Introduction

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. List of Illustrations vi
4. Acknowledgments vii
5. Introduction 1
6. 1. Localism and Cosmopolitanism in Odesa: The Case of the Odesan Literary-Artistic Society, 1898–1914 21
7. 2. The Ukrainian Odes(s)a of Vladimir Jabotinsky 37
8. 3. Merchants, Clerks, and Intellectuals: The Social Underpinnings of the Emergence of Modern Jewish Culture in Late Nineteenth-Century Odesa 70
9. 4. Elitism and Cosmopolitanism: The Jewish Intelligentsia in Odesa’s School Debates of 1902 100
10. 5. Ethnic Violence in a Cosmopolitan City: The October 1905 Pogrom in Odesa 118
11. 6. The Cosmopolitan Soundscape of Odesa 139
12. 7. Gender, Poetry, and Song: Vera Inber and Isa Kremer in Odesa 165
13. 8. The End of Cosmopolitan Time: Between Myth and Accommodation in Babel’s Odessa Stories 193
14. 9. Where the Steppe Meets the Sea: Odesa in the Ukrainian City Text 222
15. 10. The Ukrainization of Odes(s)a? On the Languages of Odesa and Their Use 252
16. 11. Rereading Babel in Post-Maidan Odesa: Boris Khersonsky’s Critical Cosmopolitanism 273
17. Contributors 305
18. Bibliography 309
19. Index 333