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  • 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...

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    Who was the creator of the Jewish Renaissance in Chernivtsi?

    Posted On: June 24th, 2019
    Posted In: Jews on Ukrainian Lands, Hromadske Radio, Sponsored Projects, Audio/Visual Media, Culture, History, Ethnography

    The historian Iryna Yavorska talks about “Jerusalem on the Prut River” after the war, Soviet propaganda, and the Yiddish language in Chernivtsi. Andriy Kobalia:  The Second World War changed the face of many Ukrainian cities....

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    The Meridian: Chernivtsi

    Posted On: May 13th, 2019
    Posted In: Jews on Ukrainian Lands, History, Ethnography

    Chernivtsi inspires the imagination. Sitting at the crossroads of great empires, this western Ukrainian city located in the country’s famed Bukovyna region was home to a myriad of writers, artists, musicians and ethnic groups, each...

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    A historian reveals who built the Actor’s House

    Posted On: May 3rd, 2019
    Posted In: Hromadske Radio, Sponsored Projects, Audio/Visual Media, Culture, Architecture, Ethnography

    Kyiv expert Mykhailo Kalnytsky discusses Moorish architecture in Kyiv, the Karaites, and a mysterious building on Yaroslaviv Val Street.  Andriy Kobalia:  In Kyiv, not far from the Golden Gates, is an extraordinary old building. It...

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    Christmas as an “Ecumenical Picnic” and a community meeting in urban space

    Posted On: December 12th, 2018
    Posted In: Hromadske Radio, Sponsored Projects, Audio/Visual Media, Culture, Ethnography, Religion

    During the winter holidays, when markets were being held in cities, an encounter of various ethnic and religious communities in a single, common space took place on a central square. Diana Klochko is at the...

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    The magic of Kharkiv

    Posted On: April 19th, 2018
    Posted In: Culture, Diverse Voices, Ethnography

    We are pleased to present a short video about Kharkiv, its history, and the city’s Jewish community and student population. Narrated by Maksym Rozenfeld, a well-known Kharkiv-based regional historian, art historian, architect, and lecturer at...

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    Russian Jewish author chronicles wartime horrors in Austrian-ruled Galicia

    Posted On: December 20th, 2017
    Posted In: Nash Holos, Sponsored Projects, Audio/Visual Media, Culture, Ethnography

    “I saw that that the windows of these ruined houses were stuffed with rags or boarded up. In these unheated kennels were human beings, whole families, starving, usually sick because all kinds of epidemics were...

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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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    The Jewish Museum in Lviv Needs to be Revived

    Posted On: February 16th, 2017
    Posted In: Culture, Ethnography

    An announcement of an initiative from the Ukrainian Civic Group for the Restoration of the Activities of the Jewish Museum in Lviv The Jewish Museum in Lviv opened on 17 June 1934 in a Jewish...

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    Redefining the Traditional Vertep: An Issue in Ukrainian-Jewish Relations

    Posted On: January 13th, 2017
    Posted In: Hromadske Radio, Sponsored Projects, Audio/Visual Media, Culture, Ethnography

    The culturologist Diana Klochko talks about the tradition of the vertep, [a type of Ukrainian puppet theater re-enacting the Nativity—Trans.] and the contemporaneity of vertep characters that represent national minorities: Jews, Roma, Armenians, and others....

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