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Books
 | Odessa: A history, 1794-1914
by Patricia Herlihy (441 pages). Harvard University Press 1986 ISBN: 0916458156
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 | The Jews of Odessa: A Cultural History, 1794-1881
by Steven J. Zipperstein. Palo Alto: Stanford University Press, 1986 (hardcover, ISBN: 0804712514); 1991 (paperback reprint, ISBN: 0804719624).
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 | Odessa Memories
by Bel Kaufman (Contributor), Oleg Gubar (Contributor), Alexander Rozenboim (Contributor), Nicholas V. Iljine (Editor), Patricia Herlihy (Editor). Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2004 (hardcover, ISBN: 0295983450). (194 pages, 219 illustrations, 169 in color, 50 halftones) In this album of pre-1917 Odessa, Nicolas Iljine has assembled a wealth of old postcards, rare photographs and illustrations from private archives, colorful posters and advertisements, and materials from the Russian National Library that have never before been published, to recapture a lost time in the life of one of the world's great romantic cities. Reviews of Odessa Memories. |
 | Tales Of Old Odessa: Crime And Civility In A City Of Thieves
by Roshanna P. Sylvester. Northern Illinois University Press, 2005, ISBN: 0875803466 |
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Odessa. Facetten einer Stadt im Wandel. Facets of a Changing City by Joachim Baumann, Uwe Moosburger. Pustet Regensburg, 2003, ISBN: 3791718487
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| Odessa Says: Welcome
by Arkadii Abramovich Gaivoron Odessa Pub. House "Mayak", 1962 (There is a 1966 Second edition). |
| Touring Odessa. Guidebook
Publisher: BDRUK, 2004 ISBN: 9668137019 Available here
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| Odessa Atlas
Publisher: Ukrmap, 2000 Available here See full catalogue here Eleven pages of the map can be found here.
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| Odessa: A guidebook
by Anna Nikolaevna Dolzhenkova, Odessa: Mayak Publishing House, 1976
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| Odessa a guide
by G Kononova Raduga Publishers, 1984 |
 | Prince Michael Vorontsov: Viceroy to the Tsar.
by Anthonyl. H. Rhinelander McGill-Queen's University Press. 1990. ISBN: 0773507477 |
Books, fiction
| King of Odessa: A Novel
by Robert A. Rosenstone, Northwestern University Press, 2003 ISBN: 0810119927 Purchase from Amazon.com and help support this site Review on Amazon.com: "Rosenstone takes on the daunting task of imagining the life of Soviet writer Isaac Babel, whose literary reputation was lost/destroyed during the Soviet regime's darkest and most repressive days. In this fictitious re-creation of Babel's return to his hometown before being arrested and executed as a spy, Rosenstone creates the possibility that Babel was actually involved in a plot to help political dissidents flee. This is a tragic cautionary tale, a must-read for those interested in the genre."
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| The Courtyard
by Arkadii Lvov, Alternate spelling: Arkady Lvov, Bantam Dell Pub Group 1989, ISBN: 038523113X (682 pages) Purchase from Amazon.com and help support this site
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| Intermediate Russian: The 12 Chairs
by Slava Paperno, Slavica Pub, 1985, ISBN: 089357144X In both Russian and English (Click here for more on this classic)
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| Encyclopedia of Soviet Writers
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| The Five: A Novel Of Jewish Life In Turn-of-the-century Odessa
by Vladimir Jabotinsky, Cornell University Press, 2005, ISBN: 0801442664 |
Books and Articles, scholarly
| The Greeks of Odessa: Diaspora Leadership in Late Imperial Russia (East European Monographs) by John Athanasios Mazis. New York: Columbia University Press, 2004 (hardcover, ISBN: 0880335459). (160 pages)
Purchase from Amazon.com and help support this site This book examines the activities of the Greeks of South Russia during the Imperial era by focusing on the Greek Benevolent Association of Odessa (GBAO). Odessa had the largest concentration of urban Greeks in the Russian empire, and the Greeks enjoyed economic and social prestige.
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| The Revolution of 1905 in Odessa: Blood on the Steps (Indiana-Michigan Series in Russian and East European Studies)
by Robert Weinberg. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 1993 (hardcover, ISBN: 0253363810). (302 pages) Purchase from Amazon.com and help support this site By demonstrating the intricate relationship among labor unrest, politics, and anti-Semitism, The Revolution of 1905 in Odessa enriches our understanding of the multifaceted dimensions of revolution in the Russian Empire.
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| Odessa and the Problem of Urban Modernization by Frederick W. Skinner in The City in Late Imperial Russia (Indiana-Michigan Series in Russian and East European Studies). Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 1986 (hardcover, ISBN: 0253313708).
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| How Things Were Done in Odessa: Cultural and Intellectual Pursuits in a Soviet City by Maurice Friedberg. Westview Press, 1991 (hardcover, ISBN: 0813379873).
