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OdessaMain MenuCafé Culture in the "Jewish City"The History of OdessaA history inextricable from the Odessa caféOdessa CafésIsabella Buzynski4c5090420af98824ad786b6dac1f314b9e9f95a8
The 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.”
