July 2019 - UJE - Ukrainian Jewish Encounter

Memory of the Holocaust during the Soviet period: permitted and proscribed practices

Posted On: July 15th, 2019

Posted In: Hromadske Radio, Sponsored Projects, Audio/Visual Media, The Holocaust in Ukraine, History

The historian Iryna Sklokina discusses the unofficial memory of the Holocaust during Soviet times, the search for unknown heroes, and the struggle to establish monuments. Today we will be talking about a lecture that took…

Ochyma Cultury: Roman Selsky and Margit Selska

Posted On: July 11th, 2019

Posted In: Culture, Visual Arts

Since 2011 Canadian literary scholar, cultural historian, and writer Marko Robert Stech has produced short (8- to 10-minute) Ukrainian-language TV segments Ochyma Cultury («Очима культури») dedicated to little-known and/or underappreciated phenomena in Ukrainian culture or,…

Tales from the Hutsul region, the meeting place of Oleksa Dovbush and Ba`al Shem Tov

Posted On: July 10th, 2019

Posted In: Hromadske Radio, Literature, Sponsored Projects, Audio/Visual Media, Culture, Ethnography

Our featured guest today is Boris Czerny, who teaches Russian language and culture at the University of Caen Normandy in France. On today’s edition of Encounters, we have an opportunity to get to know a…

Viacheslav Chornovil, ‘General of the Zeks’: Fragments from the book “Ukrainian Silhouettes”

Posted On: July 4th, 2019

Posted In: Sponsored Projects, Istorychna Pravda, Other Programs, Diverse Voices

The Leningrad writer [Mikhail Kheifets] ends up behind KGB bars then in a camp in Mordovia, where the entire crème de la crème of the Ukrainian, Lithuanian, Armenian, Zionist, and other anti-communist resistance movements are…

Interview with Dave Bloom

Posted On: July 2nd, 2019

Posted In: Jews on Ukrainian Lands, Nash Holos, Sponsored Projects, Audio/Visual Media, History

Dave Bloom is a member of the board of an organization dedicated to preserving the story of two Jewish communities and surrounding areas in Ukraine. One of them is called Drohobycz and the other is…

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Memory of the Holocaust during the Soviet period: permitted and proscribed practices

Ochyma Cultury: Roman Selsky and Margit Selska

Tales from the Hutsul region, the meeting place of Oleksa Dovbush and Ba`al Shem Tov

Viacheslav Chornovil, ‘General of the Zeks’: Fragments from the book “Ukrainian Silhouettes”

Interview with Dave Bloom