Odessa / by Hill, Jonathan David

Odessa Recollected : the Port and the People. by Herlihy, Patricia

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Imperial Odessa. by Sifneos, Evrydiki

Table of Contents: “…Imperial Odessa -- Contents -- Foreword -- Introduction: Of Peripatetic and Other Approaches to Odessaâ#x80;#x99;s History -- 1 The Peripatetic Approach -- 2 The Socio-economic Approach -- Port: Mobility and Ethnic Pluralism -- 1 Port-City Identities and Cosmopolitanism -- 2 Enlightened Administrators -- 3 The People of the Port -- 4 Influences from Without and Within -- 5 The Connectedness of Odessa -- 6 Travel Destination and Relay -- 7 The 1897 Demographic Snapshot -- 8 Residential Porosity: The Mikhelâ#x80;#x99;son Apartment Building in Aleksandrovskii District…”
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The Odessa file. by Forsyth, Frederick, 1938-

Odessa 1941-44 : Defense, Occupation, Resistance and Liberation. by Ovcharenko, Nikolai

Table of Contents: “…Cover; Book Title; Copyright; Table of contents; List of Photographs; List of Maps; Preface: A People's War; 1 The Sources of Odessa's Military Valor; Part 1 The Defense of Odessa 1941; 2 The situation on the Southern Front in the summer of 1941; 3 Defensive fighting on the distant approaches to the city; 4 The fighting on the nearest approaches to the city; 5 Tanks in the battle for Odessa; 6 The joint counterattack by the defenders of Odessa and the stabilization of the front; 7 The evacuation of the Odessa defensive area…”
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In search of history. The ODESSA file

Subjects: “…Odessa (Organization)…”
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Meeting the - Odessa Brown Clinic

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City of rogues and schnorrers : Russia's Jews and the myth of old Odessa / by Tanny, Jarrod

Table of Contents: “…The birth of old Odessa -- Crafting old Odessa -- The battle for old Odessa -- Revival and survival -- Rewriting old Odessa's mythical past.…”
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Stepmother Russia, Foster Mother America : identity transitions in the New Odessa Jewish Commune, Odessa, Oregon, New York, 1881-1891 / by Friedgut, Theodore H.

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The five : a novel of Jewish life in turn-of-the-century Odessa / by Jabotinsky, Vladimir, 1880-1940

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Finding Babel

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Hayim Nahman Bialik : poet of Hebrew by Holtzman, Avner

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Transnational Ukraine? : networks and ties that influence(d) contemporary Ukraine

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Jewish Partisans of the Soviet Union During World War II by Porter, Jack Nusan

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Post-Cosmopolitan Cities : Explorations of Urban Coexistence. by Humphrey, Caroline

Table of Contents: “…List of Illustrations; acknowledgments; Introduction -- Caroline Humphrey and Vera Skvirskaja; Chapter 1 -- Odessa: Pogroms in a Cosmopolitan City; Chapter 2 -- Negotiating Cosmopolitanism: Migration, Religious Education and Shifting Jewish Orientations in Post-Soviet Odessa; Chapter 3 -- At the City's Social Margins: Selective Cosmopolitans in Odessa; Chapter 4 -- 'A Gate, but Leading Where?' …”
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Great chefs of America. Episode 213

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Great chefs of America. Episode 210

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Great chefs of America. Episode 216

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Shush! : growing up Jewish under Stalin : a memoir by Draitser, Emil, 1937-

Table of Contents: “…-- One Passover in Odessa -- On commissars, cosmopolites, and lightbulb inventors -- Them! …”
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Imagining Russian Jewry : memory, history, identity by Zipperstein, Steven J., 1950-

Table of Contents: “…Reinventing Heders -- 3. Remapping Odessa -- 4. On the Holocaust in the writing of the East European Jewish past.…”
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Limits of a post-Soviet state : how informality replaces, renegotiates, and reshapes governance in contemporary Ukraine by Polese, Abel

