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The tradition of mutual influence in the cultures of humankind is immense, and we do not know much about it: Leonid Finberg

Posted On: May 10th, 2021

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

A conversation about new books published by Dukh i Litera Our guest on today’s show is Leonid Finberg, director of the Center for the Studies of History and Culture of East European Jewry and editor…

Omer Bartov: “I feel a particular responsibility for understanding the history of the Jewish people”

Posted On: May 5th, 2021

Posted In: Ukraina Moderna, Literature, Sponsored Projects, Culture, The Holocaust in Ukraine, Other Programs, History

Professor Bartov, please tell us what influenced your choice of the profession of historian? What personal factors and people contributed to your choosing research topics? I have been interested in history since my youth, possibly…

“I would not consider writing with light on the bell tower of the Cathedral of Saint Sophia a Hanukkah tradition”—Diana Klochko

Posted On: May 3rd, 2021

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

A conversation with art historian Diana Klochko about Hanukkah, Christmas, and New Year’s lights Iryna Slavinska: How new is the Kyiv tradition of installing Hanukkah candles on Kontraktova Ploshcha? Diana Klochko: They have been installed…

Lord, You will open my mouth… Josef Zissels in conversations with Iza Khruslinska

Posted On: April 28th, 2021

Posted In: Dukh i Litera Digital Library, Jews on Ukrainian Lands, Literature, Sponsored Projects, Culture, History

In conversations with the renowned Polish journalist Iza Khruslinska, Josef Zissels – former political prisoner and dissident, head of the Association of the Jewish Organizations and Communities of Ukraine, executive vice-president of the Congress of…

Women in the Bible are disenfranchised and treated like chattel, and their virginity—like currency: Ostap Slyvynsky

Posted On: April 26th, 2021

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

We talked about Ostap Slyvynsky’s poetic cycle Imena [Names], which features figures of women whose names we have heard but have not paid attention to them. Ostap Slyvynsky: For the first time, I decided to…

Book Review: Anatomy of a Genocide: The Life and Death of a Town Called Buczacz*

Posted On: April 21st, 2021

Posted In: Ukraina Moderna, Literature, Sponsored Projects, Culture, The Holocaust in Ukraine, Other Programs, History

This review of Omer Bartov’s book Anatomy of a Genocide: The Life and Death of a Town Called Buczacz by Vladyslava Moskalets first appeared in the quarterly journal Ab Imperio (2019. No 2. Pp. 115–122.)….

Honored anti-Semite: How Trofim Kichko became the star of anti-Zionism

Posted On: April 19th, 2021

Posted In: Hadashot, Jews on Ukrainian Lands, Literature, Sponsored Projects, Culture, Other Programs, History

In the final decades of the Soviet era, hundreds of anti-Zionist books and brochures were published in millions of copies. Many authors secured themselves a steady income through their critique of “Jewish bourgeois nationalism.” Yet,…

Taras Shevchenko, “Kobzar”, Bilingual Edition

Posted On: April 15th, 2021

Posted In: Dukh i Litera Digital Library, Literature, Sponsored Projects, Culture

This book, which belongs to the Dukh i Litera digital library project, is a bilingual edition of selected works from Taras Shevchenko’s Kobzar. All Yiddish translations included here were made throughout the 1920s and 1930s…

A new digital library

Posted On: April 15th, 2021

Posted In: Dukh i Litera Digital Library, Sponsored Projects

For more than 25 years, the Ukrainian publishing house Dukh i Litera has introduced readers to Ukrainian and world classics, as well as to the latest research in the fields of philosophy, history, social sciences,…

“The individual and collective memory of Yevbaz is a certain construct; it is a mosaic of personal experience and the recollections of relatives and neighbors”: A conversation with Maryna Hrymych, pt. 2

Posted On: April 14th, 2021

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

The continuation of the conversation about the Jewish Bazaar, Yevbaz, the renowned location in Kyiv that is portrayed in the novels of Maryna Hrymych. Iryna Slavinska: What is Yevbaz today? Maryna Hrymych: Today, Yevbaz is…

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