The states that were formed after the First World War arose around the idea of an "exclusive nation" based on the culture of dominant ethnic groups: A historian discusses the interethnic coexistence of Galicians

A look at the inter-ethnic coexistence and cohabitation of Galicians in the years between the two world wars A conversation with Petro Chorniy, a historian, social anthropologist, Candidate of Historical Sciences, and Research Fellow of...

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The Ukrainian-language edition of Doris Bergen’s book "War and Genocide: A Concise History of the Holocaust" has appeared

The book's strength lies in its accounts, devoid of excessive simplification, of events and the life of Jews and other victims of the Nazi regime. A conversation with Tetiana Borodina, the scholarly co-editor of this...

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American funds, Yiddishization, and repressions: The history of one family against the backdrop of the first decades of the USSR

The historian Iryna Radchenko discusses Dnipro[petrovsk] during the interwar period, Stalinist repressions, and the denunciation of the Jewish physician Boris Khanis.  In the hundred years between the second half of the nineteenth century and the...

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“The Polish ministry and the government did everything possible to ensure that the truth about this pogrom would be forever hidden away in the archives”—Pavlyshyn on Grzegorz Gauden’s book

The first part of our conversation with the translator Andriy Pavlyshyn about Grzegorz Gauden’s book Lviv: The End of Illusions; The Story of the November 1918 Pogrom Iryna Slavinska: Who is Grzegorz Gauden? Andriy Pavlyshyn:...

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At the beginning of the 20th century, Boryslav was the world’s third-largest producer of oil after Pennsylvania and Baku — Vladyslava Moskalets

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...

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