23rd Lviv Book Forum
The Ukrainian Jewish Encounter has become a traditional partner in supporting the Lviv Book Forum, Ukraine’s largest literary festival. Join us again this year for discussions of books by authors from Ukraine, Israel and Austria. Our program is below. The Ukrainian-language program is available here.
The Ukrainian Jewish Encounter at the 23rd Lviv Book Forum
15-18 September 2016
15 September, Thursday
11.00-11.55
The presentation of the Ukrainian-language edition of the book Zaznati Chudo?, a dialogue between Holocaust survivor Truda Rosenberg and her friend, the writer and book’s author Hania Fedorowitz, author of the Afterword “To See God Even in the Abyss of Hell” Myroslav Marynovych, and the translator Andrii Pavlyshyn.
Potocki Palace, Mirror Hall
12:00-12:45
“Agnon. Fifty Steps to Understanding. The Possibilities of Translation.” A discussion with Mariana Maksymiak (moderator), Oleksandr Krasovnytskii (Folio Publishers, Kharkiv), Yurii Matevoshchyk (Krok Publishers, Ternopil), and translators Sofia Andrukhovych, Petro Rykhla, Yevhenii Senyk, Ostap Slyvynskii, and Anna Khromova.
Potocki Palace, Mirror Hall
16 September, Friday
14:00-14:45
A commemoration of the 100th anniversary of the death of Sholem Aleichem and Ukrainian translations of the renowned writer; with the participation of Leonid Finberg (Center for Studies of the History and Culture of East European Jewry), founder of the Sholem Aleichem Jewish Cultural Society of Lviv Boris Dorfman, and the journalist Mark Simkin (Lviv).
Potocki Palace, Blue Hall
17.00-17.45
A presentation of the creative works of the native of Buchach, chronicler of the Warsaw Ghetto, and renowned Hebrew-language Israeli writer Ruben Feldschu (1900- 1980), with the participation of Dr. Laurence Weinbaum, Acting Director General of the World Jewish Congress in Israel, Israel Council on Foreign Relations Director, and Chief Editor, The Israel Journal of Foreign Affairs; moderator Andrii Pavlyshyn.
Potocki Palace, Mirror Hall
17 September, Saturday
10.30-12.00
A presentation of the Ukrainian-language edition of the book Jews and Ukrainians: A Millenium of Co-Existence by Paul Robert Magocsi and Johanan Petrovsky-Shtern (Valery Padyak Publisher, Uzhhorod, 2016), with the participation of Professor Magocsi and translator Oksana Forostyn; and the announcement of the publication of the book Babyn Yar: History and Memory (published by Dukh I Litera, Kyiv, 2016), with the participation of the co-editor of the book, historian and Doctor of Political Sciences Vladyslav Hrynevych.
Potocki Palace. Mirror Hall.
18 September, Sunday
12.00-13.15
A presentation of the book Jewish Artists in Lviv in the First Half of the Twentieth Century. Life. Creation. Fate by Galina Glembotskaya (Lviv), with the participation of the art historian Vita Susak (Lviv-Geneva) and the journalist Mark Simkin (Lviv).
Potocki Palace, Mirror Hall
