Odessa : Genius and Death in a City of Dreams (9780393070842)

Italian merchants, Greek freedom fighters, and Turkish seamen; a Russian empress and her favorite soldier-bureaucrats; Jewish tavern keepers, traders, and journalists-these and many others seeking fortune and adventure rubbed shoulders in Odessa, the greatest port on the Black Sea.

Here a dream of cosmopolitan freedom inspired geniuses and innovators, from Alexander Pushkin and Isaac Babel to Zionist activist Vladimir Jabotinsky and immunologist Ilya Mechnikov. Yet here too was death on a staggering scale: not only the insidious plagues common to seaports but also the mass murder of Jews carried out by the Romanian occupation during World War II. Drawing on a wealth of original source material, 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.

Product details

• Format Hardback | 336 pages
• Dimensions 165 x 244 x 28mm | 614g
• Publication date 20 May 2011
• Publisher WW Norton & Co
• Publication City/Country New York, United States
• Language English
• Illustrations note 25 black-and-white illustrations
• ISBN10 0393070840
• ISBN13 9780393070842
• Bestsellers rank 302,479

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