Title Odessa : genius and death in a city of dreams / Charles King.

Publication Info.	New York : W.W. Norton & Co., [2011]
	©2011

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Location	Call No.	Status	OPAC Message	Public Note	Gift Note
Moore Stacks	DK508.95.O33 K5 2011	Available	---

Edition	1st ed.
Description	336 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references (pages 305-323) and index.
Contents	Pt. 1. City of dreams -- ch. 1. The sinister shore -- ch. 2. Potemkin and the mercenaries -- ch. 3. Beacon -- ch. 4. The governor and the poet -- ch. 5. "There is nothing national about Odessa" -- pt. 2. The habitations of cruelty -- ch. 6. Schemes and shadows -- ch. 7. Blood and vengeance -- ch. 8. New world -- ch. 9. The fields of Transnistria --ch. 10. "I would like to bring to your attention the following" -- pt. 3. Nostalgia and remembrance -- ch. 11. Hero city -- ch. 12. Twilight -- Chronology.
Summary	Describes the vibrant Black Sea port city of Odessa and the thriving Jewish population that included Alexander Pushkin, Isaac Babel, and Zionist activist Vladimir Jabotinsky, and examines the mass murders of the Romanian occupation during World War II.
Subject	Odesa (Ukraine) -- History.
	Odesa (Ukraine) -- Social conditions.
	Odesa (Ukraine) -- Biography.
	Jews -- Ukraine -- Odesa -- History.
	Jews.
	Ukraine -- Odesa.
	History.
	Social change -- Ukraine -- Odesa -- History.
	Social change.
	Cultural pluralism -- Ukraine -- Odesa -- History.
	Cultural pluralism.
	Cosmopolitanism -- Ukraine -- Odesa -- History.
	Cosmopolitanism.
	Genius -- Social aspects -- Ukraine -- Odesa -- History.
	Genius.
	Social aspects.
	Ukraine.
	Cruelty -- Social aspects -- Ukraine -- Odesa -- History.
	Cruelty -- Social aspects.
	Cruelty.
	Death -- Social aspects -- Ukraine -- Odesa -- History.
	Death -- Social aspects.
Genre/Form	Biographies.
	Biographies.
ISBN	9780393070842 hardback
	0393070840 hardback

Title Odessa : genius and death in a city of dreams / Charles King.

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