City of Rogues and Schnorrers: Russia's Jews and the Myth of Old Odessa by Jarrod Tanny

City of Rogues and Schnorrers: Russia's Jews and the Myth of Old Odessa

Jarrod Tanny

265 pages first pub 2011 (editions)

nonfiction history informative reflective medium-paced
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Old 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 debauche...

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