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City of Rogues and Schnorrers
Jarrod Tanny
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Description for City of Rogues and Schnorrers
paperback. Odessa--celebrated and vilifi ed as a Jewish city of sin Num Pages: 288 pages, 10 b&w illus. BIC Classification: 1DVUK; GTB; HBJD; HBTB; JFSR1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 430.
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 and beyond. The book shows ... Read more
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Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Indiana University Press United States
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
Number of Pages
288
Place of Publication
Bloomington, IN, United States
ISBN
9780253223289
SKU
V9780253223289
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About Jarrod Tanny
Jarrod Tanny is Assistant Professor of History and Block Distinguished Fellow of History at the University of North Carolina, Wilmington.
Reviews for City of Rogues and Schnorrers
Tanny delivers readers an inspired analysis of Odessa's role in Soviet history as a city that fueled cultural irreverence throughout the humorlessness of the Tsarist and Soviet ages.
newbooksinrussianstudies.com
[T]he book is a wonderful read, deeply infused with erudition and literary sensitivity, and an important complement to our understanding of Odessa and Russian Jewish history.
Marginalia
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newbooksinrussianstudies.com
[T]he book is a wonderful read, deeply infused with erudition and literary sensitivity, and an important complement to our understanding of Odessa and Russian Jewish history.
Marginalia
... Read more