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The history of the Jews in Odesa dates to 16th century. Since the modern city's founding in 1795, Odesa has been home to one of the largest population of Jews in what is today Ukraine. Odesa was a major center of Eastern European Jewish cultural life.
The founder and editor-in-chief of The Odessa Review until 2018 [9] was Vladislav Davidzon, a Paris-based journalist for the Tablet magazine of Uzbek-Jewish and Russian origin. [ 10 ] [ 11 ] Davidzon is the son of Russian-American Gregory Davidzon, a kingmaker of the Russian-majority community of Brighton Beach, New York and owner of the ...
The 1905 pogrom of Odessa was the worst anti-Jewish pogrom in Odessa's history. Between 18 and 22 October 1905, ethnic Russians, Ukrainians, and Greeks killed over 400 Jews and damaged or destroyed over 1600 Jewish properties. [11]
The New York Times Book Review (NYTBR) is a weekly paper-magazine supplement to the Sunday edition of The New York Times in which current non-fiction and fiction books are reviewed. It is one of the most influential and widely read book review publications in the industry. [ 2 ]
1819 – Odessa becomes a free port. [9] 1821 Church of the Dormition built. [citation needed] Pogrom against Jews. 1824 – Odessa becomes "seat of the governors-general of Novorossia and Bessarabia". [4] 1825 – Archeological Museum founded. [citation needed] 1826 Fyodor Palen in power. Jewish school established. [8] Richelieu Monument unveiled.
In 1993 Zipperstein accepted an invitation to teach Jewish Studies for a semester at the Russian State University for the Humanities, Russia's main center for Archival Studies in Moscow. [2] He was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2023. [3] He has reviewed books for various outlets, including for the New York Times.
In 1901, he wrote "The History of the Jews". [6] In 1912, History of the Jews in America. The book was republished in 1931 and reprinted in 1972. His Yiddish biography was published in 1934 and appeared weekly in the Jewish Morning Journal from September to December 1951.
His books include Orthodox Jews in America (Indiana University Press, 2009), a comprehensive social and cultural history of this group and its relations to other Jews and mainstream American society, and Jews in Gotham (New York University Press, 2012), which chronicles New York Jewry from 1920 to 2010.