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Mapping Urban Cafés and Modern Jewish CultureMain MenuAbout the ProjectSholem Aleichem and Menakhem Mendel travelsThe "Demolished Literature" of Karl Kraus' ViennaSeeing into the Lower East Side CafésOdessa CafesOdessaZoë Wilkinson Saldaña6beb73a90c38e77367b9737ee8e808917759a78eIsabella Buzynski4c5090420af98824ad786b6dac1f314b9e9f95a8
12017-06-27T12:26:49-07:00Café Fanconi11google_maps2018-05-17T05:08:37-07:00The Swiss-owned Café Fanconi was opened in 1872. “By the end of the nineteenth century,” writes the historian Steven Zipperstein, “little was left…of [Odessa’s] Italians or French influences than a smattering of splendid, popular cafés—Café Fanconi was the best well-known.”