Odessa: Genius and Death in a City of Dreams - Ch. King

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Italian merchants, Greek freedom fighters, and Turkish seamen; a Russian empress and her favorite soldier-bureaucrats; Jewish tavern keepers, traders, and journalists―these and many others seeking fortune and adventure rubbed shoulders in Odessa, the greatest port on the Black Sea.

Here a dream of cosmopolitan freedom inspired geniuses and innovators, from Alexander Pushkin and Isaac Babel to Zionist activist Vladimir Jabotinsky and immunologist Ilya Mechnikov. Yet here too was death on a staggering scale: not only the insidious plagues common to seaports but also the mass murder of Jews carried out by the Romanian occupation during World War II. Drawing on a wealth of original source material, 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.

Includes 25 black-and-white illustrations

Voor de inhoud: zie de foto's 2 en 3.

Auteur

: Charles King

Artikelnummer 

: BF7231

Categorie(ën)

: Geschiedenis / Engelstalige boeken

Taal

: Engels

ISBN

: 9780393070842

Uitgever

: W.W. Norton & Comp.

Druk

: 1

Jaar

: 2011

Pagina's

: 336

Bindwijze

: Hardcover, met stofomslag

Conditie

: Goed; lichte verkleuring van de omslag

Afmetingen

: 16 x 24 x 3 cm.

Verzending

: Pakketpost

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