Ruth Ellen Gruber is an American journalist, author, editor and researcher. Her book, Jewish Heritage Travel: A Guide to Eastern Europe, was first published twenty-five years ago and is still considered the most complete Jewish…
Ruth Ellen Gruber is an American journalist, author, editor and researcher. She has published and lectured widely and has won several awards for her work on Jewish heritage and contemporary Jewish issues in Europe. Her…
[Editor’s note: Irene Nemirovsky joins Aharon Appelfeld and Amos Oz as a writer with deep ties to Ukraine, but who is still largely unknown by the country’s citizens. 24 February 2019 marks the 116th anniversary…
Red Famine: Stalin’s War on Ukraine by Pulitzer-prize winning journalist Anne Applebaum explores a seminal event in Ukrainian history – the Holodomor. Still little-known internationally, the Holodomor (death by hunger, in Ukrainian) refers to the…
Literary specialist and author of the book Lesia Ukrainka from A to Z discusses Jewish motifs in the texts of Larysa Kosach. Iryna Slavinska: Today we will be discussing a literary topic that is not…
Researchers of the Holodomor of 1932–1933 continue to overlook a book that was written by Mendel Osherowitz (b. 1884, Trostianets–d. 1965, New York), a Jewish American writer and journalist who wrote in Yiddish. His work,…
Numerous books and monographs have appeared in recent years describing the rich lives of the Jewish communities that inhabited the territory of contemporary Ukraine prior to World War II. Now Ukrainian historian Maxim Hon has…
The Key in the Pocket is a multi-edition collection of stories by three prominent Ukrainian writers—Sofia Andrukhovych, Andriy Lyubka, and Yevheniya Senik—who spent a week at a literary residence in Buchach, Ukraine, the birthplace of…
Sofia Andrukhovych, a rising star of Ukrainian prose, participated in a unique project in the two house-museums where the future Nobel Prize in Literature recipient Shmuel Yosef Agnon lived. Buchach, in Galicia, and then Jerusalem…
Who closes the door? And who can open it? Who escapes? And who doesn’t? A compelling book entitled The Great Departure: Mass Migration from Eastern Europe and the Making of the Free World by Tara…
