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“There was a long-standing initiative to erect a monument in Lublin”: A conversation about the martyred priest Omelian Kovch

Posted On: June 9th, 2021

Posted In: Hromadske Radio, Sponsored Projects, Audio/Visual Media, The Holocaust in Ukraine, History

On 25 March 2021, a monument to the Ukrainian Greek Catholic priest Omelian Kovch was erected in Lublin, Poland, next to the Majdanek State Museum, founded on the grounds of the Majdanek death camp. At…

Book Discussion Video: Jews in the Western Ukrainian National Republic

Posted On: June 7th, 2021

Posted In: Jews on Ukrainian Lands, Literature, Sponsored Projects, Audio/Visual Media, Culture, History

This 21 May book discussion was devoted to the monograph/memoir of Ruben (Reuven) Fahn (1878-1939/1944?) on Jews in the Western Ukrainian National Republic (1918-1919). The book, originally published in 1933 in Yiddish, has been translated…

Sheptytsky is much more profound and complex

Posted On: June 2nd, 2021

Posted In: Zahid.net, Sponsored Projects, The Holocaust in Ukraine, Other Programs, History, Metropolitan Andrei Sheptytsky

The metropolitan on unity against the backdrop of the reigning ideas of Nazism and racial separation Metropolitan Andrei Sheptytsky did not leave behind any collections of philosophical or theological works or major fundamental treatises. He…

The author of ‘Hitler’s Furies’ seeks to describe the fate of the women who, without holding official positions in the Third Reich, were perpetrators of the Holocaust: Translator

Posted On: May 27th, 2021

Posted In: Hromadske Radio, Literature, Sponsored Projects, Audio/Visual Media, Culture, The Holocaust in Ukraine, History

We spoke with Viktoria Ivanenko, the translator of this book, written by historian Wendy Lower. Viktoria Ivanenko: The original version of the book Hitler’s Furies: German Women in the Nazi Killing Fields came out in…

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”…

Dialogues of Understanding: Ukrainian-Jewish Relations

Posted On: May 20th, 2021

Posted In: Dukh i Litera Digital Library, Ukrainian- Jewish Relations History, Sponsored Projects, History

The reader is offered a collection of interviews recorded by Iza Khruslinska and Petro Tyma over the course of several years to introduce actors in current historic events. Among them are scientists, publicists, dissidents and…

Omer Bartov: “I feel a particular responsibility for understanding the history of the Jewish people”

Posted On: May 5th, 2021

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

Professor Bartov, please tell us what influenced your choice of the profession of historian? What personal factors and people contributed to your choosing research topics? I have been interested in history since my youth, possibly…

Murals honoring distinguished Jews to embellish cities in Ukraine

Posted On: April 29th, 2021

Posted In: Jews on Ukrainian Lands, Culture, Visual Arts, History

In April 2021, a huge portrait of the young Vladimir Ze’ev Jabotinsky appeared on the wall of a building located at 31 Bazarna Street, in the center of Odesa. The event was attended by Joel…

Lord, You will open my mouth… Josef Zissels in conversations with Iza Khruslinska

Posted On: April 28th, 2021

Posted In: Dukh i Litera Digital Library, Jews on Ukrainian Lands, Literature, Sponsored Projects, Culture, History

In conversations with the renowned Polish journalist Iza Khruslinska, Josef Zissels – former political prisoner and dissident, head of the Association of the Jewish Organizations and Communities of Ukraine, executive vice-president of the Congress of…

Book Review: Anatomy of a Genocide: The Life and Death of a Town Called Buczacz*

Posted On: April 21st, 2021

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

This review of Omer Bartov’s book Anatomy of a Genocide: The Life and Death of a Town Called Buczacz by Vladyslava Moskalets first appeared in the quarterly journal Ab Imperio (2019. No 2. Pp. 115–122.)….

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