Will Hlukhiv become the second Uman?
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...
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...
This 24 June 2021 discussion was devoted to “Memory Politics: Historical issues and modern Jewish-Ukrainian relations” with the participation of Wendy Lower, John K. Roth Chair at Claremont McKenna College in Claremont, California and the...
Published for the first time are records of messages, letters from Metropolitan Andrei Sheptytsky, and acts of the Metropolitan Ordinariate from the time of the German occupation of Eastern Galicia (1941–1944), that were kept by...
My immersion in this man’s biography began by accident. I discovered a brief reference in an article stating that Metropolitan Andrei Sheptytsky had expressed support for Zionism and the creation of a Jewish state in...
On 2 February 2021, the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine adopted a decision establishing 14 May as the day on which Ukrainians who rescued Jews during the Second World War are honored. Our guest on today's...
On 25 March 2021, a monument to the Ukrainian Greek Catholic priest Omelian Kovch was erected in Lublin, Poland, next to the Majdanek State Museum, founded on the grounds of the Majdanek death camp. At...
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...
The metropolitan on unity against the backdrop of the reigning ideas of Nazism and racial separation Metropolitan Andrei Sheptytsky did not leave behind any collections of philosophical or theological works or major fundamental treatises. He...
We spoke with Viktoria Ivanenko, the translator of this book, written by historian Wendy Lower. Viktoria Ivanenko: The original version of the book Hitler’s Furies: German Women in the Nazi Killing Fields came out in...
How an 18th-century Ukrainian song inspired a Jew from the Dnipro River region and Zionist activist and helped Jewish pioneers endure their difficult trials in the early 20th century. “The Cossack Rode Beyond the Danube”...