{"id":12266,"date":"2018-11-20T00:36:07","date_gmt":"2018-11-20T00:36:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ukrainianjewishencounter.org\/?p=12266"},"modified":"2019-10-16T19:48:40","modified_gmt":"2019-10-16T19:48:40","slug":"the-key-in-the-pocket-stories-of-buchach-ukraine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ukrainianjewishencounter.org\/en\/the-key-in-the-pocket-stories-of-buchach-ukraine\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018The Key in the Pocket\u2019:  Stories of Buchach, Ukraine"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p><em><a href=\"http:\/\/ukrainianjewishencounter.org\/media\/KeyinPocket4.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-12269\" src=\"http:\/\/ukrainianjewishencounter.org\/media\/KeyinPocket4.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"703\" height=\"442\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ukrainianjewishencounter.org\/media\/KeyinPocket4.jpg 703w, https:\/\/ukrainianjewishencounter.org\/media\/KeyinPocket4-500x314.jpg 500w, https:\/\/ukrainianjewishencounter.org\/media\/KeyinPocket4-700x440.jpg 700w, https:\/\/ukrainianjewishencounter.org\/media\/KeyinPocket4-350x220.jpg 350w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 703px) 100vw, 703px\" \/><\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><a href=\"http:\/\/ukrainianjewishencounter.org\/en\/returning-agnon-ukraine\/\">The Key in the Pocket<\/a><\/em> is a multi-edition collection of stories by three prominent Ukrainian writers\u2014<a href=\"http:\/\/ukrainianjewishencounter.org\/en\/buchach-jerusalem-a-bridge-of-inspiration-for-new-ukrainian-literature\/\">Sofia Andrukhovych<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/ukrainianjewishencounter.org\/en\/crossing-borders-ukrainian-writer-andriy-lyubka\/\">Andriy Lyubka<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/ukrainianjewishencounter.org\/en\/s-y-agnon-buchach-key-pocket\/\">Yevheniya Senik<\/a>\u2014who spent a week at a literary residence in Buchach, Ukraine, the birthplace of Nobel-prizing winner writer S.Y. Agnon.<\/p>\n<p>Immersed in a landscape many ways unchanged since Agnon\u2019s only visit to Buchach in August 1930 after moving to Ottoman-ruled Palestine in 1908, the Ukrainian writers penned nine stories of curiosity and longing. The results of their efforts were published in two separate editions of <em>The Key in the Pocket.<\/em> The volume\u2019s first edition was comprised of stories in Ukrainian and English and published in 2017.\u00a0 A second edition, published this year, is the first of its kind\u2014a trilingual book in Ukrainian, English and Hebrew. Agnon principally wrote in Hebrew and made the language into an art form.<\/p>\n<p>Mariana Maksymiak, director of the Agnon Literary Center in Buchach, Ukraine, discussed the genesis of the literary residence and the separate editions of <em>The Key in the Pocket <\/em>at two events held in Lviv, Ukraine this fall. She and Senik appeared at the Limmud Ukraine conference in November. In September, Maksymiak and Ukrainian filmmaker Oleksandr Fraze-Frazenko spoke at the city\u2019s 25<sup>th<\/sup> Book Forum. Their discussion included the screening of a short film shot by Fraze-Frazenko and produced by the Agnon Literary Center based on Agnon\u2019s book <em>A Guest for the Night<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0861a6;\"><strong>Mariana Maksymiak, Director of the Agnon Literary Center in Buchach, Ukraine and Ukrainian writer Yevheniya Senik at a discussion of <em>The Key in the Pocket<\/em> at Limmud Ukraine, 2 November 2018. <\/strong><em>(in Ukrainian)\u00a0<\/em> <\/span><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Mariana Maksymiak and Yevheniya Senik at Limmud Ukraine, 2 November 2018.\" width=\"860\" height=\"484\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/O0f38ET-qZ8?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>00:00-01:47<br \/>\nSvetlana Shimon, Administrator Kyiv Office, Ukrainian Jewish Encounter.<\/p>\n<p>01:48-10:24<br \/>\nMariana Maksymiak, Director, Agnon Literary Center.<\/p>\n<p>10:25-24:24<br \/>\nYevheniya Senik, Ukrainian writer<strong>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>24:25-26:06<br \/>\nMariana Maksymiak, Director, Agnon Literary Center.<\/p>\n<p>26:06-40:08<br \/>\nQuestion and answer.<\/p>\n<p>40:09-end<br \/>\nSvetlana Shimon, Administrator Kyiv Office, Ukrainian Jewish Encounter.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0861a6;\"><strong>Mariana Maksymiak, Director of the Agnon Literary Center in Buchach, Ukraine, and Ukrainian filmmaker Oleksandr Fraze-Frazenko discuss projects related to S.Y Agnon at the 25<sup>th<\/sup> Book Forum in Lviv, Ukraine, 20 September 2018. The presentation was moderated by Andriy Pavlyshyn. <\/strong><em>(in Ukrainian)<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Mariana Maksymiak, Andriy Pavlyshyn and Oleksandr Fraze-Frazenko, 20 September 2018.\" width=\"860\" height=\"484\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/2nAUAMv_ZrI?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>00:00-00:43<br \/>\nAndriy Pavlyshyn, moderator.<\/p>\n<p>00:44-3:29<br \/>\nNatalia A. Feduschak, Director of Communications, Ukrainian Jewish Encounter.<\/p>\n<p>3:30-8:40<br \/>\nMariana Maksymiak, Director, Agnon Literary Center.<\/p>\n<p>8:41-10:45<br \/>\nOleksandr Fraze-Frazenko, Ukrainian filmmaker.<\/p>\n<p>10:44-12:09<br \/>\nMariana Maksymiak, Director, Agnon Literary Center.<\/p>\n<p>12:10-16:28<br \/>\nPresentation of short film, \u201cA Guest for the Night\u201d by Oleksandr Fraze-Frazenko, produced by the Agnon Literary Center.<\/p>\n<p>16:29-19:06<br \/>\nQuestion and answer with moderator Andriy Pavlyshyn.<\/p>\n<h5><em>Text and video: Natalia A. Feduschak, Ukrainian Jewish Encounter<\/em><\/h5>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Key in the Pocket is a multi-edition collection of stories by three prominent Ukrainian writers\u2014Sofia Andrukhovych, Andriy Lyubka, and Yevheniya Senik\u2014who spent a week at a literary residence in Buchach, Ukraine, the birthplace of...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":12269,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[68,19,124,144,40,114,8,66],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12266","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-book-fairs-festivals","category-uje-initiatives","category-sponsored-projects","category-agnon_literary_centre","category-literature","category-publications","category-culture","category-outreach","primary-category-124","primary-category-sponsored-projects"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ukrainianjewishencounter.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12266","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ukrainianjewishencounter.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ukrainianjewishencounter.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ukrainianjewishencounter.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ukrainianjewishencounter.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12266"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ukrainianjewishencounter.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12266\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12271,"href":"https:\/\/ukrainianjewishencounter.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12266\/revisions\/12271"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ukrainianjewishencounter.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12269"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ukrainianjewishencounter.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12266"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ukrainianjewishencounter.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12266"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ukrainianjewishencounter.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12266"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}