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Until 1930 Yiddish was heard on the streets of Rivne, where Jews formed 70 percent of the city’s population — Maksym Hon

Posted On: July 26th, 2021

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

Our guest today is Maksym Hon, Doctor of Political Science, professor, head of the civic organization Mnemonics, and a specialist in Ukrainian-Jewish relations during the first half of the twentieth century in western Ukraine. Vasyl…

At the beginning of the 20th century, Boryslav was the world’s third-largest producer of oil after Pennsylvania and Baku — Vladyslava Moskalets

Posted On: July 21st, 2021

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A conversation about “Galician California,” Bruno Schulz, oil, [Habsburg emperor] Franz Josef, and Jewish life in Western Ukraine. Our guest on today’s program is Dr. Vladyslava Moskalets, Senior Lecturer in the Department of History at…

Our society perceives the arrival of Hasidim in Uman as the influx of a foreign culture to the land of Ukraine, but this is a mistaken belief”: Marharyta Yehorchenko

Posted On: July 12th, 2021

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

Our guest on the show is the literary specialist Marharyta Yehorchenko, editor and compiler of the publication Jewish Addresses of Ukraine (Dukh i Litera, 2020). Vasyl Shandro: Are we talking about these addresses exclusively in…

Will Hlukhiv become the second Uman?

Posted On: June 29th, 2021

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

In the summer of 2020, a monument to the victims of the anti-Jewish pogrom of 1918 was unveiled at the ancient Jewish cemetery in Hlukhiv, on the initiative of the chairman of that city’s Jewish…

Book Discussion Video: Jews in the Western Ukrainian National Republic

Posted On: June 7th, 2021

Posted In: Jews on Ukrainian Lands, Literature, Sponsored Projects, Audio/Visual Media, Culture, History

This 21 May book discussion was devoted to the monograph/memoir of Ruben (Reuven) Fahn (1878-1939/1944?) on Jews in the Western Ukrainian National Republic (1918-1919). The book, originally published in 1933 in Yiddish, has been translated…

Murals honoring distinguished Jews to embellish cities in Ukraine

Posted On: April 29th, 2021

Posted In: Jews on Ukrainian Lands, Culture, Visual Arts, History

In April 2021, a huge portrait of the young Vladimir Ze’ev Jabotinsky appeared on the wall of a building located at 31 Bazarna Street, in the center of Odesa. The event was attended by Joel…

Lord, You will open my mouth… Josef Zissels in conversations with Iza Khruslinska

Posted On: April 28th, 2021

Posted In: Dukh i Litera Digital Library, Jews on Ukrainian Lands, Literature, Sponsored Projects, Culture, History

In conversations with the renowned Polish journalist Iza Khruslinska, Josef Zissels – former political prisoner and dissident, head of the Association of the Jewish Organizations and Communities of Ukraine, executive vice-president of the Congress of…

Honored anti-Semite: How Trofim Kichko became the star of anti-Zionism

Posted On: April 19th, 2021

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

In the final decades of the Soviet era, hundreds of anti-Zionist books and brochures were published in millions of copies. Many authors secured themselves a steady income through their critique of “Jewish bourgeois nationalism.” Yet,…

“The individual and collective memory of Yevbaz is a certain construct; it is a mosaic of personal experience and the recollections of relatives and neighbors”: A conversation with Maryna Hrymych, pt. 2

Posted On: April 14th, 2021

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The continuation of the conversation about the Jewish Bazaar, Yevbaz, the renowned location in Kyiv that is portrayed in the novels of Maryna Hrymych. Iryna Slavinska: What is Yevbaz today? Maryna Hrymych: Today, Yevbaz is…

Any endeavor should have a “gesheft”: A conversation about Yevbaz with Maryna Hrymych, pt. 1

Posted On: April 12th, 2021

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A conversation with the writer and Doctor of Historical Sciences Maryna Hrymych. We talked about the Jewish Bazaar, a well-known area in Kyiv depicted in her novels. Iryna Slavinska: What is Yevbaz? Maryna Hrymych: Yevbaz…