Table of Contents: “…7 Final Reflections on Hospitality, Food and GuestsCited works; 1 Introduction: the role of bazaars in Odessa; 2 On the persistence of informal economic practices in the (post-Soviet) world; 3 The origins of bazaars in Odessa; 4 The morphology and function of bazaars of Odessa; 5 Post-1991 bazaars and their challenges; 6 The transformation of bazaars; 7 The future of bazaars in Odessa; Cited works; 1 Methodological considerations; 2 The context: evolution of language statuses in Ukraine; 3 Domesticating Ukrainian identities; 4 Concluding remarks; Cited works…”
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Rescuing the children : a holocaust memoir by Samuel, Vivette, 1919-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Odessa to Paris -- War, exodus, and occupation -- To be committed at the age of twenty -- Rivesaltes : behind the barbed wire -- At the time of the deportations -- The hunt for the children -- Going underground -- Coming out of the war -- Fifty years later --Children's odysseys.…”
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Port Jews : Jewish Communities in Cosmopolitan Maritime Trading Centres, 1550-1950. by Cesarani, David

Table of Contents: “…Port Jewry of Salonika: Between Neo-colonialism and Nation-stateGreeks and Jews in Salonika and Odessa: Inter-ethnic Relations in Cosmopolitan Port Cities; A Port, Not a Shtetl: Reflections on the Distinctiveness of Odessa; The Sorkin and Golab Theses and Their Applicability to South, Southeast, and East Asian Port Jewry; Conclusion: Future Research on Port Jews; Notes on Contributors; Abstracts; Index.…”
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The man who swam into history : the (mostly) true story of my Jewish family by Rosenstone, Robert A.

Table of Contents: “…Prologue : Romania, Rumania, Roumania -- The man who swam -- Far from Hasenpoth -- Lazarus West -- Wild Hannah -- The afterthought -- Transylvania sank -- Lower California, here we come -- Hannah's lament -- Mixed-up Bobby -- Izzy the red -- Café Odessa -- Epilogue : Sunday in Montreal.…”
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The letters of Menakhem-Mendl and Sheyne-Sheyndl ; and, Motl, the cantor's son by Sholem Aleichem, 1859-1916

Table of Contents: “…The letters of Menakhem-Mendl and Sheyne-Sheyndl: -- Londons : the Odessa exchange -- Stocks & bonds : the Yehupetz exchange -- Millions : traders, agents, and speculators -- An honorable profession : Menakhem-Mendl becomes a writer -- It's no go : Menakhem-Mendl the matchmaker -- Always a loser : Menakhem-Mendl the insurance agent -- -- Motl, the cantor's son: -- Part one -- Part two.…”
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The letters of Menakhem-Mendl and Sheyne-Sheyndl ; and, Motl, the cantor's son by Sholem Aleichem, 1859-1916

Table of Contents: “…The letters of Menakhem-Mendl and Sheyne-Sheyndl: -- Londons : the Odessa exchange -- Stocks & bonds : the Yehupetz exchange -- Millions : traders, agents, and speculators -- An honorable profession : Menakhem-Mendl becomes a writer -- It's no go : Menakhem-Mendl the matchmaker -- Always a loser : Menakhem-Mendl the insurance agent -- -- Motl, the cantor's son: -- Part one -- Part two.…”
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The flatlanders : now it's now again by Davis, John T. (John Terry), 1955-

Table of Contents: “…The Llano -- The city -- The invasion -- The house -- Joe, Jimmie, and Butch, part 1 -- Compañeros -- Genesis -- More a legend -- Diaspora -- Joe, Jimmie, and Butch, part 2 -- More a band -- Alchemy : Now again -- Cruising speed : Wheels of fortune/Live '72 -- Dust to dust : Hills & valleys -- Closing the circle : The Odessa tapes.…”
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Battleship Potemkin : from the series "The Year 1905"

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Memoirs of a Jewish Prisoner of the Gulag by Preigerzon, Zvi

Table of Contents: “…Israel Avrovich -- Zinovy Shulman and Lublin Gymnasia in Odessa -- Gitterman -- Part 9: On the Way to Inta -- Michael Ibambletov -- Kononenko -- Alexey Ivanovich -- Ostrovsky -- Part 10: Inta Mineral Prison Camp -- Part 11: 4th Abez Prison Camp -- The Engineering Team -- Suchoruchko -- Lihachev -- Kalinin -- Kargin -- Boris Ivanovich -- Zeleny -- Isaak Hoffman -- Shmuel Halkin -- Leib Strongin -- Gregory Shitz -- Yakov Shternberg -- Weissman -- The Coachman -- Part 12: Vorkuta -- Barracks Number 18 -- Kuznetsov -- Stalinsky -- Kostia Amarnetov -- 1st River Camp -- Stein -- Shkolnik…”
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Moon Wars

