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Odesa: Jews in the Modern World
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University of California, Santa Cruz
About Odesa: Jews in the Modern World
In this course, Peter Kenez and Murray Baumgarten, both emeritus professors at UC Santa Cruz, tell the story of the Jews of the Black Sea port of Odesa. Kenez and Baumgarten include music, literature, and history in their analysis of a city like no other. The course is for anyone with an interest in the history and culture of the Jewish people.
What You Will Learn?
- Describe the connection between Odesa as a place of opportunity and abundance, international trade, and modern capitalism.Connect virtuosity with Jewish interculturality and the complications of multilingual cultural production .Describe the ambiguous class and economic status of Jews in the Russian Empire and Pale of Settlement..