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Author Tanny, Jarrod

Title City of rogues and schnorrers : Russia's Jews and the myth of old Odessa / Jarrod Tanny
Published Bloomington : Indiana University Press, ©2011

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Description 1 online resource (xiii, 265 pages) : illustrations
Contents The birth of old Odessa -- Crafting old Odessa -- The battle for old Odessa -- Revival and survival -- Rewriting old Odessa's mythical past
Summary 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 era a
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 237-258) and index
Subject Jews -- Ukraine -- Odesa -- History
Jewish criminals -- Ukraine -- Odesa -- Biography
Cultural pluralism -- Ukraine -- Odesa -- History
HISTORY -- Europe -- Eastern.
HISTORY -- Europe -- Former Soviet Republics.
HISTORY -- Europe -- Russia & the Former Soviet Union.
LITERARY CRITICISM -- Jewish.
Cultural pluralism
Ethnic relations
Jewish criminals
Jews
Literature
Social conditions
SUBJECT Odesa (Ukraine) -- Social conditions
Odesa (Ukraine) -- Ethnic relations
Odesa (Ukraine) -- In literature
Subject Ukraine -- Odesa
Genre/Form collective biographies.
Biographies
History
Biographies.
Biographies.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 0253001382
9780253001382