City of Rogues and Schnorrers: Russia's Jews and the Myth of Old Odessa AUTH-3449851 Published: 05/15/2011

Published: 05/15/2011

ISBN13: 9781912676972

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City of Rogues and Schnorrers: Russia's Jews and the Myth of Old Odessa AUTH-3449851 Published: 05/15/2011Old 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 Jewish humor brought there in the 19th century from the shtetls of Eastern Europe and that flourished throughout Soviet times. From a broad historical