This interdisciplinary study of cosmopolitan spaces in Odesa explores topical issues in cultural diversity, ethnicity, literature, and socio-economic history. The book brings together leading scholars in a ground-breaking discussion of relations between Russians, Jews, and Ukrainians in one of the most fascinating multiethnic cities in eastern Europe.
This interdisciplinary study of cosmopolitan spaces in Odesa explores topical issues in cultural diversity, ethnicity, literature, and socio-economic history. The book brings together leading scholars in a ground-breaking discussion of relations between Russians, Jews, and Ukrainians in one of the most fascinating multiethnic cities in eastern Europe.Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
Mirja Lecke is Professor of Slavic Literatures and Cultures at the University of Regensburg, Germany. Her academic interests include Polish literature as well as Russian literature of the imperial and post 1991 eras in their entanglements with neighboring cultures. She is the author of Westland: Polen und die Ukraine in der russischen Literatur von Puškin bis Babel' (Peter Lang, 2015), a monograph about the representation of the Western borderlands in Russian imperial literature, and with Elena Chkhaidze she co-edited Rossiia – Gruziia posle imperii [Russia – Georgia after empire] (Novoe literaturnoe obozrenie, 2018), a volume on Russian-Georgian literary relations in the post-Soviet era. Efraim Sicher is Emeritus Professor of Comparative Literature at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel. He has published widely on modern Jewish culture, including Jews in Russian Literature After the October Revolution: Writers and Artists Between Apostasy and Hope (Cambridge University Press, 1995), and has edited the unexpurgated stories of Isaak Babel in Russian, English, and Hebrew. His book Babel in Context was published by Academic Studies Press in 2012. Among his recent books are The Jew’s Daughter: A Cultural History of a Conversion Narrative (Lexington Books, 2017); Re-envisioning Jewishness: Reflections on Identity in Contemporary Jewish Culture (Brill, 2021); and Postmodern Love in the Contemporary Jewish Imagination: Negotiating Identities and Spaces (Routledge, 2022). His new book (with Daniel Feldman), Poesis in Extremis: Literature Witnessing the Holocaust is forthcoming from Bloomsbury.
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List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction Mirja Lecke and Efraim Sicher 1. Localism and Cosmopolitanism in Odesa: The Case of the Odesan Literary-Artistic Society, 1898–1914 Guido Hausmann 2. The Ukrainian Odes(s)a of Vladimir Jabotinsky Yohanan Petrovsky-Shtern 3. Merchants, Clerks, and Intellectuals: The Social Underpinnings of the Emergence of Modern Jewish Culture in Late Nineteenth-Century Odesa Svetlana Natkovich 4. Elitism and Cosmopolitanism: The Jewish Intelligentsia in Odesa’s School Debates of 1902 Brian Horowitz 5. Ethnic Violence in a Cosmopolitan City: The October 1905 Pogrom in Odesa Robert Weinberg 6. The Cosmopolitan Soundscape of Odesa Anat Rubinstein 7. Gender, Poetry, and Song: Vera Inber and Isa Kremer in Odesa Mirja Lecke 8. The End of Cosmopolitan Time: Between Myth and Accommodation in Babel’s Odesa Stories Efraim Sicher 9. Where the Steppe Meets the Sea: Odesa in the Ukrainian City Text Oleksandr Zabirko 10. The Ukrainization of Odes(s)a? On the Languages of Odesa and Their Use Abel Polese 11. Rereading Babel in Post-Maidan Odesa: Boris Khersonsky’s Critical Cosmopolitanism Amelia M. Glaser Contributors Bibliography Index
List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction Mirja Lecke and Efraim Sicher 1. Localism and Cosmopolitanism in Odesa: The Case of the Odesan Literary-Artistic Society, 1898–1914 Guido Hausmann 2. The Ukrainian Odes(s)a of Vladimir Jabotinsky Yohanan Petrovsky-Shtern 3. Merchants, Clerks, and Intellectuals: The Social Underpinnings of the Emergence of Modern Jewish Culture in Late Nineteenth-Century Odesa Svetlana Natkovich 4. Elitism and Cosmopolitanism: The Jewish Intelligentsia in Odesa’s School Debates of 1902 Brian Horowitz 5. Ethnic Violence in a Cosmopolitan City: The October 1905 Pogrom in Odesa Robert Weinberg 6. The Cosmopolitan Soundscape of Odesa Anat Rubinstein 7. Gender, Poetry, and Song: Vera Inber and Isa Kremer in Odesa Mirja Lecke 8. The End of Cosmopolitan Time: Between Myth and Accommodation in Babel’s Odesa Stories Efraim Sicher 9. Where the Steppe Meets the Sea: Odesa in the Ukrainian City Text Oleksandr Zabirko 10. The Ukrainization of Odes(s)a? On the Languages of Odesa and Their Use Abel Polese 11. Rereading Babel in Post-Maidan Odesa: Boris Khersonsky’s Critical Cosmopolitanism Amelia M. Glaser Contributors Bibliography Index
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