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Memory of the Holocaust during the Soviet period: permitted and proscribed practices

Posted On: July 15th, 2019

Posted In: Hromadske Radio, Sponsored Projects, Audio/Visual Media, The Holocaust in Ukraine, History

The historian Iryna Sklokina discusses the unofficial memory of the Holocaust during Soviet times, the search for unknown heroes, and the struggle to establish monuments. Today we will be talking about a lecture that took…

Ochyma Cultury: Roman Selsky and Margit Selska

Posted On: July 11th, 2019

Posted In: Culture, Visual Arts

Since 2011 Canadian literary scholar, cultural historian, and writer Marko Robert Stech has produced short (8- to 10-minute) Ukrainian-language TV segments Ochyma Cultury («Очима культури») dedicated to little-known and/or underappreciated phenomena in Ukrainian culture or,…

Tales from the Hutsul region, the meeting place of Oleksa Dovbush and Ba`al Shem Tov

Posted On: July 10th, 2019

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

Our featured guest today is Boris Czerny, who teaches Russian language and culture at the University of Caen Normandy in France. On today’s edition of Encounters, we have an opportunity to get to know a…

Viacheslav Chornovil, ‘General of the Zeks’: Fragments from the book “Ukrainian Silhouettes”

Posted On: July 4th, 2019

Posted In: Sponsored Projects, Istorychna Pravda, Other Programs, Diverse Voices

The Leningrad writer [Mikhail Kheifets] ends up behind KGB bars then in a camp in Mordovia, where the entire crème de la crème of the Ukrainian, Lithuanian, Armenian, Zionist, and other anti-communist resistance movements are…

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…

Ethno-Khutir-2019: the most powerful pro-Ukrainian cultural event in Israel

Posted On: June 28th, 2019

Posted In: Israeli Friends of Ukraine, Sponsored Projects, Other Programs

The fifth annual festival of Ukrainian culture in Israel, Ethno-Khutir, which took place on 28 June 2019 in Tel Aviv, set a new record for attendance. If in 2018 two thousand Israelis came to the…

Who was the creator of the Jewish Renaissance in Chernivtsi?

Posted On: June 24th, 2019

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

The historian Iryna Yavorska talks about “Jerusalem on the Prut River” after the war, Soviet propaganda, and the Yiddish language in Chernivtsi. Andriy Kobalia: The Second World War changed the face of many Ukrainian cities….

Lviv museum exhibit illuminates Ukrainian-Jewish history and culture

Posted On: June 17th, 2019

Posted In: UJE Initiatives, A Journey through the Ukrainian-Jewish Encounter, Exhibits

A remarkable exhibit at the Lviv Historical Museum explores the relationship between two of the peoples at the heart of this land. “A Journey Through the Ukrainian-Jewish Encounter: From Antiquity to 1939” focuses on the…

Radutsky: Oz and Appelfeld, two sons return to Ukraine

Posted On: June 14th, 2019

Posted In: UJE Initiatives, Book Fairs/Festivals, Literature, Culture, Outreach

Aharon Appelfeld and Amos Oz are two Israeli literary giants who died in 2018, nearly a year apart. Although they were writers from Israel, how many people know both were deeply connected to lands that…

“Jews on the Land”: Agro-Joint in the 1920s–1930s

Posted On: June 10th, 2019

Posted In: Jews on Ukrainian Lands, Sponsored Projects, Istorychna Pravda, Other Programs, History

Photo essay: A little-known page of Ukraine’s national history. Below is a photo essay about efforts to create Jewish colonies in the south of Ukraine and in Crimea with the help of Jewish organizations in…

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