escribed by Anna Verschik as "a cluster of post-Yiddish varieties of Russian used as a special in-group register by Ashkenazic Jews in Russia", Jewish Russian is sometimes equated with or compared to the particular Yiddish-influenced variety of Russian long spoken in Odessa in today's Ukraine. Though Jewish Russian has been little studied outside Russia, for the past half-century Brooklyn's "Little Odessa" (Brighton Beach and the surrounding neighborhoods) has represented a major concentration of Russian-speaking Jews and appears to be a site for use of the ethnolect.