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    Returning Agnon to Ukraine

    Posted On: July 29th, 2017
    Posted In: Agnon Literary Centre, Publications, Sponsored Projects, Literature, Culture

    In 1966, the Israeli writer Shmuel Yosef Agnon was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature for his book A Guest for the Night.  Set in the eastern Galician town of Buchach after the First World...

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    Andrei Sheptytsky did everything possible to save Jews during the Holocaust: Historian Yaroslav Kit

    Posted On: July 28th, 2017
    Posted In: Hromadske Radio, Sponsored Projects, History, Metropolitan Andrei Sheptytsky

    On today’s program Yaroslav Kit, Doctor of Philosophy at the Institute of Religion and Society, talks about Andrei Sheptytsky. Iryna Slavinska:  You are listening to Hromadske Radio. Iryna Slavinska is in the studio, and this...

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    The Ukrainian City of Zolochiv Marks the Birthday of a Jewish Native Son—Nobel Prize Laureate Roald Hoffmann

    Posted On: July 21st, 2017
    Posted In: Jews on Ukrainian Lands, History

    The citizens of Zolochiv as well as the world’s scientific community celebrated on 18 July 2017 the 80th birthday of Roald Hoffmann, believed to be the last remaining living Nobel Prize laureate from Ukrainian lands. Hoffmann was born...

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    Babyn Yar’s Brutal Multi-layered History Revealed in an Important New Study

    Posted On: July 20th, 2017
    Posted In: Publications, UJE Initiatives, Book Fairs/Festivals, Sponsored Projects, The Holocaust in Ukraine, History, Outreach

    Babyn Yar today is a tree-lined park on the outskirts of Kyiv that offers the city’s residents refuge from the scorching summer heat. Seventy-five years ago, this peaceful setting of parkland was the site of...

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    Nash Holos: Faina Petryakova

    Posted On: July 19th, 2017
    Posted In: Nash Holos, Sponsored Projects, Audio/Visual Media, Culture, Ethnography

      The Faina Petryakova Center for Judaica and Jewish Art was set up to commemorate the life of Faina Petryakova – a scholar and a passionate defender and promoter of Jewish art. Petryakova was born...

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    Ukrainian Literature Breaks Through into the Hebrew-speaking World

    Posted On: July 6th, 2017
    Posted In: Book Fairs/Festivals, Publications, Literature, Sponsored Projects, Outreach

    The author and poet Kateryna Babkina represented Ukraine at the Jerusalem International Book Fair 2017. Babkina presented her book of poetry Dlia vsikh odnakove poprosy [Ask the Same for Everybody], translated by Anton Paperny into...

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    Lviv: Not just the history of a place and of buildings, but the history of people

    Posted On: July 6th, 2017
    Posted In: Hromadske Radio, Sponsored Projects, Audio/Visual Media, The Holocaust in Ukraine, History

     [Editor’s note: Lviv’s Space of Synagogues project was unveiled on Sept. 4, 2016. We are running the transcript of an interview with Sofia Dyak of the Center for Urban History that originally aired last year...

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