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| The Pogrom of 1905 in Odessa: A Case Study by Robert Weinberg in Pogroms : Anti-Jewish Violence in Modern Russian History. Cambridge University Press, 1992 (hardcover, ISBN: 0521405327). |
| New Voices of Russian Jewry: A Study of the Russian-Jewish Press of Odessa in the Era of the Great Reforms, 1860-1871 (Studies in Judaism in Modern Times, No. 4) by Alexander Orbach. Leiden: Brill Academic Publishers, 1997 (hardcover, ISBN: 9004061754). |
 | Odessa, 1941-1944: A Case Study of Soviet Territory Under Foreign Rule by Alexander Dallin. Iaşi-Oxford-Portland: Center for Romanian Studies, 1998 (hardcover, ISBN: 9739839118).
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 | Commerce and Architecture in Odessa in Late Imperial Russia by Patricia Herlihy in Commerce in Russian Urban Culture 1861-1914, Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2002 (hardcover, ISBN: 0801867509). |
| Port Jews of Odessa and Trieste: A Tale of Two Cities by Patricia Herlihy in Jahrbuch des Simon-Dubnow-Instituts II, München, 2003 (ISBN: 342105522X). |
 | A History of Odessa, the Last Italian Black Sea Colony by Anna Makolkin. Lewiston, NY: Edwin Mellen Press, 2004 (hardcover, ISBN: 0773462724). |
| The Persuasive Power of the Odessa Myth by Patricia Herlihy and Oleg Gubar |
| The Ethnic Composition of the City of Odessa in the Nineteenth Century
by Patricia Herlihy, Harvard Ukrainian Studies, Volume 1, Number 1, March 1977 |
Russian books on Odessa
These two books, confusingly with the same name, are both considered classics, one of the two is considered the best history of Odessa by many Odessites.
| Staraia Odessa: zabytye stranitsy.Istoricheskie ocherki i vospominaniia.
by Aleksandr Mikhailovich de Ribas. Kiev. Mistetstvo, 2004, ISBN: 5936750892 (Reprint, originally published in 1913 by the great-nephew of the founder of Odessa, Joseph De Ribas.) |
Staraia Odessa by Atlas
 | Staraia Odessa, ee durz’iaii i nedrugi.
by Dorothy Genrikhovne Atlas, Lasmy, 1992, ISBN: 5206003484 (Reprint, Original: Odessa, Tekhnik, 1911.) (1992 introduction by Eugene Golubovsky and Oleg Gubar)
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- Entire book online here: Old Odessa
| Старые дома и другие памятные места Одессы English: "Old houses and other memorable places of Odessa" (In Russian--Use this Google translate, or alternatively, babelfish)
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Other language books on Odessa
| Guide Autrement. Odessa, Yalta et la Crimée
by Mathieu Braunstein, Autrement, March 1, 1997, ISBN: 2862606618 (French) |
Online novels about Odessa
- Click here for Mark Twain's account of Odessa from the book The Innocents abroad
- Russica & here
This site has Several Russian books translated into English, including Pushkin's works.
There is also Story Of A Life, Book IV, Years of Hope by Konstantin Paustovsky, described as "A personal and colorful account of life in Odessa right after the revolution." - Creatures That Once Were Men Gorky's book on life in Odessa as a dock worker
Articles on Odessa
- Dozens of articles on Odessa
- The Persuasive Power of the Odessa Myth
- The Pogrom of 1905 in Odessa: A Case Study excerpts
- US towns named Odessa
Odessa English news sites
- Odesskiy Listok Newspaper English version of the monthly newspaper with new stories about Odessa and written by Odessits
- www.odessaglobe.com/welcome_english/ Odessa Globe News
- odessaglobe.com/english/news/news-archive.htm Odessa Globe News archives
- Compiled Magazine and Newspaper articles on Odessa
- news.google.com/news?hl=en&ned=us&q=odessa+ukraine Google News on Odessa, Ukraine
Odessa Media in Russian
- odessa.club.com.ua/ odessa.club.com.ua/
- Газета "Одесский Листок" Русская версия сайта ежемесячной газеты "Одесский Листок" с новыми рассказами одесситов и про Одессу.
- www.paco.net/odessa/media/odessa/index.htm Odessa magazine Одесса
- www.slovo.odessa.ua/ Odessa newspaper Slovo Слово
- www.paco.net.ua/odessa/media/porto-fr/ Odessa newspaper Porto-Franco Порто-Франко
- www.workrest.odessa.ua/ Odessa newspaper Robota e Otdeigh Работа и Отдых (Work and Leisure)
- vecher.od.ua/ Odessa newspaper Dobreigh Vecher Добрый Вечер (Good evening)
- www.birga.od.ua/ Odessa newspaper Berja Биржа
- www.yellowpages.com.od.ua/index.phtml?menu=fc&n=&a=1&cc=105 Yellowpages list 104 newspapers and magazines published in Odessa, If this link is broken, try the www.yellowpages.com.od.ua/ yellowpages homepage.
