Odessa: Genius and Death in a City of Dreams

Brand: W. W. Norton n Company

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UPC:
9780393342369
Maximum Purchase:
3 units
Binding:
Paperback
Publication Date:
2012-08-13
Author:
Charles King
Language:
english
Edition:
1
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Rich and riveting, complex and compelling, powerful and poetic. Peter M. Gianotti, Newsday

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 citys 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 Odessas dream in a diaspora reaching all the way to Brighton Beach. 25 illustrations