On today’s edition of Encounters we are talking with the scholar and professor of Northwestern University, Yohanan Petrovsky-Shtern, about his book The Anti-Imperial Choice, which appeared recently in a Ukrainian translation published by Krytyka Press….
Is there a Ukrainian accent in the Hebrew language? Miriam-Feyga Bunimovich, a culturologist and translator from Ukraine who has lived in Israel for nearly eight years, talks about Ukrainian language and culture. Iryna Slavinska: Our…
Prof. Paul Robert Magocsi, chair of Ukrainian Studies at the University of Toronto, kicked off the 2018 tour of Jews and Ukrainians: A Millennium of Co-Existence with an enthusiastic presentation at London’s Ukrainian Institute on…
Guilt, justice, and family ties. These dramatic themes are recalled today due to the recent publication of the Ukrainian-language edition of East-West Street by Phillip Sands, a book presented by the author at the 2017…
Today we are talking with Oleksandra Uralova, the philologist and translator of Tevye the Dairyman, about Kyiv/Yehupets, the man who “lives on air,” and the era of Sholem Aleichem. Sholem Aleichem lived in an era…
“In Our Synagogue” is the first film by Ukrainian director Ivan Orlenko. The 30-minute, black-and-white short is based on Franz Kafka’s unfinished short story of the same name. Of the film’s total budget of just…
For the past eight years Anna Khromova has been living in Israel, where she works as a translator and poet. Anna is known for her Ukrainian translation of the book They Cry from the War…
Three years ago, Paul Robert Magocsi, Chair of Ukrainian Studies at the University of Toronto, started collaborating with Yohanan Petrovsky-Shtern, professor of Jewish studies and Jewish history at Northwestern University, on a book about Ukrainian-Jewish…
Professor Shimon Redlich was saved by a Ukrainian family during the Holocaust. We talk with him about Andrei Sheptytsky and the reasons why he has not been awarded the title of Righteous Among the Nations….
Dr. Vasyl Rasevych is a senior academic researcher in the Center for Urban History of East Central Europe in Lviv, Ukraine. Rasevych has become a very popular historian in the field of Ukrainian-Jewish historical memory….