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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Victor’s Vignettes: My Baba said …
Read more: Victor’s Vignettes: My Baba said …Baba is what I called my granny on my father’s side … or sometimes just simply “Ba.” My Baba was an amazing woman. Her folk wisdom and wit still inspire me to this day … even though I didn’t really even know her. I was only two years old when she died, so there were…
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First Star I See Tonight: A Knyzhka Corner Book Review
Read more: First Star I See Tonight: A Knyzhka Corner Book ReviewIn this edition of Knyzka Corner, we will be discussing Orysia Tracz’s book, First Star I See Tonight: Ukrainian Christmas Traditions. Orysia Tracz explores the origins, rituals, and cultural significance of Ukrainian Christmas traditions in her first book, First Star I See Tonight. This book includes a number of articles about Ukrainian Christmas celebrations in…
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Knyzhka Corner Book Review: The Torture Camp on Paradise Street
Read more: Knyzhka Corner Book Review: The Torture Camp on Paradise StreetIn this edition of Knyzka Corner, we will be discussing Stanislav Aseyev’s, The Torture Camp on Paradise Street. The Torture Camp on Paradise Street, translated by Zenia Tompkins and Nina Murray and published by the Ukrainian Research Institute at Harvard University, is a personal memoir of Stanislav Aseyev’s two and a half years in illegal…
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In Isolation – Dispatches from Occupied Donbas: A Knyzhka Corner Book Review
Read more: In Isolation – Dispatches from Occupied Donbas: A Knyzhka Corner Book ReviewIn this edition of Knyzka Corner, we will be discussing Stanislav Aseyev’s, In Isolation – Dispatches from Occupied Donbas. In Isolation – Dispatches from Occupied Donbas, translated by Lidia Wolanskyj and published by the Ukrainian Research Institute at Harvard University, outlines the experiences of journalist and patriot Stanislav Aseyev as he faces repression, war, captivity,…
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Ukrainian Jewish Heritage: Jars Balan on Holodomor reports by Canadian journalist Rhea Clyman (Part 1)
Read more: Ukrainian Jewish Heritage: Jars Balan on Holodomor reports by Canadian journalist Rhea Clyman (Part 1)Rhea Clyman is a journalist who is little known today in the Jewish or Ukrainian communities, or for that matter, by Canadians in general. But in her day she reached international acclaim for her coverage of the Soviet Union, including the 1932-33 man-made Ukrainian famine known as the Holodomor, and the rise of Nazi Germany.…
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Ukrainian Jewish Heritage Book Review: Rebbe
Read more: Ukrainian Jewish Heritage Book Review: RebbeIn this edition of Ukrainian-Jewish Heritage, we will be discussing Joseph Telushkin’s biography, Rebbe – The Life and Teachings of Menachem M. Schneerson, The Most Influential Rabbi in Modern History. Rebbe examines the life and teachings of one of the most prominent and respected Jewish scholars of our time. Born in 1902 in Nikolayev…
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Knyzhka Corner Book Review: Putin’s War on Ukraine
Read more: Knyzhka Corner Book Review: Putin’s War on UkraineIn this edition of Knyzka Corner, we will be discussing Samuel Ramani’s book Putin’s War on Ukraine – Russia’s Campaign for Global Counter-Revolution. Published in 2023, Samuel Ramani’s Putin’s War on Ukraine is a comprehensive analysis of the causes, events, and impacts of Putin’s “special operation.” The very first sentence of this book is a…
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Knyzhka Corner: Holodomor in Ukraine – The Genocidal Famine 1932-1933
Read more: Knyzhka Corner: Holodomor in Ukraine – The Genocidal Famine 1932-1933In this edition of Knyzka Corner, we will be discussing Valentina Kuryliw’s Holodomor in Ukraine – The Genocidal Famine 1932-1933. Holodomor in Ukraine provides, “Learning Materials for Teachers and Students,” but any reader would learn a great deal from this resource, which is a thorough examination of the Holodomor in Ukraine during the years 1932-1933.…
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Knyzka Corner Book Review: Firebird
Read more: Knyzka Corner Book Review: FirebirdIn this edition of Knyzka Corner, we will be discussing Glen Huser’s novel, Firebird. Fourteen-year old Alex Kaminsky and his older brother Marco live with their Uncle Andrew on an Alberta farm. Marco is a talented artist, but he decides he must find work with a threshing crew in September 1915. One night in early…
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Knyzhka Corner Book Review: Winterkill
Read more: Knyzhka Corner Book Review: WinterkillIn this edition of Knyzka Corner, we will be discussing Marsha Forchuk Skrypuch’s novel, Winterkill. Winterkill examines the experience of Ukrainians during the Holodomor of the 1930’s. The narrative describes the conscious choice of Russian Soviet authorities to starve Ukrainian farmers and their families in order to impose Stalin’s five-year plan. “It was supposed to…