Tanny, Jarrod - Institute of Slavic, East European, and Eurasian … - 2007
Old Odessa has been mythologized as Russia’s gilded city of sin, a multi-ethnic southern seaport bustling with … pleasure-drenched utopia of debauchery on the wild frontiers of the Black Sea. But old Odessa is considered “old†because … old Odessa is over; its golden age of opulence, wily Jewish gangsters, and relentless revelry has passed into history, and …