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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Knyzhka Corner Audio Bookshelf: Canada and the Ukrainian Crisis
Read more: Knyzhka Corner Audio Bookshelf: Canada and the Ukrainian CrisisIn this edition of Knyzka Corner, we will be discussing Canada and the Ukrainian Crisis by Bohdan Kordan and Mitchell Dowie. Canada and the Ukrainian Crisis examines how Canada supported Ukraine after Russia’s annexation of Crimea and the destabilization of Donetsk and Luhansk in 2014. This bilateral relationship has continued to evolve as it adapts…
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Rosh Hashana 2022 and the Uman Pilgrimage
Read more: Rosh Hashana 2022 and the Uman PilgrimageTranscript: Rosh Hashana is the name for the Jewish New Year. In Hebrew it means the “head of the year.” Rosh Hashanah is one of the most important religious holidays for Jews. It is the first of the Jewish High Holy Days, as specified by Leviticus 23:23–25. Rosh Hashanah marks the first day of the…
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Survival As Victory: A Knyzhka Corner Book Review
Read more: Survival As Victory: A Knyzhka Corner Book ReviewSurvival as Victory by Oksana Kis explores how Ukrainian women endured and resisted Soviet repression in the Gulag. Drawing on over 150 personal accounts, this powerful work reveals how identity, faith, and dignity became acts of defiance. Myra Junyk reviews Kis’s groundbreaking work, highlighting its relevance amid renewed aggression against Ukraine in 2022. Transcript: In…
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Knyzka Corner Book Review: The Woman at the Gates
Read more: Knyzka Corner Book Review: The Woman at the GatesIn this edition of Knyzka Corner, we will be discussing Chrystyna Lucyk-Berger’s historical novel, The Woman at the Gates. The Woman at the Gates begins in the summer of 1945 in Bavaria. Antonia, her sister Lena, and her two nephews are recovering after their harrowing experiences in World War II. They have fond memories of…
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Knyzhka Corner Book Review: A Sky Full of Wings
Read more: Knyzhka Corner Book Review: A Sky Full of WingsIn this edition of Knyzka Corner, we will be discussing Ksenia Rychtyka’s poetry chapbook, A Sky Full of Wings. A Sky Full of Wings is collection of twenty-five poems selected as a finalist in the 2020 New Women’s Voices Chapbook Competition. Chapbooks are short volumes of less than forty pages, which often take the form…
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Knyzka Corner Book Review: The Battle for Ukrainian – A Comparative Perspective
Read more: Knyzka Corner Book Review: The Battle for Ukrainian – A Comparative PerspectiveIn this edition of Knyzka Corner, we will be discussing The Battle for Ukrainian – A Comparative Perspective, edited by Michael S. Flier and Andrea Graziosi. The Battle for Ukrainian – A Comparative Perspective, published by the Ukrainian Research Institute at Harvard University, outlines the difficult history of the Ukrainian language. In June 2014, the…
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Knyzhka Corner Book Review: Ukraine’s Nuclear Disarmament – A History
Read more: Knyzhka Corner Book Review: Ukraine’s Nuclear Disarmament – A History In this edition of Knyzka Corner, we will be discussing Yuri Kostenko’s book Ukraine’s Nuclear Disarmament – A History. Ukraine’s Nuclear Disarmament – A History, published by the Ukrainian Research Institute at Harvard University, outlines the factors which led Ukraine to sign the Budapest Memorandum in 1994. This agreement denuclearized the country. It also…
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Ukrainian Jewish Heritage: Hannukah in Ukraine and around the world
Read more: Ukrainian Jewish Heritage: Hannukah in Ukraine and around the worldHanukkah is a joyous holiday, celebrated every year by Jews around the world with the lighting of candles 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. There is also a tradition to give Chanukeh gelt—coins, and…
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Knyzhka Corner Book Review: Wretched Land by Mila Komarnisky
Read more: Knyzhka Corner Book Review: Wretched Land by Mila KomarniskyWretched Land tells the epic story of Dmytro and Khrystina Verbitsky as they live through the horrors of early 20th century Ukraine. Their love for the land and their family of ten children keeps them together through wars, famine, invasions, and collectivization. Readers will experience, “An unforgettable journey into the heart and soul of a…
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Ukrainian Jewish Heritage: Part 4 —Currencies of Israel and Ukraine
Read more: Ukrainian Jewish Heritage: Part 4 —Currencies of Israel and UkraineWelcome to the final episode of our 4-part series on the currencies of Ukraine and Israel. In Episode 1, the focus was on the respective histories of the currencies of these two states. In Episodes 2 and 3, we focused on eight prominent Jews born in Ukraine who were depicted on Israel’s currency. In this…