Jews and Ukrainians: Examining A Shared Narrative
Although they have lived side by side for over a millennium on the territory of modern day Ukraine, there is much Ukrainians and Jews do not know about each other. That has frequently led to...
Although they have lived side by side for over a millennium on the territory of modern day Ukraine, there is much Ukrainians and Jews do not know about each other. That has frequently led to...
Ukrainian Jewish Encounter, with the support of the Government of Canada, sponsored the publication of Jews and Ukrainians: A Millennium of Co-Existence. There is much that ordinary Ukrainians do not know about Jews and that...
Dr. Vitaliy Nakhmanovych outlines the problem: there is no will by various groups to create a common vision of Babyn Yar. Historically Babyn Yar emerged as an example of mass shootings of Kyivan Jews, and...
Volodymyr Viatrovych, the director of the Ukrainian Institute of National Remembrance, outlines the events in Kyiv in the early days of the German occupation during the Second World War. The German army entered Kyiv on...
Welcome to Ukrainian Jewish Heritage on Nash Holos Ukrainian Roots Radio. I’m Peter Bejger. Today we look at symbols and mythologies. When competing narratives on history clash, the battle over symbols becomes heated and emotional....
Welcome to Ukrainian Jewish Heritage on Nash Holos Ukrainian Roots Radio. I’m Peter Bejger. Seventy-five years ago, nearly 34,000 Jews were murdered at Babyn Yar over a two-day period on September 29th and 30th 1941....
The program includes: the “Kaddish-Requiem” by Yevhen Stankovych, based on the poems of Dmytro Pavlychko; “A German Requiem” by Brahms; and “Kol Nidrei” by Max Bruch. The opera singer and concert producer Pavlo Hunka is...
The Ukrainian-language edition of Jews and Ukrainians: A Millennium of Co-Existence by Paul Robert Magocsi and Yohanan Petrovsky-Shtern was awarded special recognition as one of the best books at the Lviv Book Forum 2016 by...
Buchach is the homeland of the Nobel Laureate writer Agnon. In this program we talk about the Agnon Literature Center that aims to “put Buchach on the literary map of the world.” Shmuel Yosef Agnon...
Welcome to Ukrainian Jewish Heritage on Nash Holos Ukrainian Roots Radio. I’m Peter Bejger. Courage and fear. The first quality mobilizes action. The second emotion can paralyze the brain, but not always the heart....