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Godless people’ or bearers of new knowledge? The history of Jewish educators in Ukraine

Posted On: February 25th, 2019

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

How Jews began leaving their ghettoes for the spacious streets of large European cities. The Age of Enlightenment began in Europe in the eighteenth century. In this new system of ethics, the supreme value was…

Commemorating the 1919 pogroms—a chat with the president of the Felshtin Society

Posted On: February 14th, 2019

Posted In: Jews on Ukrainian Lands, Nash Holos, Sponsored Projects, Audio/Visual Media, History

Ukrainian Jewish Heritage is a series that has been ongoing here at Nash Holos for several years now, sponsored by the Ukrainian Jewish Encounter of Toronto. The series … for me and also, I hope,…

Prominent Jewish figures and themes on coins and banknotes of Ukraine

Posted On: February 13th, 2019

Posted In: Did You Know?, Jews on Ukrainian Lands, Culture, History

In recent years, the National Bank of Ukraine has issued dozens of commemorative coins on various topics. Several coins are dedicated to prominent Jewish writers and scientists who lived and worked in Ukraine, as well…

Brodsky sugar: How did a small-town family become one of the wealthiest in the empire?

Posted On: February 4th, 2019

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

Kyiv history specialist Mykhailo Kalnytsky reveals how the members of the Brodsky family earned a living and spent their earnings. Host Аndriy Kobalia Guest Мykhailo Kalnytsky The Jewish businessman Meir Brodsky-Schor had five sons: Abram,…

The Jewish question in Austrian Galicia: assimilation, anti-Semitism, and attempts at coexistence

Posted On: January 24th, 2019

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

Ukrainians and Poles in those days [late nineteenth century—Ed.] lived “together and apart” at one and the same time. They were divided by ethnic, religious, social, and other barriers. There was also this: Ruthenian [Ukrainian]…

Jewish life in Rivne explored in new book

Posted On: December 13th, 2018

Posted In: UJE Initiatives, Jews on Ukrainian Lands, Book Fairs/Festivals, Literature, Culture, Outreach

Numerous books and monographs have appeared in recent years describing the rich lives of the Jewish communities that inhabited the territory of contemporary Ukraine prior to World War II. Now Ukrainian historian Maxim Hon has…

Between the “Whites” and the “Reds”: Who carried out pogroms against the Jews during the Civil War?

Posted On: November 26th, 2018

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

Editor’s note: In 21-23 November 1918, an estimated 52-150 Jews were killed in a pogrom in Lviv during the Polish-Ukrainian War that followed World War One. In honor of the 100 year-anniversary of this horrific…

How did the Zionists live in Soviet Ukraine?

Posted On: October 16th, 2018

Posted In: Jews on Ukrainian Lands, Hromadske Radio, Sponsored Projects, History

We are talking with the historian Viktor Husiev about Zionist parties in Soviet Ukraine during the 1920s. The founder of Zionism, the Jewish movement for the creation of a state in the historical fatherland of…

How has the face of Lutsk changed? The history of three Jewish quarters

Posted On: June 27th, 2018

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

Regional historian Oleksandr Kotys talks about the lost city, the small, narrow streets of the Jewish quarters, and the rise of the Lutsk ghetto. In the center of Lutsk stands the eighteenth-century Great Synagogue. Permission…

Serhii Kravtsov: During the Soviet period, attempts were made to erase the traces of urban Jewish communities

Posted On: June 15th, 2018

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

Iryna Slavinska: Today the Encounters program is hosting Dr. Serhii Kravtsov, an architectural historian at Hebrew University’s Center for Jewish Art in Jerusalem. We are talking about Jewish architecture and its traces in Ukrainian cities….