Welcome to Ukrainian Jewish Heritage on Nash Holos Ukrainian Roots Radio. I’m Peter Bejger. A young woman working in an office in New York City writes: “I was just another girl in a cubicle, doing…
In 1966, the Israeli writer Shmuel Yosef Agnon was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature for his book A Guest for the Night. Set in the eastern Galician town of Buchach after the First World…
The author and poet Kateryna Babkina represented Ukraine at the Jerusalem International Book Fair 2017. Babkina presented her book of poetry Dlia vsikh odnakove poprosy [Ask the Same for Everybody], translated by Anton Paperny into…
Linor Goralik is a writer, an artist, and columnist. In the Encounters program on Hromadske Radio we talk about her memories on moving from Soviet Ukraine to Israel, the rhymes between the war experience in…
Welcome to Ukrainian Jewish Heritage on Nash Holos Ukrainian Roots Radio. I’m Peter Bejger. The Kyiv of his youth was very different from today’s busy capital of Ukraine. The city was greener, and quieter. Life…
One hundred years ago, on 13 May 1916, the great Jewish writer Sholem Aleichem passed away in New York. He spent most of his life, beginning from birth, in Ukraine. A part of his personal…
“What do we do with this figure?” asks Amelia Glaser, professor of literature at the University of California, San Diego and editor of the UJE sponsored book, Stories of Khmelnytsky: Competing Literary Legacies of the 1648…
Leading European public intellectual, philosopher, writer, and influential human rights activist Bernard-Henri Lévy spoke to an overflow audience at the Ukrainian Institute of America in Manhattan on Saturday evening, January 21. A champion of Ukraine’s…
We discuss a new book entitled Start-up Nation: The Story of Israel’s Economic Miracle, recently issued in Ukraine by Yakaboo Publishing. An interview with Oksana Forostyna. Oksana Forostyna: This is a book about the story…
The center of our attention today is the multidisciplinary program “The Pain of Memory” that took place at the Pinchuk Art Centre in Kyiv 15-21 August 2016. We are talking about memory and how it…