World War, Charles King's Odessa is both history and elegy—a vivid chronicle of a multicultural city and its remarkable resilience over the past two centuries.
Imagining Russian Jewry
Author: Steven J. Zipperstein
Publisher: University of Washington Press
Published: 2013-11-21
Total Pages: 152
ISBN-13: 0295802316
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis subtle, unusual book explores the many, often overlapping ways in which the Russian Jewish past has been remembered in history, in literature, and in popular culture. Drawing on a wide range of sources—including novels, plays, and archival material—Imagining Russian Jewry is a reflection on reading, collective memory, and the often uneasy, and also uncomfortably intimate, relationships that exist between seemingly incompatible ways of seeing the past. The book also explores what it means to produce scholarship on topics that are deeply personal: its anxieties, its evasions, and its pleasures. Zipperstein, a leading expert in modern Jewish history, explores the imprint left by the Russian Jewish past on American Jews starting from the turn of the twentieth century, considering literature ranging from immigrant novels to Fiddler on the Roof. In Russia, he finds nostalgia in turn-of-the-century East European Jewry itself, in novels contrasting Jewish life in acculturated Odessa with the more traditional shtetls. The book closes with a provocative call for a greater awareness regarding how the Holocaust has influenced scholarship produced since the Shoah.
The Revolution of 1905 in Odessa
Author: Robert Weinberg
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Published: 1993
Total Pages: 332
ISBN-13: 9780253363817
DOWNLOAD EBOOKRobert Weinberg examines the tumultuous events of the 1905 Revolution in Odessa, the fourth-largest city in the Russian Empire at the turn of the twentieth century, and explores why workers in Odessa were the driving force in the near-toppling of autocratic rule. Weinberg offers a compelling analysis of labor's militancy and politicization in 1905 and provides insights into the social dynamics of labor activism in late Imperial Russia. He pays close attention to how the intersection of national developments, local events, and the workers' daily experiences prompted Odessa workers to claim rights of citizenship, challenge authority, and assert greater control over their working lives. The book also sheds light on the notorious Jewish Question in tsarist Russia and the impact of ethnic conflict on the events of 1905. Jews constituted one-third of Odessa's population, and the bloody October pogrom that left hundreds dead reveals how ethno-religious tensions affected the labor movement and influenced the outcome of the revolution in Odessa. By demonstrating the intricate relationship among labor unrest, politics, and anti-Semitism, The Revolution of 1905 in Odessa enriches our understanding of the multifaceted dimensions of revolution in the Russian Empire.
Jews and Ukrainians
Author: Paul R. Magocsi
Publisher:
Published: 2016
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780772751119
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"This volume surveys various past and present aspects of Jews and ethnic Ukrainians on the territory of Ukraine and in the diaspora."--
Pogroms
Author: Eugene M. Avrutin
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2021-09-24
Total Pages: 288
ISBN-13: 0190060115
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFrom the 1880s to the 1940s, an upsurge of explosive pogroms caused much pain and suffering across the eastern borderlands of Europe. Rioters attacked Jewish property and caused physical harm to women and children. During World War I and the Russian Civil War, pogrom violence turned into full-blown military actions. In some cases, pogroms wiped out of existence entire Jewish communities. More generally, they were part of a larger story of destruction, ethnic purification, and coexistence that played out in the region over a span of some six decades. Pogroms: A Documentary History surveys the complex history of anti-Jewish violence by bringing together archival and published sources--many appearing for the first time in English translation. The documents assembled here include eyewitness testimony, oral histories, diary excerpts, literary works, trial records, and press coverage. They also include memos and field reports authored by army officials, investigative commissions, humanitarian organizations, and government officials. This landmark volume and its distinguished roster of scholars provides an unprecedented view of the history of pogroms.
Odessa Memories
Author: Nicolas V. Iljine
Publisher: University of Washington Press
Published: 2003
Total Pages: 210
ISBN-13: 0295983450
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"Both a visual treat and a serious exploration of Odessa's rich history, culture, and social fabric, this book stands alone as a sumptuous homage to a storied city that has inspired affinity and curiosity all over the world."--BOOK JACKET.
From Odessa to Jerusalem
Author: Leon Majaro
Publisher: Majaro Publications
Published: 2011
Total Pages: 205
ISBN-13: 0956285910
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Author: Paulina a Zelitsky
Publisher: 978-0-9918538-9-2
Published: 2015-03-13
Total Pages: 104
ISBN-13: 9780991853892
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOdessa, the largest port on Black Sea in Ukraine, became a unique cosmopolitan city in an ocean of traditionally isolated Russia. Why did all the residents of many ethnicities in Odessa, even those who were non-Jews, speak in the strong slang of Yiddish/Ukrainian/Russian mix sparkled with Italian, French, and English, in which all residents of Odessa insisted on communicating among themselves? Why do visitors of Odessa feel the impression of a Middle Eastern or European Mediterranean city and definitely not a Russian city? Why is Odessa the cradle of Reform Judaism, the Resistance Movement, Zionism, Yiddish literature, Klezmer music, and so many brilliant talents in many areas of the arts, literature, and science? Why are violinists from Odessa so famous worldwide? Why is Odessan humor world famous for its sarcasm? Was it not this humor that made the Jewish writers from Odessa internationally renowned? Why are Odessans so firm in their determination not to submit to Russian imperialism? What does Odessan Jewish culture have to do with it? Why is it a birthplace of Jewish resistance fighters: the National Committee of Jewish Self-Defence that were the groups formed of young secondary school students who singlehandedly protected the city residents from pogroms during periods of rebellion and revolution. This spirit of student resistance gave rise to the Bundists and the Social Democrats. Why only in Odessa were these new Maccabees protecting the Jewish population from pogroms while the Jews in the rest of the Pale of Settlement were decimated? Only in Odessa will you find the answers.
