In the end, there remains so much that is unspoken that when we say goodbye, it becomes awkward. And in this respect, it is even worse with cities than with people. With the latter you…
Today our guest on Encounters is Taras Liutyi, the Ukrainian philosopher, writer, and professor in the Faculty of Philosophy and Religious Studies at the National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy. We will be talking about the…
Briefly, the phrase “to go to Buchach” came to me when I was five years old. But what is this Buchach? Who is it? I didn’t know. Where is it, anyway? When Buchach was talked…
After all, like always, everything is resolved by optics and context. My second visit to Buchach happened once again in autumn, when the foliage and the sun recede slowly, exposing the stone backbone of the…
Khersonsky talks about the repressions against the Jews, the Yiddish language, and family memory. Our guest today is the poet Boris Khersonsky. Our talk is pegged to a sad but very crucial date, 12 August…
Yevheniya Kononenko, a Ukrainian writer, translator from the French and English, author of feminist prose works, and a resident of Kyiv, did a residency at the Agnon Literary Center in Buchach. She stayed for one…
This is Encounters, a program dedicated to Ukrainian-Jewish relations. Today we are talking about diversity as a resource. This topic was inspired by a Facebook posting authored by Iryna Solovey, the co-founder of Garage Gang….
At the beginning of the last century, the Jewish writer Shmuel Agnon meticulously evoked in his books what life was like in his native city in Galicia. Later he became the first Hebrew-speaking writer to…
Our conversation today will be a literary one. This is a fine continuation of a series of talks about new books, particularly about work in the genre of graphic texts. Our guest is Tetiana Borodina,…
In his native land Aizenshtein’s name was consigned to oblivion, despite the fact that after Popov’s death in 1906 he became his spiritual successor and the most prominent national figure in the field of radio…
