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Book Discussion Video: Jews in the Western Ukrainian National Republic

Posted On: June 7th, 2021

Posted In: Jews on Ukrainian Lands, Literature, Sponsored Projects, Audio/Visual Media, Culture, History

This 21 May book discussion was devoted to the monograph/memoir of Ruben (Reuven) Fahn (1878-1939/1944?) on Jews in the Western Ukrainian National Republic (1918-1919). The book, originally published in 1933 in Yiddish, has been translated…

The author of ‘Hitler’s Furies’ seeks to describe the fate of the women who, without holding official positions in the Third Reich, were perpetrators of the Holocaust: Translator

Posted On: May 27th, 2021

Posted In: Hromadske Radio, Literature, Sponsored Projects, Audio/Visual Media, Culture, The Holocaust in Ukraine, History

We spoke with Viktoria Ivanenko, the translator of this book, written by historian Wendy Lower. Viktoria Ivanenko: The original version of the book Hitler’s Furies: German Women in the Nazi Killing Fields came out in…

The tradition of mutual influence in the cultures of humankind is immense, and we do not know much about it: Leonid Finberg

Posted On: May 10th, 2021

Posted In: Commentary, Hromadske Radio, Literature, Sponsored Projects, Audio/Visual Media, Culture, Commentary and Analysis

A conversation about new books published by Dukh i Litera Our guest on today’s show is Leonid Finberg, director of the Center for the Studies of History and Culture of East European Jewry and editor…

Omer Bartov: “I feel a particular responsibility for understanding the history of the Jewish people”

Posted On: May 5th, 2021

Posted In: Ukraina Moderna, Literature, Sponsored Projects, Culture, The Holocaust in Ukraine, Other Programs, History

Professor Bartov, please tell us what influenced your choice of the profession of historian? What personal factors and people contributed to your choosing research topics? I have been interested in history since my youth, possibly…

Lord, You will open my mouth… Josef Zissels in conversations with Iza Khruslinska

Posted On: April 28th, 2021

Posted In: Dukh i Litera Digital Library, Jews on Ukrainian Lands, Literature, Sponsored Projects, Culture, History

In conversations with the renowned Polish journalist Iza Khruslinska, Josef Zissels – former political prisoner and dissident, head of the Association of the Jewish Organizations and Communities of Ukraine, executive vice-president of the Congress of…

Book Review: Anatomy of a Genocide: The Life and Death of a Town Called Buczacz*

Posted On: April 21st, 2021

Posted In: Ukraina Moderna, Literature, Sponsored Projects, Culture, The Holocaust in Ukraine, Other Programs, History

This review of Omer Bartov’s book Anatomy of a Genocide: The Life and Death of a Town Called Buczacz by Vladyslava Moskalets first appeared in the quarterly journal Ab Imperio (2019. No 2. Pp. 115–122.)….

Honored anti-Semite: How Trofim Kichko became the star of anti-Zionism

Posted On: April 19th, 2021

Posted In: Hadashot, Jews on Ukrainian Lands, Literature, Sponsored Projects, Culture, Other Programs, History

In the final decades of the Soviet era, hundreds of anti-Zionist books and brochures were published in millions of copies. Many authors secured themselves a steady income through their critique of “Jewish bourgeois nationalism.” Yet,…

Taras Shevchenko, “Kobzar”, Bilingual Edition

Posted On: April 15th, 2021

Posted In: Dukh i Litera Digital Library, Literature, Sponsored Projects, Culture

This book, which belongs to the Dukh i Litera digital library project, is a bilingual edition of selected works from Taras Shevchenko’s Kobzar. All Yiddish translations included here were made throughout the 1920s and 1930s…

Rose Ausländer (1901–1988)

Posted On: March 26th, 2021

Posted In: Did You Know?, Literature, Culture

Rose Ausländer (1901-1988) was born in what is now Chernivtsi, Ukraine, which was formerly known as Czernowitz in the Duchy of Bukovina in the Austro-Hungarian Empire. She was a poet of Jewish heritage whose life…

Anna Khromova: To this day, many people in Israel do not realize the Ukrainian language exists

Posted On: March 22nd, 2021

Posted In: Hadashot, Literature, Sponsored Projects, Culture

How long ago did Israel realize that Ukraine is not Russia? What do the People of the Book read? Is there a chance for Ukrainian literature in this Jewish country? Which Israeli authors will we…