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Record Nr.

UNINA9910781554303321

Autore

Tanny Jarrod

Titolo

City of rogues and schnorrers [[electronic resource] ] : Russia's Jews and the myth of old Odessa / / Jarrod Tanny

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Bloomington, : Indiana University Press, c2011

ISBN

1-280-12423-7

9786613528094

0-253-00138-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (288 p.)

Disciplina

947.7/2

Soggetti

Jews - Ukraine - Odesa - History

Jewish criminals - Ukraine - Odesa

Cultural pluralism - Ukraine - Odesa - History

Odesa (Ukraine) Social conditions

Odesa (Ukraine) Ethnic relations

Odesa (Ukraine) In literature

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [237]-258) and index.

Nota di contenuto

The birth of old Odessa -- Crafting old Odessa -- The battle for old Odessa -- Revival and survival -- Rewriting old Odessa's mythical past.

Sommario/riassunto

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