The idea for the novel Amadoka sprang from an interest in Viktor Petrov and the persecution and destruction of the Ukrainian intelligentsia in the 1930s—Sofia Andrukhovych

The title of the book, Amadoka, is derived from the name of the largest lake in Europe, situated on the territory of contemporary Ukraine. The novel is not about the lake but about its disappearance,...

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In the 1960s and 1970s, the USSR began to fear an alliance between Ukrainians and Jews. Therefore, the authorities published works aimed at causing a rift between them—Myroslav Shkandrij

We are continuing our conversation about the image of the Jew and the depictions of the Jewish community in twentieth-century Ukrainian literature. Our guest on the show is Myroslav Shkandrij, a literary historian, art specialist,...

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Ya’akov Frank: A Short Biography

[Editor’s note: The Ukrainian Jewish Encounter recently ran a series of interviews with Ostap Slyvynsky, translator of the Ukrainian-language edition of Nobel Prize winning writer Olga Tokarczuk’s monumental work The Books of Jacob, for Hromadske Radio’s UJE-supported Zustrichi program....

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