A look at Ukraine’s Jewish Heritage – sponsored by Ukrainian Jewish Encounter.
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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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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…
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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…