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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
You are listening to Hromadske Radio and Iryna Slavinska is at the microphone. This is the program “Encounters” devoted to Ukrainian-Jewish relations in all its spheres from joint history, culture, and literature. The program “Encounters”…
Welcome to Ukrainian Jewish Heritage, a radio series on Nash Holos Ukrainian Roots Radio, sponsored by Toronto, Ontario-based Ukrainian Jewish Encounter. Peter Bejger discusses the recent publication of a new Yiddish-Ukrainian dictionary. Audio is here….
The creator of the Yiddish-Ukrainian dictionary talks about family, history, and the language of the ancestors Dmytro Tyshchenko is the author of the Yiddish-Ukrainian dictionary that was recently published in Kyiv. He was born in…
Dr. Dmytro Tyshchenko talks (in Yiddish) about his new Yiddish-Ukrainian dictionary in Tel Aviv on 11/2/15. The event was sponsored by UJE. Listen here. Read more: UJE Presented in Tel Aviv Dr. Dmytro Tyshchenko, Author…
A new Yiddish-Ukrainian dictionary was presented at Kyiv’s Sholom Aleichem Museum. A striking volume of impressive size, the dictionary is the result of serious work by linguists, translators, and philologists. It will delight connoisseurs and…
