The protagonist of this biography, Jacob Orenstein, was a son of the “People of the Book”, the child of a bookseller-traveling salesman and a Jewish highlander. His life and work encompassed several political states —…
Guido Hausmann is head of the History Division of the Leibniz Institute for East and Southeast European Studies Regensburg and professor of History of Southeast and Eastern Europe at the University of Regensburg (Germany). He…
Our guest today is Maksym Hon, Doctor of Political Science, professor, head of the civic organization Mnemonics, and a specialist in Ukrainian-Jewish relations during the first half of the twentieth century in western Ukraine. Vasyl…
A conversation about “Galician California,” Bruno Schulz, oil, [Habsburg emperor] Franz Josef, and Jewish life in Western Ukraine. Our guest on today’s program is Dr. Vladyslava Moskalets, Senior Lecturer in the Department of History at…
A rescue during the Holocaust Since 2012, the European Day of the Righteous has been celebrated on 6 March. For more than half a century, the special commission of Yad Vashem, the World Holocaust Remembrance…
Andrii Portnov, a history professor at European University Viadrina, talks about antisemitism in Ukrainian cities of the Russian Empire, “riots of minors,” and parallels with the year 2014 in the Donbas. After a small, victorious war…
Our guest on the show is the literary specialist Marharyta Yehorchenko, editor and compiler of the publication Jewish Addresses of Ukraine (Dukh i Litera, 2020). Vasyl Shandro: Are we talking about these addresses exclusively in…
Unification for the sake of salvation Two thousand six hundred and fifty-nine people—that is the number of Ukrainian Righteous Among the Nations announced by Yad Vashem as of 1 January 2020. This figure will be…
Martin Dean, Historical Consultant to the BYHMC 9/28/2020 Where exactly did the SS and Police conduct the mass shootings at Babyn Yar on September 29-30, 1941, in which more than 33,000 Jews were shot, and…
In the summer of 2020, a monument to the victims of the anti-Jewish pogrom of 1918 was unveiled at the ancient Jewish cemetery in Hlukhiv, on the initiative of the chairman of that city’s Jewish…
