Odessa: Genius and Death in a City of Dreams - Rilegato

King, Charles

Rilegato

ISBN 10: 0393070840 ISBN 13: 9780393070842

Casa editrice: W W Norton & Co Inc, 2011

Riassunto

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.

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L'autore:

Charles King lives in Washington, DC, where he is a professor of international affairs and government at Georgetown University. He is the author of four books on Eastern Europe, including The Ghost of Freedom: A History of the Caucasus and The Black Sea: A History, and a frequent commentator on events in the region for television, radio, and the press.

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Book by King Charles

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• Editore: W W Norton & Co Inc
• Data di pubblicazione: 2011
• ISBN 10: 0393070840
• ISBN 13: 9780393070842
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 336