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Honored anti-Semite: How Trofim Kichko became the star of anti-Zionism

Posted On: April 19th, 2021

Posted In: Hadashot, Jews on Ukrainian Lands, Literature, Sponsored Projects, Culture, Other Programs, History

In the final decades of the Soviet era, hundreds of anti-Zionist books and brochures were published in millions of copies. Many authors secured themselves a steady income through their critique of “Jewish bourgeois nationalism.” Yet,…

Taras Shevchenko, “Kobzar”, Bilingual Edition

Posted On: April 15th, 2021

Posted In: Dukh i Litera Digital Library, Literature, Sponsored Projects, Culture

This book, which belongs to the Dukh i Litera digital library project, is a bilingual edition of selected works from Taras Shevchenko’s Kobzar. All Yiddish translations included here were made throughout the 1920s and 1930s…

A new digital library

Posted On: April 15th, 2021

Posted In: Dukh i Litera Digital Library, Sponsored Projects

For more than 25 years, the Ukrainian publishing house Dukh i Litera has introduced readers to Ukrainian and world classics, as well as to the latest research in the fields of philosophy, history, social sciences,…

“The individual and collective memory of Yevbaz is a certain construct; it is a mosaic of personal experience and the recollections of relatives and neighbors”: A conversation with Maryna Hrymych, pt. 2

Posted On: April 14th, 2021

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

The continuation of the conversation about the Jewish Bazaar, Yevbaz, the renowned location in Kyiv that is portrayed in the novels of Maryna Hrymych. Iryna Slavinska: What is Yevbaz today? Maryna Hrymych: Today, Yevbaz is…

Any endeavor should have a “gesheft”: A conversation about Yevbaz with Maryna Hrymych, pt. 1

Posted On: April 12th, 2021

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

A conversation with the writer and Doctor of Historical Sciences Maryna Hrymych. We talked about the Jewish Bazaar, a well-known area in Kyiv depicted in her novels. Iryna Slavinska: What is Yevbaz? Maryna Hrymych: Yevbaz…

Vasyl Avramenko (1895-1981)

Posted On: April 8th, 2021

Posted In: Did You Know?, Culture

Vasyl Avramenko (1895-1981). Ukrainian actor, dancer, choreographer, ballet master, movie director, and film producer, considered the father of Ukrainian folk dance in North America. Avramenko is credited with spreading the art form across the world…

The “Eastern Action” of the OUN(b) and the Anti-Jewish Violence in the Summer of 1941: The Cases of Smotrych and Kupyn

Posted On: April 7th, 2021

Posted In: Ukraina Moderna, Sponsored Projects, The Holocaust in Ukraine, Other Programs, History

This article by Andriy Usach originally appeared in Euxeinos, Vol. 9, No. 27/2019 (Pp. 63-84). We thank the editors for their permission to reuse these materials. Abstract: The article analyses the role of the OUN(b)…

How the police chief of Budaniv gave up his life for the Jews

Posted On: April 5th, 2021

Posted In: Hadashot, Sponsored Projects, The Holocaust in Ukraine, Other Programs, History

The western Ukrainian village of Budaniv (Pol. Budzanów) in the Ternopil region boasts a number of Jewish historical monuments. Recently, the traditional triad of “synagogue–Jewish development–cemetery” was supplemented by the installation of a monument to…

Museum of the Jewish People: What is Israel’s latest tourist attraction about?

Posted On: April 1st, 2021

Posted In: Commentary, Culture, Commentary and Analysis, Ethnography

Opened in the spring of 2021 after a large-scale renewal that lasted for ten years, the former Museum of the Diaspora got a new name, a new concept, and a totally updated exhibition. I spent…

Vitaly Portnikov: Shevchenko was not an anti-Semite

Posted On: March 29th, 2021

Posted In: Commentary, Ukrainian- Jewish Relations History, History, Commentary and Analysis

[Editor’s note: This article by renowned journalist Vitaly Portinikov originally appeared in November 2018.] One hundred and sixty years ago, in November 1858, the journal Russkii vestnik (Russian Messenger) published a letter written by a…

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