This interdisciplinary study of cosmopolitan spaces in Odesa explores topical issues in cultural diversity, ethnicity, literature, and socio-economic history. The book brings together leading scholars in a ground-breaking discussion of relations between Russians, Jews, and Ukrainians in one of the most fascinating multiethnic cities in eastern Europe.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Mirja Lecke and Efraim Sicher
1. Localism and Cosmopolitanism in Odesa: The Case of the Odesan Literary-Artistic Society, 1898–1914
Guido Hausmann
2. The Ukrainian Odes(s)a of Vladimir Jabotinsky
Yohanan Petrovsky-Shtern
3. Merchants, Clerks, and Intellectuals: The Social Underpinnings of the Emergence of Modern Jewish Culture in Late Nineteenth-Century Odesa
Svetlana Natkovich
4. Elitism and Cosmopolitanism: The Jewish Intelligentsia in Odesa’s School Debates of 1902
Brian Horowitz
5. Ethnic Violence in a Cosmopolitan City: The October 1905 Pogrom in Odesa
Robert Weinberg
6. The Cosmopolitan Soundscape of Odesa
Anat Rubinstein
7. Gender, Poetry, and Song: Vera Inber and Isa Kremer in Odesa
Mirja Lecke
8. The End of Cosmopolitan Time: Between Myth and Accommodation in Babel’s Odesa Stories
Efraim Sicher
9. Where the Steppe Meets the Sea: Odesa in the Ukrainian City Text
Oleksandr Zabirko
10. The Ukrainization of Odes(s)a? On the Languages of Odesa and Their Use
Abel Polese
11. Rereading Babel in Post-Maidan Odesa: Boris Khersonsky’s Critical Cosmopolitanism
Amelia M. Glaser
Contributors
Bibliography
Index
