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…
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…
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…
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…
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….
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…
