City of rogues and schnorrers : Russia's Jews and the myth of old Odessa /
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...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Bloomington :
Indiana University Press,
2011
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| Local Note: | ProQuest Ebook Central |
| 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. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xiii, 265 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 237-258) and index. |
| ISBN: | 0253001382 9780253001382 |
