Odessa Memories (Samuel and Althea Stroum Book) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0295983450 ISBN 13: 9780295983455

Publisher: Univ of Washington Pr, 2004

Synopsis

Combines a collector's rare postcards with photographs, maps, colorful posters, and other illustrations to depict everyday life in this international crossroads city from the mid-1800s to the 1917 Revolution.

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About the Author:

Nicolas Iljine, European representative for the Solomon Guggenheim Foundation, has over 30 years experience in cultural exchange with Russia. Patricia Herlihy is research professor at the Watson Institute for International Studies, Brown University, and professor emeritus of history, Brown University. She is the author of Odessa: A History, 1774-1914 in English and Ukrainian. Other contributors include Bel Kaufman, Sholem Aleichem’s granddaughter; Odessa historians Alexander Rozenboim and Oleg Gubar; and translator Antonina Bouis.

From Booklist:

Odessa was founded by Catherine the Great in 1794 and soon became an important center of Jewish culture. This book started out as a collection of postcards of this Russian city on the Black Sea and later came to include illustrations, Jewish periodicals, advertisements, photographs, and circus posters from museums and libraries. There's an essay by Patricia Herlihy and contributions by Bel Kaufman (the granddaughter of Sholem Aleichem, who came from Odessa), Oleg Gubar, and Alexander Rozenboim. Iljine writes that he intended the book's title to remind readers of the vibrant life of the city between the mid-1800s and the Russian Revolution of 1917, since these times were also documented in photographs. Herlihy gives a history of Odessa's nightlife, resorts, theaters, schools, criminal underworld, synagogues, philanthropic societies, phenomenal growth, the colorful mix of ethnic groups, and organizations that provided a defense against pogroms. This opulent book, with 215 illustrations--166 in color--and an informative text, goes a long way in preserving the history of this renowned city. George Cohen
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About this edition

• Publisher: Univ of Washington Pr
• Publication date: 2004
• ISBN 10: 0295983450
• ISBN 13: 9780295983455
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 256
• Editor: Iljine Nicholas V., Herlihy Patricia