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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, Audio/Visual Media, Culture, 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,...

Beregovski at the 2018 KlezKanada festival

Posted On: May 29th, 2019

Posted In: UJE Initiatives, Book Fairs/Festivals, Culture, Music, Outreach

The work of Ukrainian-Jewish ethnomusicologist Moyshe Beregovksi (1892-1961) was featured in 2018’s UJE-supported KlezKanada festival. Beregovksi was among the first to indicate similarities in melody and means of expression in Ukrainian and Jewish folk music. The world-renowned...

Ukrainian Kazka fascinated Israel

Posted On: April 22nd, 2019

Posted In: Culture, Music

The solo concert by the popular Ukrainian group Kazka aroused tremendous interest among Israeli youth. More than one thousand people attended the performance in Reading Hall in the port of Tel Aviv. Among the spectators...

Hava Nagila—the song, the story and the movie

Posted On: March 21st, 2019

Posted In: Audio/Visual Media, Nash Holos, Sponsored Projects, Culture, Music, Cinema

Hava Nagila. The words are Hebrew for Let Us Rejoice. They also comprise the title of one of the most recognizable and well-known songs in the world. And little did I know just how appropriate a...

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