By Jarrod Tanny

ISBN-10: 0253223288

ISBN-13: 9780253223289

ISBN-10: 0253356466

ISBN-13: 9780253356468

Old Odessa, at the Black Sea, received notoriety as a mythical urban of Jewish gangsters and swindlers, a frontier boomtown mythologized for the adventurers, criminals, and merrymakers who flocked there to hunt effortless wealth and lead lives of debauchery and extra. Odessa is additionally famed for the emblem of Jewish humor introduced there within the nineteenth century from the shtetls of jap Europe and that flourished all through Soviet occasions. From a vast ancient point of view, Jarrod Tanny examines the hybrid Judeo-Russian tradition that emerged in Odessa within the nineteenth century and continued throughout the Soviet period and past. The publication exhibits how the artwork of eminent Soviet-era figures akin to Isaac Babel, Il'ia Ilf, Evgenii Petrov, and Leonid Utesov grew out of the Odessa Russian-Jewish tradition into which they have been born and which formed their lives.

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