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 Book Review: In Broad Daylight
Read more: Ukrainian Jewish Heritage Book Review: In Broad DaylightIn this edition of Ukrainian-Jewish Heritage, we will be discussing In Broad Daylight – The Secret Procedures behind the Holocaust by Bullets by Father Patrick Desbois. In 2008, Father Patrick Desbois published The Holocaust by Bullets – A Priest’s Journey to Uncover the Truth Behind the Murder of 1.5 Million Jews. It described how Nazi…
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Book Review: A Journey Through the Ukrainian_Jewish Encounter: From Antiquity to 1914
Read more: Book Review: A Journey Through the Ukrainian_Jewish Encounter: From Antiquity to 1914In this edition of Ukrainian Jewish Heritage, we will be discussing A Journey through the Ukrainian-Jewish Encounter: From Antiquity to 1914, curated and written by Alti Rodal, the Co-Director of the Ukrainian-Jewish Encounter. A Journey through the Ukrainian-Jewish Encounter: From Antiquity to 1914 was originally a traveling exhibition shown in six venues in four Canadian…
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Ukrainian Jewish Heritage Book Review: The Holocaust by Bullets
Read more: Ukrainian Jewish Heritage Book Review: The Holocaust by BulletsIn this edition of Ukrainian Jewish Heritage, we will be discussing The Holocaust by Bullets – A Priest’s Journey to Uncover the Truth Behind the Murder of 1.5 Million Jews by Father Patrick Desbois. In 2004, Father Patrick Desbois began to research the story of the Jews, Roma and other victims murdered in Eastern Europe…
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Ukrainian Jewish Heritage: Passover 2019
Read more: Ukrainian Jewish Heritage: Passover 2019Passover commemorates the exodus of Jews from Egypt over 3000 years ago. The timeless and universal message of this holiday is that slaves can go free, and the future can be better than the present. Passover, or Pesach, as it is called in Hebrew, is truly a festival of freedom. Passover begins in the middle…
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Jews and Ukrainians: A Millennium of Co-Existence (Book Review: Ukrainian Jewish Heritage)
Read more: Jews and Ukrainians: A Millennium of Co-Existence (Book Review: Ukrainian Jewish Heritage)In this edition of Ukrainian Jewish Heritage, we will be discussing Jews and Ukrainians: A Millennium of Co-Existence by Paul Robert Magocsi and Yohanan Petrovsky-Shtern. Jews and Ukrainians: A Millennium of Co-Existence is a comprehensive historical account of the relationship between Jews and ethnic Ukrainians, both in Ukraine and the diaspora. It was written primarily…
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Ukrainian Jewish Heritage: The Jewish holiday Purim (2019)
Read more: Ukrainian Jewish Heritage: The Jewish holiday Purim (2019)Purim is a holiday Jews observe in memory of an ancient Jewish victory. The story of Purim is recounted in the Book of Esther in the Bible. It’s a story of treachery and warfare in ancient Israel, but it has eerie parallels with the bloody 20th century in Europe. About twenty five hundred years ago,…
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Ukrainian Jewish Heritage: The Pale of Settlement
Read more: Ukrainian Jewish Heritage: The Pale of SettlementMost Jews in the diaspora can trace their ancestry to the Pale of Settlement. But what exactly IS the Pale of Settlement? It’s a term that often comes up when reading about or researching the history of Jews in Eastern Europe. Obviously, it’s a territory where Jews lived, and were in fact confined to live…
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Ukrainian Jewish Heritage – Holocaust Museum in Fastiv
Read more: Ukrainian Jewish Heritage – Holocaust Museum in FastivIn this edition of Ukrainian Jewish Heritage, we’ll be speaking again with Julia Korsunsky, the executive director of RememberUs.org, a nonprofit organization based in Massachusetts. We were first introduced to RememberUs.org when we learned about their project of planting metasequoia trees at mass grave sites of Holocaust victims. These include her own great-grandparents and many…
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Knyzhka Corner Book Review: The Man with the Poison Gun
Read more: Knyzhka Corner Book Review: The Man with the Poison GunIn this edition of Knyzka Corner, we will be discussing Serhii Plokhy’s non-fiction thriller, The Man with the Poison Gun – A Cold War Spy Story. The Man with the Poison Gun, Serhii Plokhy’s first non-fiction thriller, focuses on the life of Bogdan Stashinsky, the assassin who killed Stepan Bandera and Lev Rebet. The very…