Cosmopolitan Spaces in Odesa: A Case Study of an Urban Context
Series: Ukrainian Studies
Edited by Mirja Lecke and Efraim Sicher
Published by: Academic Studies Press
Sales Date: 2023-07-25
Cosmopolitan Spaces in Odesa: A Case Study of an Urban Context is the first book to explore Odesa’s cosmopolitan spaces in an urban context from the nineteenth to twenty-first centuries. Leading scholars shed new light on encounters between Jewish, Ukrainian, and Russian cultures. They debate different understandings of cosmopolitanism as they are reflected in Odesa’s rich multilingual culture, ranging from intellectual history and education to music, opera, and literature. The issues of language and interethnic tensions, imperialist repression, and language choice are still with us today. Moreover, the book affords a historical view of what lay behind the Odesa myth, as well as insights into the Jewish and Ukrainian cultural revivals of the early twentieth century.
Reviewed in Zeitschrift für Slavische Philologie 80.2. (2024)
Reviewed in Journal of Modern Jewish Studies (https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14725886.2024.2410172) (externer Link, öffnet neues Fenster)
Aufzeichnung der Buchpräsentation am IIAS in Jerusalem Juni 2023 /booklaunch event June 2023 at the IIAS, Jerusalem https://www.facebook.com/IIASJerusalem/ (externer Link, öffnet neues Fenster)
Reviewed in the literary supplement to the Hebrew edition of Haaretz Sept 29, 2023
Reviewed in The Russian Review 1-2 2024 by Marina Sapritsky-Nahum (DOI: 10.1111/russ.12619)
Review in Ab imperio 1/2024, pp. 215-219 by Vladyslava Moskalets
