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: Part 3—Currencies of Israel and Ukraine
Read more: Ukrainian Jewish Heritage: Part 3—Currencies of Israel and UkraineIn the last two episodes of Ukrainian Jewish Heritage, we learned that several Jews from Ukrainian territories were awarded one of Israel’s highest honors: their portraits depicted on the state’s banknotes and coins. And that Ukraine has returned the favour. In Episode 1, the focus was on the respective histories of the currencies of Israel…
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Knyzhka Corner Book Review: The Stories Were Not Told
Read more: Knyzhka Corner Book Review: The Stories Were Not ToldIn this edition of Knyzka Corner, we will be discussing Sandra Semchuk’s book on the internment of Ukrainians in Canada, The Stories Were Not Told – Canada’s First World War Internment Camps. From 1914 to 1920, thousands of individuals who had immigrated to Canada from the Austro-Hungarian Empire, Germany and the Ottoman Empire were unjustly…
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Ukrainian Jewish Heritage: Part 2—Currencies of Israel and Ukraine
Read more: Ukrainian Jewish Heritage: Part 2—Currencies of Israel and UkraineThe State of Israel was created and built by Jewish settlers who came mainly from Eastern Europe. Among them were quite a few natives of Ukraine, then ruled by the Russian & Austro-Hungarian Empires. Today’s episode of Ukrainian Jewish Heritage, Part 2 of our series on the currencies of Ukraine and Israel, features Jews from…
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Ukrainian Jewish Heritage: Hitler’s Basement
Read more: Ukrainian Jewish Heritage: Hitler’s BasementIn this edition of Ukrainian Jewish Heritage, we will be discussing Ron Vossler’s memoir Hitler’s Basement. Much has been written about Nazi concentration camps, but little has been written about the Nazi massacres of Jews on Ukrainian soil, and the peasants who witnessed and participated in these horrific events. In Hitler’s Basement, Ron Vossler reveals…
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Ukrainian Jewish Heritage: Currencies of Ukraine and Israel— Part 1 Historical parallels
Read more: Ukrainian Jewish Heritage: Currencies of Ukraine and Israel— Part 1 Historical parallelsBanknotes and coins are not only means of payment, they are also a symbol of sovereignty. This is a story about two currencies, two countries, and two peoples with a long and closely intertwined history. The hyrnvia, currency of Ukraine and the shekel, currency of Israel. This is the story of how both of these…
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Ukrainian Jewish Heritage – Interview: Paulina Zelitsky Part 2
Read more: Ukrainian Jewish Heritage – Interview: Paulina Zelitsky Part 2Last week we aired the first part of an interview with Paulina Zelitsky, who published The Sea is Only Knee Deep. In this two-volume memoir she tells the fascinating story of her life growing up in the Soviet Union, working in Cuba on a Soviet naval base in the late 1960s, and her famous and…
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Ukrainian Jewish Heritage interview—Paulina Zelitsky Part 1
Read more: Ukrainian Jewish Heritage interview—Paulina Zelitsky Part 1A couple of weeks ago on Ukrainian Jewish Heritage, we aired a book review of the memoirs of a Jewish woman from Odessa. An engineer, who worked on a nuclear submarine station in Cuba during the height of The Cold War, shortly before a daring defection from the Soviet Union to Canada. Her name is…
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Ukrainian Jewish Heritage: Book Review—The Sea Is Only Knee Deep
Read more: Ukrainian Jewish Heritage: Book Review—The Sea Is Only Knee DeepIn this edition of Ukrainian Jewish Heritage, Myra Junyk reviews The Sea is Only Knee Deep, a two-volume memoir of a nuclear scientist who defected from the Soviet Union to Canada at the height of the Cold War. The Sea is Only Knee Deep is the true story of Paulina Zelitsky’s defection to Canada from…
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Knyzhka Corner Book Review: Starving Ukraine – The Holodomor and Canada’s Response
Read more: Knyzhka Corner Book Review: Starving Ukraine – The Holodomor and Canada’s ResponseIn this edition of Knyzka Corner, we will be discussing Serge Cipko’s ground-breaking book Starving Ukraine – The Holodomor and Canada’s Response. Starving Ukraine is a richly detailed history of Canada’s response to the Holodomor, the great famine in Ukraine in 1932-1933. By examining Canadian newspapers, contemporary letters, and government documents, Cipko paints a…
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Ukrainian Jewish Heritage: Ukrainian film tells the story of a Crimean Tatar who rescued Jewish children during the Holocaust
Read more: Ukrainian Jewish Heritage: Ukrainian film tells the story of a Crimean Tatar who rescued Jewish children during the HolocaustThis episode of Ukrainian Jewish Heritage examines the extraordinary WWII story of Crimean Tatar teacher Saide Arifova, who protected 88 Jewish children from both the Nazi Gestapo and later the Soviet NKVD. Her real-life rescue, portrayed in the film “A Prayer of Strangers,” reveals the intertwined histories of the Holocaust and the 1944 Crimean Tatar…