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Sidi Tal (Sorele Birkental, 1912-1983)

Posted On: April 22nd, 2021

Posted In: Did You Know?, Culture, Theatre

Sidi Tal (Sorele Birkental, 1912-1983) was born in what was then called Czernowitz, the capital of the Duchy of Bukovina in the Austro-Hungarian Empire, and is now Chernivtsi, Ukraine. As borders shifted and political regimes…

The history of Jewish theater in Ukraine: an interview with Iryna Meleshkina, part 2

Posted On: May 14th, 2020

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

We are continuing our conversation about Jewish theater. In the first part we talked about the founding of Jewish theater and its work on the territory of contemporary Ukraine from the late nineteenth century until…

The history of Jewish theater in Ukraine: an interview with Iryna Meleshkina, part 1

Posted On: May 13th, 2020

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

We are talking about Jewish theater in Ukraine and the publication Wandering Stars in Ukraine: Pages from the History of Jewish Theater. Our guest in the studio today is the theater critic Iryna Meleshkina, who…