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: Passover in Ukraine
Read more: Ukrainian Jewish Heritage: Passover in UkraineThe festival of Passover commemorates the Exodus of Jews from Egypt over three thousand years ago. The timeless and universal message of this holiday is that slaves can go free, and that the future can be better than the present. Passover, or Pessach as it is called in Yiddish, begins in the middle of the…
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Ukrainian Jewish Heritage: Zolochiv
Read more: Ukrainian Jewish Heritage: ZolochivZolochiv, a town located 60 kilometers east of Lviv, was at one time a thriving Polish-Jewish-Ukrainian town. Then, in just three years, its Jewish population perished in the Holocaust. The Jewish presence in Zolochiv dates back to 1565. For centuries, Zolochiv was home to numerous artisans, tradesmen and notable rabbis.They lived throughout the city and…
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Ukrainian Jewish Heritage – Purim
Read more: Ukrainian Jewish Heritage – PurimPurim is a holiday Jews observe in memory of an ancient victory recounted in the Book of Esther. This story had eerie parallels in Europe during the bloody 20th century. About twenty five hundred years ago, the Holy Temple in Jerusalem was destroyed by the Babylonian king Nebuchadnezzar. The Jewish people were banished from Israel…
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Ukrainian Jewish Heritage: Husiatyn
Read more: Ukrainian Jewish Heritage: HusiatynHusiatyn is a town in the Ternopil Oblast of Western Ukraine, located on the west bank of the Zbruch River. This river formed the old boundary between Austria-Hungary and the Russian Empire in the nineteenth century, and the boundary between the Republic of Poland and the Soviet Union during the inter-war period of the…
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Ukrainian Jewish Heritage: Jews on Maidan
Read more: Ukrainian Jewish Heritage: Jews on MaidanIn these difficult times for Ukraine, it is important to remember the good, to be tolerant and support each other. Because we all are fighting for truth, justice, democracy and a better future for our country. On January 22, 2014, Mikhail Livinskiy a member of the leadership of the united opposition of Ukraine, made a…
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Book Review: Sabotage by Karen Autio
Read more: Book Review: Sabotage by Karen AutioKaren Autio’s new book Sabotage describes the experiences of Ukrainian and German prisoners in the internment camps during World War I. It is the third book in Autio’s trilogy about Finnish immigrants to Canada. In 1915 war is raging in Europe, and in Canada, there are rumours of espionage and sabotage. Paranoia against foreigners is…
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Ukrainian Jewish Heritage – International Holocaust Remembrance Day
Read more: Ukrainian Jewish Heritage – International Holocaust Remembrance DayJanuary 27th marks the anniversary of the liberation of the Nazi German Concentration and Extermination Camp of Auschwitz-Birkenau in 1945. Fifty years later, in November of 2005, the United Nations General Assembly proclaimed this date International Day of Commemoration in Memory of the Victims of the Holocaust, or simply International Holocaust Remembrance Day. The Holocaust…
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Ukrainian Jewish Heritage – Message to the Leaders of the Maidan
Read more: Ukrainian Jewish Heritage – Message to the Leaders of the MaidanVitaly Nachmanovych is a historian and ethnopolitologist specializing in Jewish Ukrainian history. His accomplishments are numerous. Among other things he is: a leading researcher at the Museum of History in Kyiv, with a special focus on the atrocity of Babyn Yar, the author of numerous articles and the editor of numerous publications dealing with the…
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False accusations of anti-semitism in Ukraine
Read more: False accusations of anti-semitism in UkraineVolodymyr Valkov, of the Jewish Heritage Museum in Ukraine, discusses charges of anti-Semitism in response to a New Year’s skit on the Maidan in which Jewish persons were depicted in a derogatory manner. * Transcript: The pro-European protests in Ukraine that started on November 21 of last year have attracted international attention. The massive protests are seen…
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Ukrainian Jewish Heritage: Tu Bishvat
Read more: Ukrainian Jewish Heritage: Tu BishvatOn January 16th, 2014 Jews in Ukraine and around the world will observe Tu Bishvat …traditionally known as the new year of the trees. According to the tradition of the Hasidim, on Tu Bishvat the Almighty decides the fate of trees and their fruits in the upcoming year’s harvest. As on all Jewish holidays and…