Features is the home for special content from Nash Holos Ukrainian Roots Radio. It includes interviews, commentaries, book reviews, and other recurring and occasional contributions to the program. Below is the latest content from the Features category.
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Ukrainian Jewish Heritage: Agnon of Buchach
Read more: Ukrainian Jewish Heritage: Agnon of BuchachThe Agnon Literary Center: restoring the link between contemporary Buchach and a literary legend. Welcome to Ukrainian Jewish Heritage on Nash Holos Ukrainian Roots Radio. I’m Peter Bejger. Today—some reflections on periphery and center, the province and global culture, and a literary legacy interrupted, lost, and re-imagined. Buchach is a charming town of some twelve…
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Ukrainian Jewish Heritage: Agnon Literary Center
Read more: Ukrainian Jewish Heritage: Agnon Literary CenterToday—some reflections on periphery and center, the province and global culture, and a literary legacy interrupted, lost, and re-imagined. Buchach is a charming town of some twelve thousand people. It is nestled along a river among picturesque forests of the southern Ternopil region of western Ukraine. As with many small towns, the atmosphere is placid.…
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Ukrainian Jewish Heritage: Hannukah 2015
Read more: Ukrainian Jewish Heritage: Hannukah 2015Hanukkah is a joyous holiday, celebrated every year by Jews around the world with the lighting of candles or wicks in olive oil on a candelabra called a “menorah”, or “hanukkiya* in modern Hebrew. Traditional Hanukkah treats include potato latkes, called plyatsky or deruny in Ukrainian, and sufganiyot, doughnuts with jam, called pampushky in Ukrainian.…
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Ukrainian Jewish Heritage: Propaganda—Holocaust vs Holodomor
Read more: Ukrainian Jewish Heritage: Propaganda—Holocaust vs HolodomorPropaganda. A loaded term that, today, has become so clichéd that its original definition is lost in a sea of moral equivalence. Once, propaganda was merely a word describing … the dissemination of ideas, information or rumour … for the purpose of helping or injuring … an institution, a cause, or a person. Today, unfortunately,…
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Ukrainian Jewish Heritage: Sheptytsky from A to Z
Read more: Ukrainian Jewish Heritage: Sheptytsky from A to ZToday we will play a game with the alphabet. “A” is for aristocrat, someone who is privileged but also someone who can be considered the best of its kind. “A” is also for ascetic, someone who practices profound self-discipline and abstains from the worldly pleasures of life. “A” is also for Andrei, as in Andrei…
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Ukrainian Jewish Heritage: Film Review— Saved by Sheptytsky
Read more: Ukrainian Jewish Heritage: Film Review— Saved by Sheptytsky“No harm will come to you here. You are safe. “ Lilly Pohlman says she will remember these words till the end of her days. Along with the memory of a giant of a man gently reassuring her after experiencing the horror of Nazi brutality. Over 150 other Jews who survived the Holocaust in Ukraine…
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Knyzhka Corner Book Review: The Sea is Only Knee Deep
Read more: Knyzhka Corner Book Review: The Sea is Only Knee Deep The Sea is Only Knee Deep is the true story of Paulina Zelitsky’s defection to Canada from the Soviet Union with her two young children in 1971. These two volumes explore many topics including: Stalin’s final years, Fidel Castro’s Cuba, and the dangers defecting. Paulina’s story begins in Cuba in 1968. She is part…
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Ukrainian Jewish Heritage: Limmud FSU in Lviv 2014 & 2015
Read more: Ukrainian Jewish Heritage: Limmud FSU in Lviv 2014 & 2015From November 6-9, 2014, Limmud FSU hosted more than 600 Jews from around Ukraine and the former Soviet Union, taking over the Hotel Dniester in Lviv’s old city, a UNESCO World Heritage site. They were there to attend presentations on Jewish art, music, culture and history hosted by Limmud FSU. They were also there to…
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Ukrainian Jewish Heritage: Night songs from a neighboring village
Read more: Ukrainian Jewish Heritage: Night songs from a neighboring villageWelcome to Ukrainian Jewish Heritage on Nash Holos Ukrainian Roots Radio. I’m Peter Bejger. Consider the following: Night songs from a neighboring village Come drifting at times to my balcony They quench my sorrow, caress my melancholy Flow like liquid honey Today we would like to honor the remarkable long-term music project that is called…
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Ukrainian Jewish Heritage: Stories of Khmelnytsky
Read more: Ukrainian Jewish Heritage: Stories of KhmelnytskyA fascinating new book just published by Stanford University Press tackles the controversial legacy of a man in the shadows of history—Bohdan Khmelnytsky, a leader of the Ukrainian Cossacks in the 17th century. Stories of Khmelnytsky, sponsored in part by the Ukrainian Jewish Encounter, features provocative essays by distinguished scholars from throughout North America, Europe,…