Guilt, justice, and family ties. These dramatic themes are recalled today due to the recent publication of the Ukrainian-language edition of East-West Street by Phillip Sands, a book presented by the author at the 2017…
Today we are talking with Oleksandra Uralova, the philologist and translator of Tevye the Dairyman, about Kyiv/Yehupets, the man who “lives on air,” and the era of Sholem Aleichem. Sholem Aleichem lived in an era…
For the past eight years Anna Khromova has been living in Israel, where she works as a translator and poet. Anna is known for her Ukrainian translation of the book They Cry from the War…
Prize-winning writer Marsha Forchuk Skrypuch unveiled her book Don’t Tell the Enemy in Toronto to an enthusiastic audience made up largely of young people on February 23, 2018. Don’t Tell the Enemy is the story…
Ze’ev Volkov, a tour guide and employee of Bialik House [Tel Aviv], talks about the poet who spent his childhood in Zhytomyr following the death of his father, and eventually became a national Jewish poet….
Today we are talking about the specific features of humor in the magazine Perets [Pepper], which often featured themes exploring Ukrainian-Jewish relations in cartoons depicting the interaction between “Zionists” and “Ukrainian bourgeois nationalists.” Iryna Slavinska:…
Both men hailed from the territory of modern Ukraine. Both were influential journalists, writers, and thinkers during their lifetimes. Both remained inspiring figures for generations to come. But they were different in one distinct way….
Kateryna Babkina’s poetry collection Dlia vsikh odnakove poprosy [Ask the Same for Everybody] will come out in June in a Hebrew translation published by the Israeli publishing house Khaver Laet. Ms. Babkina talks about her…
When reading Andriy Lyubka’s writing, one quickly understands that borders weave throughout his works. They are present in his latest best-selling collection of essays Saudade, which takes its name from the Portuguese and means, in…
Let’s take a moment to consider “dark tourism.” The concept is elastic, and quite multi-faceted. And it has a distinguished historic pedigree. Evidently there are assertions that Thomas Cook, yes the Thomas Cook that founded…