• Feature Interviews – with artists, authors, acti vists, and other interesting people
• Ukrainian Jewish Heritage –exploring Ukraine’s rich Jewish history
• Knyzhka Corner – Myra Junyk reviews books on Ukrainian themes in English
• Victor’s Vignettes – personal recollections of soviet and post soviet life by the late Victory Sergeyev of Mykolaiv, Ukraine
Knyzhka Corner Book Review: Red Stone and Broken Stone by Gabrielle Goldstone • Ukraine Today commentary: US Ambassador to Ukraine Geoffrey Pyatt on territorial integrity in the 21st century • Ukrainian Proverb of the Week • Great Ukrainian music by: High Profile • Theresa Sokyrka • Sophia Rotaru • Oleksiy Kerekesha • Shablia • Dzherela […]
Ukrainian Food Flair recipe: Horseradish-stuffed beef patties • Ukrainian Jewish Heritage: Tribute to Ukrainian Jewish painter Yevhen Roytman •Great Ukrainian music by: • Volyn Ukrainian Song & Dance Company • Oksana Bilozir • Aenaes • Тінь Сонце • Jamala • Unknown Ukrainian Soldiers • Taisia Povaliy • Kuban Cossack Choir • Cherry Band • DoVira
The Kyiv of his youth was very different from today’s busy capital of Ukraine. The city was greener, and quieter. Life was calmer. The city was infused with the mysteries of the past, and held more secrets. The climate was more bracing—with honest cold snaps and dry snowy winters. Kyiv springs were velvety and the
News from Ukraine • Ukrainian Jewish Heritage: Tribute to Ukrainian Jewish artist Yevhen Roytman • Ukrainian Food Flair: How to Prepare an Easter Basket (from the Nash Holos Audio Vault) • Ukrainian Proverb of the Week • Other items of interest • Great Ukrainian music — including Easter songs. Enjoy!
One of the old jokes during the Communist era in Eastern Europe was the quip that you could never predict history. Official interpretations of the past could change suddenly and radically. You had to be adept—and cynically clever—to keep up with changes in the party line. In the post-Soviet era, Ukraine has the challenges, and
Today, let us consider identity. Identity may be frozen, destroyed, or altered through major life changes such as exile, immigration, or assimilation. Identity is a journey, as a recent conference in Los Angeles has shown. The Jewish organization Limmud FSU, the FSU standing for Former Soviet Union, brought together several hundred people to discuss and
Courage and fear. The first quality mobilizes action. The second emotion can paralyze the brain, but not always the heart. Courage and Fear is also the title of a remarkable new book written by the Polish scholar and diplomat Ola Hnatiuk. Her book is a gripping account of both the Soviet and Nazi occupations of
The 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
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 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.
Hanukkah 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.
