Ukrainian Jewish Encounter (UJE) is a Canadian philanthropic organization that has been working since 2008 to strengthen relations between our two peoples. This year marks the sixth time we are presenting our organization’s initiatives and…
I will try to define Franko’s attitude to Jews, which ranges from sincere Judeophilism to radical Judeophobia. This ambiguity in the interpretation of his views intensified after the fall of the communist regime in Ukraine….
The translator Victor Radutzky discusses translations from Hebrew to Ukrainian and the reverse; Amos Oz, Shmuel Yosef Agnon, and Vasyl Stus; and Kyiv and Jerusalem. Iryna Slavinska: Our guest on the program today is an…
In Buchach, the roosters wake up at four o’clock in the morning. Perhaps the voices of the Buchach roosters have not changed since [Shem’uel Yosef] Agnon lived in the city. And now, during my stay…
Many among us indeed consider Taras Shevchenko a linguistic curiosity. To them, it appears to be an oddity, a curiosity: the man had an excellent command of Russian and was able to pen his poems…
Several weeks ago we posted Marko Robert Stech’s television segment Ochyma Cultury («Очима культури») № 97, dedicated to prominent Lviv artists Roman Selsky and Magrit (Reich) Selska. Dr. Stech, a Canadian literary scholar, cultural historian,…
Maryana Maksymiak on the Agnon Literary Center in Buchach and Agnon House in Jerusalem. Iryna Slavinska: Maryna Maksymiak recently returned from a trip to Israel, where the work of the Agnon Center was presented. Many…
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…
Aharon Appelfeld and Amos Oz are two Israeli literary giants who died in 2018, nearly a year apart. Although they were writers from Israel, how many people know both were deeply connected to lands that…
The Yiddish literature specialist Moshe Lemster talks about the Bessarabian fabulist Eliezer Shteynbarg. Andriy Kobalia: In the late nineteenth century, in a frontier village in Khotyn County, Bessarabia gubernia, fables began to be written by…
