''The Odessa Review'' was a print English language cultural magazine founded and named after the Ukrainian city of

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that existed between 2016 and 2019. Based for most of its history in Odesa, the magazine's office moved to Kyiv in 2018. Magazine's primary focus was on topics related to the literary and intellectual life of Odesa and Ukraine in general. Between 2016 and 2019 the magazine published thirteen issues in print form and online (Quarterly issues as well as a pair of special issues).

History

''The Odessa Review'' was launched in 2016. The first issue of the magazine included an extended interview with Odessa-based conductor Hobart Earle. In August 2017 the magazine took part in the “Odessa Reads. Odessa Is Read” Isaac Babel themed literary flashmob in the summer of 2017. In October 2017, the magazine put out a special issue related to Jewish-Ukrainian relations. ''The Odessa Review'' was closed in 2019.

Contributors

Noteworthy contributors included, among others, Ukrainian blogger Nick Holmov, Ukrainian art critic Ute Kilter, Russian poet

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Editor-in-chief

The founder and editor-in-chief of ''The Odessa Review'' until 2018 was Vladislav Davidzon, a Paris-based journalist for the Tablet magazine of Uzbek-Jewish and

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References

External links

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