num_pages: 336
description: Rich and riveting complex and compelling powerful and poetic.Peter M. Gianotti NewsdayIn Odessa the greatest port on the Black Sea a dream of cosmopolitan freedom inspired geniuses and innovators from the writers Alexander Pushkin and Isaac Babel to Zionist activist Vladimir Jabotinsky and immunologist Ilya Mechnikov. Yet here too was death on a staggering scale as World War II brought the mass murder of Jews carried out by the citys Romanian occupiers. 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 Odessas dream in a diaspora reaching all the way to Brighton Beach.
language: English
title: Odessa: Genius and Death in a City of Dreams
publisher: W. W. Norton & Company