Jerusalem: History of a Global City

Abstract

latter is a transliteration from Russian, not Ukrainian. The same goes for Odesa and Odessa, a Ukrainian city, not a Russian (84). Although Odesa had been a part of the Russian Empire, the author wrote about the 1950s when it was a part of the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic. One can say that such small mistakes that are not strictly related to the book’s central argument may be ignored, but I would reply that the ignorance of such minor errors caused the war in Ukraine. For some, these mistakes are small and insignificant, but for others, they can be a deliberate ideological narrative that Russia uses to justify its military invasion of Ukraine today. I am sure that Valerio Severino has unintentionally made these misspellings, but they result from a careless attitude to details.