Open AccessThe Dark Side of the Moon: Rivalry and Riots for Shelter and OccupationBetween the Greek and Jewish Populations in Multi-ethnic Nineteenth-century Odessa
Author(s) -
Evridiki Sifneos
Publication year - 2007
Publication title -
the historical review/the historical review
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.114
H-Index - 4
eISSN - 1791-7603
pISSN - 1790-3572
DOI - 10.12681/hr.203
Subject(s) - rivalry , solidarity , judaism , ethnic group , greeks , context (archaeology) , competition (biology) , great rift , geography , political science , history , ancient history , law , archaeology , politics , ecology , physics , biology , astronomy , economics , macroeconomics
This article aims to shed light on the competition between Greeks and Jews in the multi-ethnic context of Odessa, suggesting that rivalry was "the dark side of the moon", while the other side was characterised by conviviality, basically through assimilation and upper-class solidarity.