Cosmopolitan Spaces in Odesa : : A Case Study of an Urban Context / / ed. by Mirja Lecke, Efraim Sicher.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Academic Studies Press Complete eBook-Package 2023
• MitwirkendeR: Glaser, Amelia M.,; Hausmann, Guido,; Horowitz, Brian,; Lecke, Mirja,; Natkovich, Svetlana,; Petrovsky-Shtern, Yohanan,; Polese, Abel,; Rubinstein, Anat,; Sicher, Efraim,; Weinberg, Robert,; Zabirko, Oleksandr,
• HerausgeberIn: Lecke, Mirja,; Sicher, Efraim,
• Place / Publishing House: Boston, MA : : Academic Studies Press, , [2023]; ©2023
• Year of Publication: 2023
• Language: English
• Series: Ukrainian Studies
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (352 p.)

Cosmopolitan Spaces in Odesa: A Case Study of an Urban Context is the first book to explore Odesa’s cosmopolitan spaces in an urban context from the nineteenth to twenty-first centuries. Leading scholars shed new light on encounters between Jewish, Ukrainian, and Russian cultures. They debate different understandings of cosmopolitanism as they are reflected in Odesa’s rich multilingual culture, ranging from intellectual history and education to music, opera, and literature. The issues of language and interethnic tensions, imperialist repression, and language choice are still with us today. Moreover, the book affords a historical view of what lay behind the Odesa myth, as well as insights into the Jewish and Ukrainian cultural revivals of the early twentieth century.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Localism and Cosmopolitanism in Odesa: The Case of the Odesan Literary-Artistic Society, 1898–1914 -- 2. The Ukrainian Odes(s)a of Vladimir Jabotinsky -- 3. Merchants, Clerks, and Intellectuals: The Social Underpinnings of the Emergence of Modern Jewish Culture in Late Nineteenth-Century Odesa -- 4. Elitism and Cosmopolitanism: The Jewish Intelligentsia in Odesa’s School Debates of 1902 -- 5. Ethnic Violence in a Cosmopolitan City: The October 1905 Pogrom in Odesa -- 6. The Cosmopolitan Soundscape of Odesa -- 7. Gender, Poetry, and Song: Vera Inber and Isa Kremer in Odesa -- 8. The End of Cosmopolitan Time: Between Myth and Accommodation in Babel’s Odessa Stories -- 9. Where the Steppe Meets the Sea: Odesa in the Ukrainian City Text -- 10. The Ukrainization of Odes(s)a? On the Languages of Odesa and Their Use -- 11. Rereading Babel in Post-Maidan Odesa: Boris Khersonsky’s Critical Cosmopolitanism -- Contributors -- Bibliography -- Index