Bracha Peli (1892–1986)
Born Bronya Kutzenok into a Hasidic family in the small Ukrainian village of Starovitsky, Peli was exposed to the printed word at a very early age and became a pioneer in Jewish publishing and bookselling....
Born Bronya Kutzenok into a Hasidic family in the small Ukrainian village of Starovitsky, Peli was exposed to the printed word at a very early age and became a pioneer in Jewish publishing and bookselling....
The book's strength lies in its accounts, devoid of excessive simplification, of events and the life of Jews and other victims of the Nazi regime. A conversation with Tetiana Borodina, the scholarly co-editor of this...
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...
A conversation about book production on the territory of Ukraine in the last few centuries with Nadia Ufimtseva, who holds an M.A. in Jewish Studies. She is a graduate student at the National University of...
Born near the little town of Chortkiv in what is today western Ukraine, the prolific Jewish writer, journalist, and editor Karl Emil Franzos achieved international renown in the late nineteenth century with his German-language tales...
The Ukrainian Studies Program at Columbia University’s Harriman Institute and the Ukrainian Jewish Encounter (UJE) hosted an online conversation with renowned Ukrainian writers Vasyl Makhno and Andrei Kurkov on 14 October 2021. The discussion focused...
A conversation with Andrei Kurkov and Vasyl Makhno, New York City, 16 October 2021 (In Ukrainian) Acclaimed Ukrainian writers Andrei Kurkov and Vasyl Makhno appeared together in New York on 16 October 2021 to discuss...
Revival of the Nation. Lessons from Israel for Ukraine, Lviv, 28 BookForum, 19 September 2021 (in Ukrainian) The book series "Jewish Library" is a collection of the best works about the contribution of the Jewish...
A discussion about multilingual Jewish prose on the occasion of the publication of the Ukrainian-language anthologies American Jewish Prose and The Mahogany Box. Jewish Prose of Eastern Europe published by Dukh i Litera. Participants: Leonid...
Discussion about the Kultur-Lige (in English), 28 BookForum, Lviv, 16 September 2021. Participants: Prof. Myroslav Shkandrij, Prof. Harriet Murav, Prof. Gennadiy Estriakh, Moderator: Natalia A. Feduschak As defined by the YIVO Encyclopedia of Jews in...