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  • “Besides its presence in biblical texts, classical Hebrew appears on stelae, plaques, and even on cave walls”— Dmytro Tsolin

    Posted On: November 16th, 2020
    Posted In: Literature

    Our guest on the show is Dmytro Tsolin, Doctor of Philology, professor, director of the Center for Jewish Studies at the National University of Ostroh, associate professor at Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, and the author...

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    Yiddish as a living language: an important new book

    Posted On: August 31st, 2020
    Posted In: UJE Initiatives, Symposia, Culture, Culture, Culture, Culture, Culture, Culture, Culture, Culture

    In the summer of 2020, the Kyiv-based publishing house Dukh i Litera issued the proceedings of the Fifth International Commemorative Conference of Yiddish Language and Culture. This important academic forum, which was held in August 2018 at...

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    “Chutzpah triggers not just shock but admiration”: Oksana Forostyna talks about a new word in the vocabulary of Ukrainian journalists

    Posted On: July 20th, 2020
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    In the studio with me today is Oksana Forostyna, who is one of the members of the Nestor Group, a publisher, and a translator. We will be talking with this thinker and columnist about a...

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    How the Europe Island Festival works with “chamber” languages: The history of Hebrew and Yiddish

    Posted On: May 20th, 2020
    Posted In: Culture

    Today we will be talking about literature and translation. It is especially gratifying to be discussing all this via the example of a young, very ambitious, and successful festival called Europe Island, which is held...

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    Ukrainian-Jewish literary contacts, contemporary translations from the Yiddish, and new research: Results of the Odesa conference

    Posted On: February 17th, 2020
    Posted In: Hromadske Radio, Hromadske Radio, Hromadske Radio, Hromadske Radio, Hromadske Radio, Sponsored Projects, Audio/Visual Media, Sponsored Projects, Literature, Sponsored Projects, Sponsored Projects, Audio/Visual Media, Sponsored Projects, Audio/Visual Media, Audio/Visual Media

    Today our talk is taking place in connection with a conference that took place recently in Odesa and which was devoted to the topic of Ukrainian-Jewish relations and Ukrainian-Jewish literary contacts. Our guest is Oleksandra...

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    Yiddish, in place and time

    Posted On: October 25th, 2019
    Posted In: Commentary, Jews on Ukrainian Lands, History, Commentary and Analysis

    CHERNIVTSI — I wanted to hear Yiddish. The Yiddish that Wolf Moskovich – professor emeritus of the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, board member of the Ukrainian Jewish Encounter and Chernivtsi native – spoke about only...

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    Chernivtsi: A triumph of Yiddish and Jewish culture

    Posted On: August 15th, 2018
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    The conference on the Yiddish language, dedicated to the 110th anniversary of the first such conference in 1908, once again filled Chernivtsi with the language and culture of the Jewish people. This city hosted numerous...

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    The New Yiddish-Ukrainian Dictionary by Linguist Dmytro Tyshchenko

    Posted On: February 9th, 2018
    Posted In: Publications

    Dmytro Tyshchenko is a Ukrainian philologist and a Germanist who specializes in Yiddish. He created the Yiddish-Russian (2013) and the Yiddish-Ukrainian (2014) dictionaries. Before a presentation of his dictionary in Beth Sholem Aleichem in Tel...

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    Yiddish and Ukrainian at the beginning of the 20th Century

    Posted On: December 13th, 2017
    Posted In: Hromadske Radio, Sponsored Projects, Audio/Visual Media, Language, Language, Language, Language, Language, Language, Language, Language, Language, Language

    You are listening to Hromadske Radio. Today on the program Encounters we are discussing Gennady Estraikh’s book Culture in the Yiddish Language: Ukraine, the First Half of the Twentieth Century. It is presented by Oleksandra...

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    Newswe.com: Mame-Loshn with a Ukrainian Accent

    Posted On: September 16th, 2015
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    Izabella Slutsky, Tel Aviv Editor’s note: Dmytro Tyshchenko’s Yiddish-Ukrainian dictionary was voted one of the best books of 2015 at the Lviv Book Forum. The following is an interview with Mr. Tyshchenko that appeared earlier...

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