Between Buchach and Jerusalem

Agnon House's Jeffrey Saks discusses the situation in Ukraine with Natalia Feduschak, Director of Communications at Ukrainian Jewish Encounter (UJE), and Vasyl Makhno, a Ukrainian poet, playwright and essayist. They discuss the pull of Agnon's Ukrainian hometown Buchach on the literary imagination, a sense of place in writing, on creating an imagined homeland in exile, and the nature of war's long impact on memory and art.

Episode links:
Makhno's poem in LA Review of Books
Agnon Literary Residency Essays

Related: S.Y. Agnon was inspired by his now-reeling Ukrainian hometown