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SUMMARY:'Odessa: Genius and Death in a City of Dreams'\, A Public Lecture 
 by Charles King - Professor Charles King\, Georgetown University
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CONTACT:Dr R E Finnin
DESCRIPTION:Charles King (Professor of International Affairs and Governmen
 t at Georgetown University) comes to Cambridge to discuss his recent book\
 , Odessa: Genius and Death in the City of Dreams\, which won a 2011 Nation
 al Jewish Book Award. \n\nFrom charles-king.net:\n\n'Italian merchants\, G
 reek freedom fighters\, and Turkish seamen\; a Russian empress and her fav
 orite soldier-bureaucrats\; Jewish tavern keepers\, traders\, and journali
 sts -- these and many others seeking fortune and adventure rubbed shoulder
 s in Odessa\, the greatest port on the Black Sea. Here a dream of freedom 
 inspired geniuses and innovators\, from Alexander Pushkin and Isaac Babel 
 to Zionist activist Vladimir Jabotinsky and immunologist Ilya Mechnikov. Y
 et here too was death on a staggering scale: not only the insidious plague
 s common to seaports but also the mass murder of Jews carried out by Roman
 ian occupation forces during the Second World War. Drawing on a wealth of 
 original source material\, Odessa is an elegy for a vibrant\, multicultura
 l city as well as a celebration of the survival of Odessa’s dream in a d
 iaspora reaching all the way to Israel and the United States.'
LOCATION:William Mong Hall\, Sidney Sussex College
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