Odessa Mama

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Odessa Mama can refer to

  • Odessa Mama - a term used by the people of Odessa to lovingly refer to their city as "mother". The term is a Ukrainian - Russian collocation, and has criminal roots. The cities of Odessa, and Rostov-on-Don, both ports on the Black Sea were run by criminals and were affectionately called "Papa Rostov" and "Odessa Mama" due to their apparent hospitality to criminals [1]
  • Odessa Mama - a popular traditional Ukrainian Yiddish song
  • Odessa Mama Records - an Australian record label
  • Odessa Mama - a sculpture in the Literary Museum courtyard in Odessa, Ukraine
  • Odessa-Mama: Kataly, Kidaly, Shulera - a book in Russian by Anatolii Barbakaru (ISBN 5040028563)
  • Odessa Mama - a novel in Russian by E. Sevela
  • Prosti-Proshchai, Odessa-Mama (Forgive and forget, Odessa-Mama): a book by A.G. Ivanov (ISBN 5-900309-24-X)

[edit] Notes

  1. ^ How It Was Sung in Odessa: At the Intersection of Russian and Yiddish Folk Culture; by Robert A. Rothstein; Slavic Review, Vol. 60, No. 4 (Winter, 2001), pp. 781-801