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Honored anti-Semite: How Trofim Kichko became the star of anti-Zionism

Posted On: April 19th, 2021

Posted In: Hadashot, Jews on Ukrainian Lands, Literature, Sponsored Projects, Culture, Other Programs, History

In the final decades of the Soviet era, hundreds of anti-Zionist books and brochures were published in millions of copies. Many authors secured themselves a steady income through their critique of “Jewish bourgeois nationalism.” Yet,…

“The individual and collective memory of Yevbaz is a certain construct; it is a mosaic of personal experience and the recollections of relatives and neighbors”: A conversation with Maryna Hrymych, pt. 2

Posted On: April 14th, 2021

Posted In: Jews on Ukrainian Lands, Hromadske Radio, Sponsored Projects, Audio/Visual Media, History

The continuation of the conversation about the Jewish Bazaar, Yevbaz, the renowned location in Kyiv that is portrayed in the novels of Maryna Hrymych. Iryna Slavinska: What is Yevbaz today? Maryna Hrymych: Today, Yevbaz is…

Any endeavor should have a “gesheft”: A conversation about Yevbaz with Maryna Hrymych, pt. 1

Posted On: April 12th, 2021

Posted In: Jews on Ukrainian Lands, Hromadske Radio, Sponsored Projects, Audio/Visual Media, History

A conversation with the writer and Doctor of Historical Sciences Maryna Hrymych. We talked about the Jewish Bazaar, a well-known area in Kyiv depicted in her novels. Iryna Slavinska: What is Yevbaz? Maryna Hrymych: Yevbaz…

The “Eastern Action” of the OUN(b) and the Anti-Jewish Violence in the Summer of 1941: The Cases of Smotrych and Kupyn

Posted On: April 7th, 2021

Posted In: Ukraina Moderna, Sponsored Projects, The Holocaust in Ukraine, Other Programs, History

This article by Andriy Usach originally appeared in Euxeinos, Vol. 9, No. 27/2019 (Pp. 63-84). We thank the editors for their permission to reuse these materials. Abstract: The article analyses the role of the OUN(b)…

How the police chief of Budaniv gave up his life for the Jews

Posted On: April 5th, 2021

Posted In: Hadashot, Sponsored Projects, The Holocaust in Ukraine, Other Programs, History

The western Ukrainian village of Budaniv (Pol. Budzanów) in the Ternopil region boasts a number of Jewish historical monuments. Recently, the traditional triad of “synagogue–Jewish development–cemetery” was supplemented by the installation of a monument to…

Vitaly Portnikov: Shevchenko was not an anti-Semite

Posted On: March 29th, 2021

Posted In: Commentary, Ukrainian- Jewish Relations History, History, Commentary and Analysis

[Editor’s note: This article by renowned journalist Vitaly Portinikov originally appeared in November 2018.] One hundred and sixty years ago, in November 1858, the journal Russkii vestnik (Russian Messenger) published a letter written by a…

The Ukrainian question in the world perception of Jabotinsky the Zionist

Posted On: March 24th, 2021

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

Copyright © 2021 RFE/RL, Inc. Reprinted by permission of Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty He was born in Odesa, studied in Switzerland, Italy, Austria, France, and Palestine, and died near New York City. In keeping with…

From the Carpathians to the mountains of Galilee: The 100th anniversary of the “Galician project” to foster the rebirth of Israel

Posted On: March 18th, 2021

Posted In: Commentary, Ukrainian- Jewish Relations History, History, Commentary and Analysis

One hundred years ago, in the spring of 1921, an experiment that became the stuff of Zionist legend ended. Myths were created and scores of books and plays were written about Bitanya-Ilit (in the Lower…

“A tragedy of guilty victims”? Memory of the Roma genocide in postwar Ukraine, part 3

Posted On: March 10th, 2021

Posted In: Ukraina Moderna, Sponsored Projects, The Holocaust in Ukraine, Other Programs, History

In the third part of his article, the author examines another important type of Soviet “space of memory” about the war: the sphere of artistic representation. Films, music, and literary works had a huge potential…

“A tragedy of guilty victims”? The memory of the Roma genocide in postwar Ukraine, part 2 : Knowledge “for internal use,” or the “tip of the iceberg”: Channels of information and the formation of the picture of the occupation

Posted On: February 24th, 2021

Posted In: Ukraina Moderna, Sponsored Projects, The Holocaust in Ukraine, Other Programs, History

The second part of the article examines the “tip of the iceberg” of the Soviet culture of memory of the victims of the Roma genocide, that is, the documentation of the occupation period which the…

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