Welcome to Ukrainian Jewish Heritage on Nash Holos Ukrainian Roots Radio. I’m Peter Bejger. It’s never too late to have a happy childhood. An astonishing new film called Shimon’s Returns proves the point in a…
The Ukrainian novelist Oksana Zabuzhko once wrote, “We, the poor relatives of the European household, have but a meager chance of being heard in the post-informational world.” Zabuzhko was writing for a specifically Western readership…
The Israeli premiere of the new documentary Crimea: As It Was (2016), which took place against the background of skyscrapers in the heart of Tel Aviv, was a resounding success. The film recounts the personal…
Director/producer of the documentary David Novack describes the remarkable experience of following in footsteps of the Soviet writer.
On the 75th anniversary of Ukrainian-Russian writer Isaac Babel’s execution, Finding Babel follows his 45-year old grandson Andrei Malaev-Babel on a journey to come closer to some sense of truth. Hoping to better understand Babel’s…
The Kharkiv branch of the Zionist youth organization “Ha-Shomer Ha-Tsair” shot the short film So. Dom. Bass. The movie was screened at a festival of Jewish short cinema in Minsk, Belarus on December 13-14, 2014….