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"Rich and riveting, complicated and compelling, powerful and poetic." (Peter M. Gianotti, Newsday) In Odessa, the best port on the Black colored Sea, a dream of cosmopolitan freedom encouraged geniuses and innovators, from the writers Alexander Pushkin and Isaac Babel to Zionist activist Vladimir Jabotinsky and immunologist Ilya Mechnikov. Yet here too was fatality on an astounding level, as World Battle II helped bring the mass murder of Jews completed by the city's Romanian occupiers. Odessa is an elegy for the radiant, multicultural tapestry of which a thriving Jewish population developed an important part, as well as a celebration of the survival of Odessa's fantasy in a diaspora getting completely to Brighton Beach.
