The citizens of Zolochiv as well as the world’s scientific community celebrated on 18 July 2017 the 80th birthday of Roald Hoffmann, believed to be the last remaining living Nobel Prize laureate from Ukrainian lands. Hoffmann was born…
The Western Ukrainian town of Brody is on my mind today. This historic town has always been in the minds of several generations of Jewish traders, writers, rabbis, and immigrants to the New World. Boris…
The participants of a recent presentation on Ukrainian-Jewish relations were direct and unambiguous when asked about their perceptions of Ukrainians: Ukrainians are anti-Semites. Most cooperated with the Nazis during World War II. They carried out…
In nineteenth century Ukraine, Jewish boys were being spirited from their families to serve the tsar, Hasidism was sweeping Jewish practice from Kyiv and Chornobyl through central Europe, and a Jewish girl became a controversial…
Rohatyn Jewish Heritage began its public activities in the new year by participating in a roundtable discussion 11 February 2017 in Lviv on preserving Jewish cultural heritage in western Ukraine and adjacent areas. The stated…
Welcome to Ukrainian Jewish Heritage on Nash Holos Ukrainian Roots Radio. I’m Peter Bejger. The world is on the move, and often not by choice. Fight or flight? Should I stay or should I go?…
The historian Ihor Shchupak, who heads the Tkuma Ukrainian Institute for Holocaust Studies, talks about the politicization of the Jewish movement, coexistence between Jews and Ukrainians, and national minorities in the policies of the Ukrainian…
Iryna Slavinska: You are listening to Hromadske Radio and Iryna Slavinska is working in the studio. This is a fresh edition of the program that is called Encounters. The broad theme of this program covers…
The political scientist and cultural studies expert Taras Vozniak, editor-in-chief and founder of the independent culture journal Ji, is our guest on the program “Encounters.” Iryna Slavinska: How distinctive is Lviv’s multicultural environment? Taras Vozniak:…
Welcome to Ukrainian Jewish Heritage … a radio series on Nash Holos Ukrainian Roots Radio … sponsored by the Ukrainian Jewish Encounter based in Toronto, Ontario. Peter Bejger discusses the history of Dubno. Audio is…