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Odessa: Geniu și moarte într-un oraș al visurilor by Charles King
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This book brings to life the Ukrainian city of Odessa (Note: Ukrainian language spelling is Odesa; in Russian it is Odessa). From its chartering by Catherine the Great in the 1790s to its rapid fire growth as a trading hub for grain in the middle of the 19th century to the Holocaust/WWII to the modern day - this book covers the life of a bustling cosmopolitan city in a fairly short volume. For lack of a better of way analogizing it: Odessa is a sort of Slavic New Orleans - we learn about the Ukrainians, Russians, Greeks, Poles, Tartars, and Jews who made this city what it is throughout its history. And helped give it its notorious reputation for vice.
The book gives particular attention to the Jewish aspect of the city and the role it has played in Jewish history more generally - including the ugly atrocities committed against the Jewish population throughout its history (including the massacre of Odessa's Jewish population by the Axis-aligned Romanians during WWII). It does not gloss over the warts; rather, it holds them up to the light to scrutinize them.
If you love the history of Eastern Europe/Ukraine and love urban history, this is a great volume.
The book gives particular attention to the Jewish aspect of the city and the role it has played in Jewish history more generally - including the ugly atrocities committed against the Jewish population throughout its history (including the massacre of Odessa's Jewish population by the Axis-aligned Romanians during WWII). It does not gloss over the warts; rather, it holds them up to the light to scrutinize them.
If you love the history of Eastern Europe/Ukraine and love urban history, this is a great volume.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Genocide and Antisemitism
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