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The Alibi Sisters: Ukrainian-Jewish karmic connection

Posted On: May 15th, 2025

Posted In: Culture, Music, Ethnography

The female duo of Anna and Angelina Zaval'sky, known as The Alibi Sisters, has been shining in the Ukrainian-Jewish musical scene for five years. Their songs in Yiddish and Ukrainian captivate with charm and melody,...

Barbra Streisand

Posted On: March 11th, 2025

Posted In: Did You Know?, Culture, Music, Cinema

Barbra Streisand is one of the most popular American actresses and singers of Jewish origin. She has won two Oscars and Emmy, Grammy, and Golden Globe awards. She was born in 1942 in New York...

"Joseph Roth — Coming BAck," documentary by Oksana Lyniv

Posted On: April 17th, 2024

Posted In: Jews on Ukrainian Lands, Ukrainian- Jewish Relations History, Culture, History, Music

Oksana Lyniv, the internationally known conductor and artistic director of the LvivMozArt festival, tells the stories of Joseph Roth and Leonard Bernstein and his parents in a documentary that also features a commemorative concert near...

Ukraine is the cradle of klezmer music, which is famous throughout the world but forgotten in our country — Andrii Levchenko

Posted On: June 18th, 2022

Posted In: Hromadske Radio, Sponsored Projects, Culture, Music

What is klezmer music? Why this name, and how did this music influence Ukrainian traditional music? Or is it the reverse: Can one trace the influence of Ukrainian music on klezmer? We discussed all these...

Moisei Beregovskyi (1892–1961)

Posted On: December 2nd, 2021

Posted In: Did You Know?, Culture, Music

Throughout two world wars, the Revolution, purges, and exile, the prolific Jewish folklorist and ethnomusicologist Moisei (Moshe) Beregovskyi (Beregovsky/Beregovskii) created a body of scholarly work that proved essential to the preservation and study of Jewish musical traditions and...

How “The Cossack Rode Beyond the Danube” became a song of Zionism

Posted On: May 20th, 2021

Posted In: Ukrainian- Jewish Relations History, Culture, History, Music

How an 18th-century Ukrainian song inspired a Jew from the Dnipro River region and Zionist activist and helped Jewish pioneers endure their difficult trials in the early 20th century. “The Cossack Rode Beyond the Danube”...

Mykola Lysenko (1842-1912)

Posted On: February 12th, 2021

Posted In: Did You Know?, Culture, Music

Mykola Lysenko (1842-1912). Composer, ethnomusicologist, conductor, pianist, teacher, and community figure. Lysenko can be considered the father of Ukrainian classical music. He studied at the Leipzig Conservatory and later refined his conducting and orchestration skills...

Ukrainian composer was banned in Soviet Union

Source: cjnews.com

Posted On: November 13th, 2019

Posted In: Culture, Music

Music composed by Jewish Ukrainian artist Dmitri Klebanov and suppressed by the Soviet authorities from the 1940s until 1988 was recently rediscovered.

Klezmer music is part of the great traditional culture of Ukraine

Posted On: October 3rd, 2019

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

Clarinetist Mitya Gerasimov, the leader of the Kyiv-based Pushkin Klezmer Band, reveals how klezmer is linked to jazz, fakelore, and new but traditional Jewish music. Iryna Slavinska: In this podcast we will be listening to...

Ochyma Cultury: Ievhen Stankovych and Ihor Shamo

Posted On: September 18th, 2019

Posted In: Literature, Culture, Music

Several weeks ago we posted Marko Robert Stech’s television segment Ochyma Cultury («Очима культури») № 97, dedicated to prominent Lviv artists Roman Selsky and Magrit (Reich) Selska. Dr. Stech, a Canadian literary scholar, cultural historian,...

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The Alibi Sisters: Ukrainian-Jewish karmic connection

Barbra Streisand

"Joseph Roth — Coming BAck," documentary by Oksana Lyniv

Ukraine is the cradle of klezmer music, which is famous throughout the world but forgotten in our country — Andrii Levchenko

Moisei Beregovskyi (1892–1961)

How “The Cossack Rode Beyond the Danube” became a song of Zionism

Mykola Lysenko (1842-1912)

Ukrainian composer was banned in Soviet Union

Klezmer music is part of the great traditional culture of Ukraine

Ochyma Cultury: Ievhen Stankovych and Ihor Shamo

Ukrainian Jewish Encounter Timeline wins international recognition while countering Russian propaganda

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Ukrainian Jewish Encounter Timeline wins international recognition while countering Russian propaganda

Web Excellence Awards:

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Anthem Awards:

Communicator Awards:

Encounter: The Ukrainian-Jewish Literary Prize

Download the complete 168-page book

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