Cosmopolitan Spaces in Odesa: A Case Study of an Urban Context

Published by Academic Studies Press 2023

Cosmopolitan Spaces in Odesa

A Case Study of an Urban Context

Edited by: Mirja Lecke and Efraim Sicher

In the series Ukrainian Studies

https://doi.org/10.1515/9798887192574

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About this book

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.

Author / Editor information

Lecke Mirja :

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.
Sicher Efraim :

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.

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.

Reviews

“…[T]his volume offers an original and vital illumination of the subject…This rich collection with its fascinating analyses is an important contribution to research on Odesa and to larger scholarly debates on cosmopolitanism and urban life. The chapters are interrelated in a coherent and approachable way, each one presenting a different “cosmopolitan space” as a critical lens for assessing the socially diverse environment of Odesa.”

— Marina Sapritsky-Nahum, Russian Review

"A rich, consistently fascinating volume that provides more than ample evidence of the fascination inspired by this city - forever intertwined, of course, with a complex welter of mythology. With use of a wide range of sources, the book is testimony to a scholarly arena that continues to attract impressive talent."

— Steven J. Zipperstein, Daniel E. Koshland Professor in Jewish Culture and History, Stanford University

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	v
List of Illustrations Publicly Available Download PDF	vi
Acknowledgments Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Introduction Mirja Lecke and Efraim Sicher Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
1. Localism and Cosmopolitanism in Odesa: The Case of the Odesan Literary-Artistic Society, 1898–1914 Guido Hausmann Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	21
2. The Ukrainian Odes(s)a of Vladimir Jabotinsky Yohanan Petrovsky-Shtern Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	37
3. Merchants, Clerks, and Intellectuals: The Social Underpinnings of the Emergence of Modern Jewish Culture in Late Nineteenth-Century Odesa Svetlana Natkovich Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	70
4. Elitism and Cosmopolitanism: The Jewish Intelligentsia in Odesa’s School Debates of 1902 Brian Horowitz Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	100
5. Ethnic Violence in a Cosmopolitan City: The October 1905 Pogrom in Odesa Robert Weinberg Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	118
6. The Cosmopolitan Soundscape of Odesa Anat Rubinstein Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	139
7. Gender, Poetry, and Song: Vera Inber and Isa Kremer in Odesa Mirja Lecke Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	165
8. The End of Cosmopolitan Time: Between Myth and Accommodation in Babel’s Odessa Stories Efraim Sicher Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	193
9. Where the Steppe Meets the Sea: Odesa in the Ukrainian City Text Oleksandr Zabirko Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	222
10. The Ukrainization of Odes(s)a? On the Languages of Odesa and Their Use Abel Polese Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	252
11. Rereading Babel in Post-Maidan Odesa: Boris Khersonsky’s Critical Cosmopolitanism Amelia M. Glaser Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	273
Contributors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	305
Bibliography Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	309
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	333

Language: English
Publisher: Academic Studies Press
Audience: Professional and scholarly;
Pages
- Main content: 352
Keywords: Cosmopolitanism; literature; Jews in Russia and Ukraine; nineteenth-twentieth centuries; Odessa; Odesa; Russian Empire; urban culture; Soviet Union; multilingualism; Black Sea

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Published: July 25, 2023
ISBN: 9798887192574