Dr. Yohanan Petrovsky-Shtern, co-author of “Jews and Ukrainians: A Millennium of Co-Existence” has over the last several months lectured in Europe and taught in Ukraine about Ukrainian-Jewish relations. The following are questions provided to the…
Welcome to Ukrainian Jewish Heritage on Nash Holos Ukrainian Roots Radio. I’m Peter Bejger. Today we begin with a dispatch from the past. “Kiev in the morning. A lot of people are already walking on…
On today’s show, we are talking with Ola Hnatiuk about her book Courage and Fear. This work will be of interest to readers who are fascinated by national history as seen through the prism of…
Welcome to Ukrainian Jewish Heritage on Nash Holos Ukrainian Roots Radio. I’m Peter Bejger. A young woman working in an office in New York City writes: “I was just another girl in a cubicle, doing…
Anatoly Podolsky is the director of the Ukrainian Center for Holocaust Studies and holds the degree of Candidate of Historical Sciences. In this installment of Encounters we discuss remembrance, memorials, and enlightenment in the context…
Klezmer music … it’s instantly recognizable, yet almost impossible to define. It’s a unique sound with a heritage deeply rooted in the shtetls, the Jewish villages of Eastern Europe. The term klezmer is derived from…
In 1966, the Israeli writer Shmuel Yosef Agnon was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature for his book A Guest for the Night. Set in the eastern Galician town of Buchach after the First World…
On today’s program Yaroslav Kit, Doctor of Philosophy at the Institute of Religion and Society, talks about Andrei Sheptytsky. Iryna Slavinska: You are listening to Hromadske Radio. Iryna Slavinska is in the studio, and this…
Babyn Yar today is a tree-lined park on the outskirts of Kyiv that offers the city’s residents refuge from the scorching summer heat. Seventy-five years ago, this peaceful setting of parkland was the site of…
The Faina Petryakova Center for Judaica and Jewish Art was set up to commemorate the life of Faina Petryakova – a scholar and a passionate defender and promoter of Jewish art. Petryakova was born…