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Activists Fight To Save Ukraine’s Soviet-Era Mosaics
In the winter of 1918, Lenin wrote a letter to Soviet Education Commissar Anatoly Lunacharsky outlining his vision of a utopian socialist city. The...
A Short History Of Jewish Political Parties In Ukraine
Jewish political parties in Ukraine were partisan, ideological, fragmented, and ultimately crushed. But they left an indelible mark on Jewish history.
The notion of “political...
A Conversation With Artist Alexander Florensky: Creator Of The “Odessa Alphabet”
At the end of 2016, there were multiple mentions in the Ukrainian media that an artist originally from St. Petersburg and living in Georgia,...
OIFF Update: “The Nest of the Turtledove” (2016)
“The Nest of the Turtledove” is a feature by Ukrainian director Taras Tkachenko. The film won the ‘Work in Progress’ Award at the 2014...
The Pageantry Of Brighton Beach In Glorious Color
Ukraine born photographer Julia Gorodetskaya speaks about her love of Odessa and of the South Brooklyn, New York City neighborhood of Brighton Beach. Her...
GENNADY KOFMAN: Ukrainian documentaries compete with foreign films as equals
In March, Kyiv hosted the 15th Docudays UA International Human Rights Documentary Film Festival. This year, the festival moved to a new location, with...
How Odessa Brought Football to the Tsarist Empire
Ever since Tsarist times, Odessa has been famed as a capital of comedy, commerce, criminality and cosmopolitanism, but it is also the place where...
My Sheptytsky
One of the world’s most famous historians of the Holocaust (he himself is a survivor) and the author of “Together and Apart in Brzezany:...
The Escape
Translated from the Ukrainian by Reilly Costigan-Humes and Isaac Stackhouse Wheeler. “The Escape” was published in Andriy Lyubka’s 2016 book of short fiction “A...
Eduard Bagritsky’s “Smugglers”
This rendition of a classic modernist poem was translated by Boris Dralyuk, the Executive Editor of the Los Angeles Review of Books. Read our long...
