Charles King: Odessa: Genius and Death in a City of Dreams
Odessa: Genius and Death in a City of Dreams
Buch
- W. W. Norton & Company, 02/2011
- Einband: Gebunden
- Sprache: Englisch
- ISBN-13: 9780393070842
- Bestellnummer: 11741696
- Umfang: 336 Seiten
- Gewicht: 634 g
- Maße: 242 x 169 mm
- Stärke: 29 mm
- Erscheinungstermin: 15.2.2011
Achtung: Artikel ist nicht in deutscher Sprache!
Klappentext
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.