Odessa
Genius and Death in a City of Dreams
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Odessadescribes the vibrant Black Sea port city of Odessa and the thriving Jewish population that included Alexander Pushkin, Isaac Babel, Zionist activist Vladimir Jabotinsky and immunologist Ilya Mechnikov and the mass murders of the Romanian occupation during World War II.
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Culture Clash: At Borders, Between Muslims And In Odessa
In the summer of 1867, when Mark Twain stepped ashore in the Black Sea port city of Odessa, then part of the Russian Empire, he found a cosmopolitan crossroads teeming with people from all over the empire and beyond. The city's melting-pot nature reminded Twain of the U.S. In Odessa, Charles King writes that while the city was only a few years younger than Washington, D.C. — it was founded in 1794 by Catherine the Great — it already had a rich history. Still, the city's dark side
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