Winter Reading: “The Key in the Pocket”
Winter is upon us; it’s the perfect time to grab a book or eReader, curl into a warm corner and lose yourself into a story. This holiday season, the Ukrainian Jewish Encounter and the Agnon Literary Center offer for winter reading The Key in the Pocket. The book is a multi-edition collection of stories by three prominent Ukrainian writers—Sofia Andrukhovych, Andriy Lyubka, and Yevheniya Senik—who in 2016 spent a week at a literary residence in Buchach, Ukraine, the birthplace of Nobel-prizing winner writer S.Y. Agnon. Evocative and deeply personal, the stories capture the essence of a physical space shaped by the many peoples who inhabited it and a long-gone era. But echoes remain, giving form to a new Ukrainian reality.
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The 2018 edition of The Key in the Pocket was the first of its kind—a trilingual book in Ukrainian, English and Hebrew whose publication was supported by UJE. A first edition of the book appeared in 2017 in the Ukrainian and English languages with the support of UJE and the Goethe-Institut Ukraine.
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