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“When the Lenin monument was dismantled in the city of Kolomyia, it turned out that it had been standing on top of Jewish gravestones”—Yuri Andrukhovych

Posted On: December 16th, 2020

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

The sixth German–Ukrainian meeting of writers belonging to the Paperbridge Circle took place on 10–11 September in the form of the Paperbridge Circle 2020 telebridge between Ivano-Frankivsk and Berlin. The conversation with the writer Yuri…

A ducat, a broken tooth, and a black ḥupah: How Jews battled epidemics

Posted On: December 9th, 2020

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

In the mid-twentieth century, the causes of epidemics were not understood even by scientists, let alone ordinary people, who saw in this misfortune only Divine punishment and/or witchcraft, together with the machinations of evil forces….

(Pt. 2) Jewish communities on the territory of Ukraine in the 16th–17th centuries: An interview with the researcher Natalya Starchenko

Posted On: November 26th, 2020

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

What was the cause of conflicts between Ukrainians and Jews? Did they take each other to court? How did trials take place? We are continuing our conversation about the life of Jewish communities in the…

(Pt. 1) Jewish communities on the territory of Ukraine in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries: An interview with the researcher Natalya Starchenko

Posted On: November 24th, 2020

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

What do we know about the life of Jewish communities on the territory of Ukraine in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries? How did people of different cultures and religions coexist? How did they communicate? Did…

“It is important to re-evaluate Ukraine as a territory of freedom and patronage, a defender of minorities”— Oles Kulchynsky

Posted On: November 5th, 2020

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

We are talking about the South of Ukraine, the intersection of cultures and civilizations. Our guest on today’s show is the Orientalist and translator Oles Kulchynsky. Oles Kulchynsky: The Black Sea Lowland [Prychornomoria] is an…

Marla Osborn: How a U.S. citizen is saving Ukraine’s Jewish heritage

Posted On: September 21st, 2020

Posted In: Jews on Ukrainian Lands, History

Originally appeared in Russian @jewishnews.com.ua Marla Osborn is an American citizen who is engaged in the preservation of Jewish heritage in western Ukraine and heads the project Rohatyn Jewish Heritage. Marla actively shares the successes…

Who was Fabergé’s Kyiv competitor? A regional historian reveals all.

Posted On: August 17th, 2020

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

Together with Olena Bezruk, we learn how Joseph Marshak went from owning a small atelier in the Podil district to creating a jewelry empire. The second half of the nineteenth century was an era of…

Gaining their respective statehoods was decisive in the Ukrainian and Jewish Scout movements—Yurii Yuzych

Posted On: July 10th, 2020

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

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…

The Lviv pogrom, 101 years later

Posted On: June 25th, 2020

Posted In: Jews on Ukrainian Lands, Literature, Culture, History

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,…

Jewish Immigration to Palestine from Western Ukraine (1919–1939)

Posted On: April 9th, 2020

Posted In: Jews on Ukrainian Lands, History

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…