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People do not want to remember because they are afraid of finding out something that is incompatible with their self-image—Sofia Andrukhovych

Posted On: August 25th, 2020

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On the Encounters program, we are continuing our conversation with the writer, translator, and journalist Sofia Andrukhovych about her novel Amadoka. We discuss how to distinguish valuable documents in archives from trash, the history of…

The idea for the novel Amadoka sprang from an interest in Viktor Petrov and the persecution and destruction of the Ukrainian intelligentsia in the 1930s—Sofia Andrukhovych

Posted On: August 20th, 2020

Posted In: Hromadske Radio, Literature, Sponsored Projects, Audio/Visual Media, Culture

The title of the book, Amadoka, is derived from the name of the largest lake in Europe, situated on the territory of contemporary Ukraine. The novel is not about the lake but about its disappearance,…

Who was Fabergé’s Kyiv competitor? A regional historian reveals all.

Posted On: August 17th, 2020

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

Together with Olena Bezruk, we learn how Joseph Marshak went from owning a small atelier in the Podil district to creating a jewelry empire. The second half of the nineteenth century was an era of…

A “Jewish Heritage” special nomination in the Wiki Loves Monuments photo competition in Ukraine

Posted On: August 17th, 2020

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The Canadian charitable non-profit organization “Ukrainian Jewish Encounter” (UJE) is supporting for the third year in a row a special “Jewish Heritage” nomination in the Ukrainian segment of the international Wiki Loves Monuments competition—the world’s…

In the 1960s and 1970s, the USSR began to fear an alliance between Ukrainians and Jews. Therefore, the authorities published works aimed at causing a rift between them—Myroslav Shkandrij

Posted On: August 11th, 2020

Posted In: Hromadske Radio, Literature, Sponsored Projects, Audio/Visual Media, Culture

We are continuing our conversation about the image of the Jew and the depictions of the Jewish community in twentieth-century Ukrainian literature. Our guest on the show is Myroslav Shkandrij, a literary historian, art specialist,…

When you read Lesia Ukrainka, often you cannot figure out if the text is about Jews or Ukrainians—Myroslav Shkandrij

Posted On: August 7th, 2020

Posted In: Hromadske Radio, Literature, Sponsored Projects, Audio/Visual Media, Culture

How have Ukrainian writers from the nineteenth to the twenty-first century described Jews? Can one track certain trends? We spoke about the image of the Jew and the depiction of the Jewish community in Ukrainian…

With Greta Thunberg, we are creating a future, and together with Anne Frank we are talking about mistakes of the past: Lilia Omelianenko

Posted On: August 4th, 2020

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We spoke to Lilia Omelianenko, the co-founder of the Vydavnytstvo publishing house, about the debut of a graphic novel about Anne Frank. Iryna Slavinska: Is this a film adaptation or a comicization of the diary?…

“Chutzpah triggers not just shock but admiration”: Oksana Forostyna talks about a new word in the vocabulary of Ukrainian journalists

Posted On: July 20th, 2020

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In the studio with me today is Oksana Forostyna, who is one of the members of the Nestor Group, a publisher, and a translator. We will be talking with this thinker and columnist about a…

In her novel “The Books of Jacob”, Olga Tokarczuk portrays the roughly identical fate of all exploited people, regardless of their language and culture—Ostap Slyvynsky

Posted On: July 16th, 2020

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Part 2 of the conversation with the poet, writer, and translator about Olga Tokarczuk’s novel The Books of Jacob. In 2020 the Tempora Publishing House issued Ostap Slyvynsky’s Ukrainian translation of this novel. Iryna Slavinska:…

The novel “The Books of Jacob” opens up the real cultural landscape of Podilia, Galicia, and the Subcarpathian regions of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries—Ostap Slyvynsky

Posted On: July 15th, 2020

Posted In: Hromadske Radio, Literature, Sponsored Projects, Audio/Visual Media, Culture

We are talking about The Books of Jacob, by Olga Tokarczuk, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature. The plot of The Books of Jacob unfolds across several borders, and quite a few events take…

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