In December 2017, a memorial plaque was dedicated in Vinnytsia in honor of Semen Yakerson, a Jewish officer of the Ukrainian National Republic Army. But his life in exile in Czechoslovakia and the circumstances of…
Yurii Andrukhovych and Ivan Monolatii discuss the history of one Galician city. Andriy Kobalia: Western Ukrainians are still nostalgic about the period when the stillness of the forests began to be disrupted by arriving trains,…
The legendary first mayor of Tel Aviv got his start in business in Odessa and France before becoming a major figure in the Zionist movement. This article appeared in the October/November 2017 issue of The…
In the last episode of Ukrainian Jewish Heritage, we spoke with Marla Raucher Osborn, who discovered her Jewish roots a few years ago in the western Ukrainian city of Rohatyn. Shortly thereafter, she and her…
Andriy Kobalia: Welcome to the program Encounters. I’m Andriy Kobalia. Today we will be talking about the Jewish history of Vinnystia. Vinnytsia was founded in the fourteenth century and was initially a fortress of the…
A few years ago, Marla Raucher Osborn discovered her Jewish roots in the western Ukrainian city of Rohatyn. She and her husband have since left their home in California and relocated to Lviv, in western…
“As if they are trees falling in the middle of the forest in the middle of the night.” This haunting remark was made by Phil Carmel, the CEO of the European Jewish Cemeteries Initiative. The…
Rohatyn Jewish Heritage participated on December 11, 2017 in a follow-up roundtable titled “Saving Jewish Cultural Heritage”. The roundtable was held at the office of the Honorary Consul of Israel in Lviv, where earlier this…
Jewish political parties in Ukraine were partisan, ideological, fragmented, and ultimately crushed. But they left an indelible mark on Jewish history. This essay by the Ukrainian historian Serhiy Hirik originally appeared in the October/November 2017…
Today on the program Encounters the historian Artem Kharchenko talks about Jewish life in nineteenth-century Kharkiv, the Pale of Settlement, and the “Holocaust by Bullets.” Kharkiv is one of a handful of Ukrainian gubernial cities,…