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EVIL TRUTH OF NAZISM a history of occultic evil. by ASHWORTH, SHAUNE ANTHONY

Table of Contents: “…-- Chapter V -- Ivan the Terrible -- AKA Stalin the Terrible -- Chapter VI -- Intelligence, Odessa and the Coming of the Fourth Reich -- Chapter VII -- Why the Swastika and Not the Cross? …”
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The flavor of Wisconsin : an informal history of food and eating in the Badger State by Hachten, Harva

Table of Contents: “…Contents -- Foreword by Odessa Piper -- Introduction -- Repasts -- 1. Earliest Days -- 2. …”
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Jewish agricultural utopias in America, 1880-1910 by Herscher, Uri D.

Table of Contents: “…"Our Russian Colonies"; Jewish Settlements in America: Early Plans; Ararat, New York; Zeire Hazon and Sholem, New York; American Hebrew Agricultural and Horticultural Association, New York; Jewish Farming Settlements in America, 1880-1910; Alliance Israélite Universelle: Its Role; Sicily Island, Louisiana; New Odessa, Oregon…”
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Ukraine : A Nation on the Borderland by Schlögel, Karl

Table of Contents: “…Kiev, Metropolis -- 5. Ah, Odessa: A City in an Era of Great Expectations -- 6. …”
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Notable Southern Californians in Black History by Johnson, Robert Lee

Table of Contents: “…Dymally -- Thomas "Tom" Bradley -- Al Prentice "Bunchy" Carter -- Odessa Cox -- Chapter 5. The Black City -- Douglas F. …”
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American radiance by Muradyan Tannahill, Luisa

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Songs for fat people : affect, emotion, and celebrity in the Russian popular song, 1900-1955 by MacFadyen, David, 1964-

Table of Contents: “…Affectation and buffoonery: Leonid Utesov and Odessa Jazz -- 6. Klavdiia Shul'zhenko: "Let's have a smoke, comrade!" …”
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Songs for fat people : affect, emotion, and celebrity in the Russian popular song, 1900-1955 by MacFadyen, David, 1964-

Table of Contents: “…Affectation and buffoonery: Leonid Utesov and Odessa Jazz -- 6. Klavdiia Shul'zhenko: "Let's have a smoke, comrade!" …”
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Jascha Heifetz : early years in Russia by Kopytova, G. V., Starkova-Heifetz, Albina

Table of Contents: “…Petersburg -- Summer 1911 : Concerts in Pavlovsk and Odessa -- Fall 1911 : In the Class of Professor Auer -- The Beginning of 1912 -- 1912 : First Trip to Germany -- 1912 : A German Tour -- The Beginning of 1913 -- Summer-Fall 1913 : Loschwitz -- Winter 1913-1914 : Bar Mitzvah -- Spring 1914 -- Summer-Fall 1914 : War -- January-September 1915 -- The End of 1915 -- The First Half of 1916 -- The Second Half of 1916 : Norway and Denmark -- The First Half of 1917 : February Revolution -- Summer 1917 : Departure for America -- Appendix 1 : Reviews of Jascha Heifetz's Debut at Carnegie Hall, October 27, 1917 -- Appendix 2 : Jascha Heifetz's Repertoire in Russia.…”
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Literary passports : the making of modernist Hebrew fiction in Europe by Pinsker, Shachar

Table of Contents: “…Spatializing the margins : Hebrew modernism and the urban experience -- Odessa and Warsaw : a tale of two centers? -- Homel and Lvov : the significance of the frontiers -- London : a foggy day in Whitechapel -- Vienna : "this mocking and innocent city" -- Berlin : between the Scheunenviertel and the Romanisches café -- The sexual turn in modernist fiction of fin de siècle Europe -- "I am so weak and my desire is so strong" : the crisis of (Jewish) masculinity -- In the house and in the gardens : erotic triangulations and homosocial desire -- Writing, masculinity and sexual desire -- Imagining the beloved : the new (Jewish) woman -- Old wine in new flasks : the reinvention of Jewish traditions -- In the shadow of God : the quest for new religiosity in European and Hebrew modernism -- Mysterium tremendum : the varieties of religious experience in Hebrew modernism -- Out of the depths : visions and guiding spirits -- Appendix : the meaning of Hasidism and its echoes in modern Hebrew literature (1906) / Yosef Chaim Brenner.…”
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