We are talking about the Jewish scout movement, which originated in western Ukraine. Our guest today is the historian Yurii Yuzych, head of the Supervisory Board of the Plast youth organization. Vasyl Shandro: When did…
If last year, roughly around this time, early in the morning before sunrise, you saw an imposing gray-haired man in Lviv’s center wandering pensively down the street, glancing at the clock, and looking around anxiously,…
Poland during the interwar period was one of the largest Jewish centers in the world. According to the 1921 census, it was home to 2,845,000 Jews, or over ten percent of the entire population.[1] Poland…
Khersonsky talks about the repressions against the Jews, the Yiddish language, and family memory. Our guest today is the poet Boris Khersonsky. Our talk is pegged to a sad but very crucial date, 12 August…
In his native land Aizenshtein’s name was consigned to oblivion, despite the fact that after Popov’s death in 1906 he became his spiritual successor and the most prominent national figure in the field of radio…
The Kedem Public Auction House held an unusual auction in the capital of Israel in July 2019. Whereas hundreds of lots and large collections are usually put up for auction, this time the entire auction…
The historian Mykhailo Tiahly discusses the Krymchaks and Karaites, and the peninsula’s Jewish history. The historian Serhii Plokhy calls Ukraine the “gates of Europe,” a country on the border of East and West. Owing to…
CHERNIVTSI — I wanted to hear Yiddish. The Yiddish that Wolf Moskovich – professor emeritus of the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, board member of the Ukrainian Jewish Encounter and Chernivtsi native – spoke about only…
Bukovyna inspires the imagination. Sitting at the crossroads of great empires, this Ukrainian region was home to a myriad of writers, artists, musicians and ethnic groups, each who forever left their imprint. Wolf Moskovich, Board…
What are the causes of postwar anti-Semitism in the USSR, how was cosmopolitanism combated on the ground, and is the theory about the deportation of Jews to the Far East in 1953 justified? These are…
