aaus-list @ ukrainianstudies.org -- [aaus-list] NY Review of Books Blog: Edge People

["Max Pyziur" <pyz@brama.com>]

NY Review of Books Blog: Edge People
by Tony Judt
http://blogs.nybooks.com/post/407338276/edge-people

" ...
I prefer the edge: the place where countries, communities, allegiances,
affinities, and roots bump uncomfortably up against one another—where
cosmopolitanism is not so much an identity as the normal condition of
life. Such places once abounded. Well into the twentieth century there
were many cities comprising multiple communities and languages—often
mutually antagonistic, occasionally clashing, but somehow coexisting.
Sarajevo was one, Alexandria another. Tangiers, Salonica, Odessa, Beirut,
and Istanbul all qualified—as did smaller towns like Chernovitz and
Uzhhorod. By the standards of American conformism, New York resembles
aspects of these lost cosmopolitan cities: that is why I live here.

..."

Interesting that of the nine cities he mentions, three of them are OOkrayina.

fyi,

MP
pyz@brama.com