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The Green Wave: From Book Fair To Book Festival
Odessites are well-known book lovers. So it is no surprise that for 21 years, the Green Wave has been taking place right here in...
Gapa Guzhva
Val Vinokur has just published "The Essential Fictions," a newly translated collection of the works of Odessan Jewish writer Isaac Babel. This story was...
Wrestling With Dark History: Soviet Holocaust Films And The New Ukraine
Despite the fact that almost half of all Jewish victims of the Nazi Holocaust were killed on the territory of the Soviet Union, their...
Photographer In Focus – Boris Bukhman
Boris Bukhman is a photographer, a member of both the National Society of Photo Artists of Ukraine and the World Club of Odessites. He...
Outcomes and Winners of “Docudays” 15th International Film Festival: War with a Female Face
March 30th was the last day of the 15th International Human Rights Documentary Film Festival in Kyiv. This year participants included 62 films from...
May 12-13, Kyiv. Klezmer in Ukraine!
Klezmer spring comes to Ukraine! Very soon Kiev will be transformed into the world capital of klezmer music. The long-awaited Kyiv Klezmer Fest starts...
15th Koktebel Jazz Festival
On August 27 in Chernomorsk, the 15th Koktebel Jazz Festival, which has long been positioned not so much as jazz festival, but as a...
A Short Biography Of Ukraine’s Hottest Musical Icon
Over the last year, ONUKA has shot to critical and popular success both at home and in Europe. But front-woman Nata Zhyzhchenko’s greatest accomplishment may...
Bel Amie
In this fantastical story, the author imagines himself meeting with Bel Kaufman a few years after her death in 2014 at the age of...
Fozzey: Books Stolen From Life
A profile of musician Alexander “Fozzey” Sidorenko, who has branched out to becoming a well known writer.
Of all Ukraine’s musicians, Fozzey is the only...