We are talking with the historian Tetyana Batanova about Kyiv in 1919, and the satirical novel written by the Jewish writer Der Tunkeler. In 1917, strikes and rebellions in St. Petersburg led to the fall…
The story of a Ukrainian-born writer who secretly wrote in the Hebrew language his entire life while working as a coal engineer. This article by Matthew Kupfer appeared in the October/November 2017 issue of The…
Jews and Words, a collection of essays by Amos Oz and Fania Oz-Salzberger, has come out in Ukrainian (Dukh i Litera Publishing House). We are talking with the translator Iaroslava Strikha about the ideas discussed…
Poetry in a time of war. Such is the headline by the German newspaper Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, or FAZ, in its recent reporting on the dynamic annual poetry festival Meridian Czernowitz, held earlier in September…
The writer Cécile Wajsbrot talks about the fault lines and discussions taking place in French society. In the spotlight are various topics, including collaborationism, the Holocaust, and the memory of the Algerian War. Iryna Slavinska:…
Our guest on today’s broadcast of Encounters is Philippe Sands, a lawyer who works at Matrix Chambers. He is also the director of the Centre on International Courts and Tribunals, Queen’s Counsel, and Professor of…
Marianna Kiyanovska talks about her new poetry collection The Voices of Babyn Yar and reads some poems from her book. The focus of our conversation is the degree to which the Holocaust theme is represented…
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…