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    Nash Holos Ukrainian Roots Radio

    Posted On: July 21st, 2015
    Posted In: Nash Holos, Sponsored Projects, Audio/Visual Media

    Ukrainian Jewish Heritage is a radio series of vignettes highlighting the significant Jewish contribution to Ukraine’s cultural heritage and nation-building efforts over the centuries. The vignettes are presented in English and explore a variety of...

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    The Jewish holiday Purim

    Posted On: February 25th, 2021
    Posted In: Nash Holos, Sponsored Projects, Audio/Visual Media, Culture, Religion

    Purim is a holiday Jews observe in memory of an ancient Jewish victory. The story of Purim is recounted in the Book of Esther in the Bible. It’s a story of treachery and warfare in...

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    Lost Shtetls of Ukraine

    Posted On: August 26th, 2019
    Posted In: Jews on Ukrainian Lands, Nash Holos, Sponsored Projects, Audio/Visual Media, History

    The Jewish population of Ukraine before the Second World War was over 2.5 million. Now the current population is only around 100,000. A whole world with its very own culture, rules, and customs was decimated...

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    A conversation with Diane Covert, an American Jewish photographer who documents genocide and terrorism

    Posted On: July 23rd, 2019
    Posted In: Nash Holos, Sponsored Projects, Audio/Visual Media, Visual Arts, Culture

    Diane Covert is a Boston-based photographer who uses her talent and love of the craft to bring attention to genocide and terrorism. Diane’s work was brought to my attention by Allison Zivin at the Felshtin...

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    Interview with Dave Bloom

    Posted On: July 2nd, 2019
    Posted In: Jews on Ukrainian Lands, Nash Holos, Sponsored Projects, Audio/Visual Media, History

    Dave Bloom is a member of the board of an organization dedicated to preserving the story of two Jewish communities and surrounding areas in Ukraine. One of them is called Drohobycz and the other is...

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    A chat with Julia Korsunsky of RememberUs.org

    Posted On: April 29th, 2019
    Posted In: Jews on Ukrainian Lands, Nash Holos, Sponsored Projects, Audio/Visual Media, The Holocaust in Ukraine, History

    Today we’ll be speaking with Julia Korsunsky, whose story we first heard on Nash Holos last year. Julia is the Executive Director of RememberUs.org, a non-profit organization based in Massachusetts. Her organization is involved in...

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    Hava Nagila—the song, the story and the movie

    Posted On: March 21st, 2019
    Posted In: Nash Holos, Sponsored Projects, Audio/Visual Media, Culture, Music, Cinema

    Hava Nagila. The words are Hebrew for Let Us Rejoice. They also comprise the title of one of the most recognizable and well-known songs in the world. And little did I know just how appropriate a...

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    Interview with Ruth Ellen Gruber (Pt. 2)

    Posted On: March 6th, 2019
    Posted In: Literature, Nash Holos, Sponsored Projects, Audio/Visual Media, Culture

    Ruth Ellen Gruber is an American journalist, author, editor and researcher. Her book, Jewish Heritage Travel: A Guide to Eastern Europe, was first published twenty-five years ago and is still considered the most complete Jewish...

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    Interview with Ruth Ellen Gruber (Pt. 1)

    Posted On: February 28th, 2019
    Posted In: Literature, Nash Holos, Sponsored Projects, Audio/Visual Media, Culture

    Ruth Ellen Gruber is an American journalist, author, editor and researcher. She has published and lectured widely and has won several awards for her work on Jewish heritage and contemporary Jewish issues in Europe. Her...

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    Commemorating the 1919 pogroms—a chat with the president of the Felshtin Society

    Posted On: February 14th, 2019
    Posted In: Jews on Ukrainian Lands, Nash Holos, Sponsored Projects, Audio/Visual Media, History

    Ukrainian Jewish Heritage is a series that has been ongoing here at Nash Holos for several years now, sponsored by the Ukrainian Jewish Encounter of Toronto. The series … for me and also, I hope,...

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    Memoir by Holocaust survivor Jack Glotzer

    Posted On: December 4th, 2018
    Posted In: Nash Holos, Sponsored Projects, Audio/Visual Media, The Holocaust in Ukraine

    Rohatyn is a city in western Ukraine with a centuries-old Jewish heritage that was almost completely destroyed by the Holocaust and its aftermath. Like many cities and towns across Ukraine, however, work is being done...

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    Encounter: The Ukrainian-Jewish Literary Prize  

    The 'Encounter' prize aims to build on the common experiences of Ukrainians and Jews over the centuries, expressed in literature and nonfiction. The Prize will be awarded annually to the most influential work in literature and nonfiction (in alternate years) that fosters Ukrainian-Jewish understanding, helping solidify Ukraine's place as a multi-ethnic society and giving truth to the motto, "Our stories are incomplete without each other."

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    The goal of the richly illustrated catalogue is to present an integrated narrative that looks at the experience of these two peoples together, in all its complexity — through periods of crisis, as well as long stretches of normal co-existence and multifaceted cultural interaction from antiquity to 1914.

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