City of rogues and schnorrers : Russia's Jews and the myth of old Odessa / Jarrod Tanny.

Old Odessa, on the Black Sea, gained notoriety as a legendary city of Jewish gangsters and swindlers, a frontier boomtown mythologized for the adventurers, criminals, and merrymakers who flocked there to seek easy wealth and lead lives of debauchery and excess. Odessa is also famed for the brand of...

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Main Author: Tanny, Jarrod
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Bloomington : Indiana University Press, ©2011.
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