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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…

Between languages and literatures: A loss for the Ukrainian–Jewish dialogue of cultures

Posted On: March 17th, 2021

Posted In: Literature, Culture

In the early morning hours of 15 March 2021 the translator Dr. Victor Radutsky died in Jerusalem. In the last 30 years Hebrew literature in Israel was revealed to Ukrainians thanks to his professional efforts…

Celan speaks to contemporary Germans, teaches them about responsibility, morality, and offers them a different take on their history: Petro Rykhlo

Posted On: March 15th, 2021

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

The continuation of a conversation about Paul Celan, the distinguished German-language poet who was born in Chernivtsi. Our guest today is Petro Rykhlo, translator, literary historian, Doctor of Philology, professor at Yurii Fedkovych Chernivtsi National…

Paul Celan and Ukraine: A conversation marking the centenary of the poet’s birth

Posted On: March 8th, 2021

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

Our program is dedicated to the centenary of the birth of Paul Celan, the distinguished German-language poet who was born in Chernivtsi. Our guest today is Petro Rykhlo, translator, literary historian, Doctor of Philology, professor…

Presentation of the Ukrainian translation of the book “Clara’s War”

Posted On: March 3rd, 2021

Posted In: Publications, Literature, Sponsored Projects, Culture

On February 25, 2021, an on-line presentation of the Ukrainian translation of the book Clara’s War: One Girl’s Story of Survival took place. Authored by Clara Kramer, the Ukrainian-language version was published at the end…

‘Light on the Hills’

Posted On: December 21st, 2020

Posted In: Agnon Literary Centre, Publications, Literature, Sponsored Projects, Culture, Other Programs

The publication Light on the Hills is the result of the Agnon literary residency, which took place from September to December 2019, in Buchach, Ukraine. This is the second residency to gather Ukrainian writers in…

‘Tablet’: Aharon Appelfeld, a Memory

Posted On: December 17th, 2020

Posted In: Publications, Literature, Sponsored Projects, Culture, Other Programs, Special Projects

The Ukrainian Jewish Encounter supported the Ukrainian-language translation and publication of two books by the great Israeli writer Aharon Appelfeld Kateryna and Blooms of Darkness. Both books were translated by his long-time translator Victor Radutsky…