Jarrod Tanny

Tanny, then a professor of history at Ohio University, was hired in 2010 as the inaugural Block Scholar, a professorship named in honour of the parents of former State Senator Frank Block (American politician).^[3] His scholarly interests include Jewish humour and Russian Jewish history.^[4][2]

Tanny's 2011 book, City of Rogues and Schnorrers, explores Jewish life in 19th-century Odesa, Ukraine (then part of the Russian Empire), a free port and boomtown with a reputation for attracting "gangsters and swindlers..." along with ambitious men and women, some of whom attained great wealth.^[5][6]

The Slavic and East European Journal, described City of Rogues and Schnorrers as, "serious and funny, informative and amusing, witty and well written."^[7] Reviewer Anna Shternshis cited Tanny's unusual ability to draw on both Russian and Yiddish sources, which she considers to be an important contribution in a field where scholarship has often been confined to a single language.^[8]

• City of Rogues and Schnorrers: Russia's Jews and the Myth of Old Odesa. (Indiana University Press, 2011)^[6][8][9]
• "I Survived Teaching Jewish Studies in North Carolina" (Forward, March 22, 2015).^[1] Also published under the pseudonym Yid In Dixieland as "Bible Belt Blues: Tales of a Professional Canadian Jew in the American Deep South" (Shtetl Montreal, 2011).^[10]
• How To Boycott Israel For Dummies - New Campus Apartheid Edition. (Self-published)^[11]
• Jewish + Woke = Joke. (Self-published)^[12]
• The Gospel of Sarsour. (Self-published)^[13]