Cosmopolitan Spaces in Odesa: A Case Study of an Urban Context by MirjaLecke and EfraimSicher, eds. Ukrainian Studies. Boston: Academic Studies Press, 2023. 352 pp. $149.00. ISBN 979‐8‐8871‐9256‐7
Journal: The Russian Review
Year: 2024

Odesa has long been considered a cosmopolitan, multiethnic city comprised of various linguistic and religious spheres. The so-called Odesa myth has flourished through a constellation of images and literary references that have cultivated this cosmopolitan aura in the public imagination. Cosmopolitan Spaces in Odesa: A Case Study of an Urban Context, edited by Mirja Lecke and Efraim Sicher, uses the city as a test case for the very idea of cosmopolitanism. This brilliant volume explores how myth