Ukrainian Jewish Heritage: Yevhen Aron Roytman

There is a classic expression that asserts “when cannons roar the muses fall silent.” In times of distress and upheaval, creativity and art may falter. However, there are always those artists who quietly and stubbornly continue their work no matter what the circumstances. The recent exhibition “Jewish Art in Ukraine: The Torah in the Paintings of Yevhen Roytman” offers an example. The show was held at the Museum of the History of Kiev, sponsored by the Kyiv city government and with the support of the Jewish community of the city. The Museum presented the Torah project as a series of paintings that illustrate renowned Biblical subjects. The artist and poet Roytman believes that humanity, and in particular Ukraine, is living through a complex historical period. There is a fundamental epochal change happening. Sharp conflicts of opinion erupt. The old ways of life are being challenged, ruined, and discarded. This powerful process affects the consciousness of people and fundamentally alters viewpoints. In order to take advantage of and sustain such changes, society needs to believe in truth, justice, and morality. For the Jewish people, the Torah is a source of these understandings. The sacred texts guide the Jewish people through the […]

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Nash Holos Vancouver 2016-0409

Ukrainian Jewish Heritage: Spotlight on artist Hryhorii Falkovych • News from Ukraine (courtesy Ukraine Today) •  Knyzhka Corner Book Review: Raven’s Way by Vasyl Shkliar (English translation by Stephen Komarnyckyj) • Ukrainian proverb of the Week • Great Ukrainian Music! Artists: •  OT Vinta • Лісапетний Батальон • Веселі Музики • Tommy buick • Unknown ATO Soldiers • DoVira • Ukrainian Prairie Band

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Knyzhka Corner Book Review: Red Stone & Broken Stone by Gabrielle Goldstone

In this edition of Knyzhka Corner, we look at two books for middle grade readers by Manitoba author Gabriele Goldstone. Red Stone tells the story of Stalin’s cruel destruction of the kulak way of life during the 1930’s, through the eyes of eleven-year old Katya Halter. In the companion volume, Broken Stone, Goldstone picks up Katya’s story as she returns from Siberia to find strangers living in her home. As Red Stone begins, Katya and her brother Albert are playing near the windmill on the family farm. She picks up a chunk of red granite which she carries with her for many years. It will become a symbol of her family’s prosperous past life when they lived in the village of Federofka about 35 kilometers northwest of Zhytomyr and an hour west of Kyiv in what is today Ukraine. Katya’s father is a successful farmer. These farmers were known as kulaks. However, Stalin has a plan to start collectivization, and his plans do not include the kulaks. In this chilling story of how quickly life can change, Katya and her family are forced to leave their home and travel to a labour camp in the Siberian Gulag. How will they […]

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Nash Holos Nanaimo 2016-0406 Hour 2

Latest news from Ukraine • Commentary: Canadians helping Ukrainian prosthetic specialists learn tricks of the trade (News and commentary courtesy Ukraine Today • Ukrainian proverb of the week • Great Ukrainian music by • Migrena • Boris Sevastyanov • Mickey & Bunny • Ukrainian Old Timers • Prairie Crocus • Homin Stepiv Nash Holos Ukrainian Roots Radio airs live in Nanaimo on Wednesdays at 11am on CHLY 101.7FM, broadcasting to the north and central Vancouver Island, Gulf Islands, Sunshine Coast, northwest Washington State and Greater Vancouver listening areas. Your host: Pawlina

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Nash Holos Nanaimo 2016-0406 Hour1

Ukrainian Food Flair recipe: Egg Drop Soup • Ukrainian Jewish Heritage: Babyn Yar • Great Ukrainian music by: Susidy • Cheremshyn • DoVira • LaVIvo • OT Vinta • Smerichka • Braty Hadiukiny • Sich • Loubistock • Ukrainian Prairie Band Nash Holos Ukrainian Roots Radio airs live in Nanaimo on Wednesdays from 11am-1pm PST on CHLY 101.7FM, broadcasting to the north and central Vancouver Island, Gulf Islands, Sunshine Coast, northwest Washington State and Greater Vancouver listening areas. Your host: Pawlina.

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Nash Holos Vancouver 2016-0402

News from Ukraine courtesy Ukraine Today • Ukrainian Jewish Heritage: Babi (Babyn) Yar • Knyzhka Corner Book Review: Red Stone & Broken Stone by Gabrielle Goldstone • Ukrainian proverb of the week • Great Ukrainian music by: Гурт Еней • Тімь Сонця • Джерела • Jamala • Zeellia • High Profile • Шабля • Chuchyl Orchestra • Romko Join me – Pawlina – for an hour of fun on Nash Holos Vancouver every Saturday at 6pm PST on AM1320 CHMB Vancouver. This podcast is the audio archive for Sat. April 1, 2016.

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Nash Holos Nanaimo 2016-0330 Hour 2

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 • Zeellia • Chuchyl Orchestra • Romko Nash Holos Ukrainian Roots Radio airs live in Nanaimo on Wednesdays from 11am-1pm PST on CHLY 101.7FM, broadcasting to the north and central Vancouver Island, Gulf Islands, Sunshine Coast, northwest Washington State and Greater Vancouver listening areas. Your host: Pawlina.    

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Nash Holos Nanaimo 2016-0330 Hour 1

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 • Vlad Zinkowsky • Mickey & Eugene Nash Holos Ukrainian Roots Radio airs live in Nanaimo on Wednesdays from 11am-1pm PST on CHLY 101.7FM, broadcasting to the north and central Vancouver Island, Gulf Islands, Sunshine Coast, northwest Washington State and Greater Vancouver listening areas. Your host: Pawlina.

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Ukrainian Jewish Heritage: Hryhorii Falkovych

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 summers hot, punctuated with cheerful sudden downpours of refreshing rain. And the fall was peaceful, generous with harvest and blazing yellow colors. And so recalls the prize-winning Ukrainian Jewish poet and public figure Hryhorii Falkovych. Falkovych remembers as a very young child returning to his native city of Kyiv. He was already a fourth generation Kyivite. Along with his mother he had been evacuated as an infant to Russia at the outbreak of the Second World War. The trip home was memorable for the boy. A locomotive with trailing black clouds. A crowded train chugging through endless steppe during a searing hot summer. Lunch breaks on faded grass. The aluminum cups filled with tea were too hot to hold. And there was no way to climb back onto the train by your self. It was too high! Falkovych and his mother returned to their pre-war […]

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