Odessa Mama
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Odessa Mama may refer to:
- Odessa Mama - a term used by the people of OdessaOdessaOdessa or Odesa is the administrative center of the Odessa Oblast located in southern Ukraine. The city is a major seaport located on the northwest shore of the Black Sea and the fourth largest city in Ukraine with a population of 1,029,000 .The predecessor of Odessa, a small Tatar settlement,...
(and not only people from Odessa refer to Odessa as "mama") to lovingly refer to their city as "mother" - Odessa Mama (song)Odessa Mama (song)For the disambiguation page and the term Odessa Mama used to reference the city, see Odessa Mama Odessa Mama is a Yiddish song of Ukrainian origin, which enjoyed popularity in numerous East European countries, as well as the United States before the Holocaust...
- a popular traditional Ukrainian Yiddish song