Remembering The Bloodiest Days of Ukraine’s Revolution
Four years ago today, Ukrainian special forces fired on protesters gathered on Kyiv’s Maidan nezalezhnosti (Independence Square), wounding, maiming, and killing demonstrators against President...
Ukrainian And Jewish Political Prisoners In The Gulag: Toward Solidarity, Mutual Understanding And Cooperation
The penal institutions in which the Soviet Union imprisoned dissenters had as their purported aim not simply the act of isolating and punishing political...
60th Anniversary Of Elite Ukrainian School In Odessa
School No. 9 opened up in the very center of Odessa, on Gavannaya Street in 1957. Today, the school is known as Gymnasium No....
How The Soviet Union Suppressed The Holocaust To Fight “Nationalism”
The Soviet authorities didn’t want their own historical narrative to face competition. That meant obliterating memory, rebuilding historical narratives, and suppressing literature.
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A Dialogue With Historian Serhii Plokhii
Serhii Plokhii is one of the most prominent contemporary historians specializing in the history of Ukraine across the English speaking world. Plokhii is the...
A Symbolic Friendship: Taras Shevchenko And Ira Aldridge In Odessa and Ukraine
A newly staged play in New York City focusing on the unlikely friendship between Ukraine’s national poet Taras Shevchenko (1814-1861) and the African American...
Classical Music’s Pedagogue: Stolyarsky
Many recognize Odessa’s Stolyarsky School of Music as a truly special musical institution. It was in fact the first of many specialized music schools in...
From Conflict To Cooperation: Ukrainian-Jewish Relations’ Bumpy Path
For much of the history of Ukraine, it was difficult to speak of anything akin to Ukrainian-Jewish relations. Jewish assimilation into the broader Ukrainian...
Making Modernism: On Odessa’s Most Pristine Parisian, Vladimir Baranov-Rossine
The remarkable Odessa educated, French-Russian-Jewish artist Vladimir Baranov-Rossine was killed in the holocaust, but his work lives on. In recent decades he has become...
An Interview With Jerome Vacher, The Outgoing IMF Representative In Ukraine
The French IMF Resident Representative in Ukraine, Jerome Vacher, was appointed to his position in the spring of 2013, and is now leaving his...
