02775nam 2200661 a 450 991045764920332120200520144314.01-280-12423-797866135280940-253-00138-2(CKB)2550000000073947(EBL)860075(OCoLC)775873125(SSID)ssj0000606258(PQKBManifestationID)11413296(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000606258(PQKBWorkID)10580251(PQKB)10859960(MiAaPQ)EBC860075(OCoLC)770876078(MdBmJHUP)muse18543(Au-PeEL)EBL860075(CaPaEBR)ebr10519692(CaONFJC)MIL352809(EXLCZ)99255000000007394720110510d2011 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrCity of rogues and schnorrers[electronic resource] Russia's Jews and the myth of old Odessa /Jarrod TannyBloomington Indiana University Pressc20111 online resource (288 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-253-35646-6 Includes bibliographical references (p. [237]-258) and index.The birth of old Odessa -- Crafting old Odessa -- The battle for old Odessa -- Revival and survival -- Rewriting old Odessa's mythical past.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 erJewsUkraineOdesaHistoryJewish criminalsUkraineOdesaBiographyCultural pluralismUkraineOdesaHistoryOdesa (Ukraine)Social conditionsOdesa (Ukraine)Ethnic relationsOdesa (Ukraine)In literatureElectronic books.JewsHistory.Jewish criminalsCultural pluralismHistory.947.7/2Tanny Jarrod996717MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910457649203321City of rogues and schnorrers2285293UNINA