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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: Hromadske Radio, Sponsored Projects, Audio/Visual Media, Literature, Culture, Language

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...

Yiddish as a living language: an important new book

Posted On: August 31st, 2020

Posted In: UJE Initiatives, Culture, Symposia, Language

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...

“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

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

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...

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

Posted On: May 20th, 2020

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

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...

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, Literature, Sponsored Projects, Audio/Visual Media, Culture, Language

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...

Yiddish, in place and time

Posted On: October 25th, 2019

Posted In: Commentary, Jews on Ukrainian Lands, Culture, History, Commentary and Analysis, Language

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...

Chernivtsi: A triumph of Yiddish and Jewish culture

Posted On: August 15th, 2018

Posted In: Culture, Language

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...

The New Yiddish-Ukrainian Dictionary by Linguist Dmytro Tyshchenko

Posted On: February 9th, 2018

Posted In: Hromadske Radio, Publications, Sponsored Projects, Language

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...

Yiddish and Ukrainian at the beginning of the 20th Century

Posted On: December 13th, 2017

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

Newswe.com: Mame-Loshn with a Ukrainian Accent

Posted On: September 16th, 2015

Posted In: Culture, Language

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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The 'Encounter' prize aims to build on the common experiences of Ukrainians and Jews over the centuries, expressed in literature and nonfiction. The Prize will be awarded annually to the most influential work in literature and nonfiction (in alternate years) that fosters Ukrainian-Jewish understanding, helping solidify Ukraine's place as a multi-ethnic society and giving truth to the motto, "Our stories are incomplete without each other."

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

Yiddish as a living language: an important new book

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

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

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

Yiddish, in place and time

Chernivtsi: A triumph of Yiddish and Jewish culture

The New Yiddish-Ukrainian Dictionary by Linguist Dmytro Tyshchenko

Yiddish and Ukrainian at the beginning of the 20th Century

Newswe.com: Mame-Loshn with a Ukrainian Accent

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Encounter: The Ukrainian-Jewish Literary Prize

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