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Odessa Genius and Death in a City of Dreams

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ISBN-10: 0393342360

ISBN-13: 9780393342369

Edition: 2012

Authors: Charles King

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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 city’s 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 Odessa’s dream in a diaspora reaching all the way to Brighton Beach.Eloquent and engaging.—Michael Schwirtz, MomentA worthy tribute to one of Europe’s…    
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Book details

List price: $18.95
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company, Incorporated
Publication date: 8/13/2012
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 336
Size: 0.54" wide x 0.83" long x 0.08" tall
Weight: 0.594
Language: English

Charles King is a professor of internationalaffairs at Georgetown University.A frequent media commentator onglobal issues, he is the author of Odessa, Midnight in the Pera Palace,and other books. He lives in Washington,DC.

Author's Note
Maps
Introduction
City of Dreams
The Sinister Shore
Potemkin and the Mercenaries
Beacon
The Governor and the Poet
"There Is Nothing National about Odessa"
The Habitations of Cruelty
Schemes and Shadows
Blood and Vengeance
New World
The Fields of Transnistria
"I Would Like to Bring to Your Attention the Following"
Nostalgia and Remembrance
Hero City
Twilight
Chronology
Acknowledgments
Notes
Bibliography
Index