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Steampunk Revolution Comes To Ukrainian Comic Books
The commemoration of the centenary of the events of 1917 has been taken up in very different ways by the various post-Soviet nations. The...
The Different Ways That Christmas Is Celebrated Around Europe
Christmas is considered to be the main holiday of the year in most Christian societies but it is celebrated in vastly different ways across...
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...
Odessa Film Festival Raises Jewish Cinema’s Profile In Ukraine
On October 28th, the First Odessa Jewish Film Festival (OJFF) premiered with the French film The Jews, directed by Yvan Attal and starring Charlotte...
“Myth” Offers A Nuanced Portrayal Of Singer Wassyl Slipak And The War In Ukraine
As a documentary, “Myth” could have easily descended into hero worship. It had all the prerequisites: a talented and extravagant protagonist, a patriotic theme,...
On “Jews And Ukrainians: A Millennium Of Co-Existence”
The newly published volume “Jews and Ukrainians: A Millennium of Co-Existence”, authored by the historians Paul Robert Magocsi and Yohanan Petrovsky-Shtern is a prodigious coffee...
Religion For The People
The writer Yulia Verba has recentlly published a very funny book of short stories “Spawn of the Moldavanka” which is set in the dilapidated...
Ukrainian-Jewish Musical Journeys: From The Pale To The Promised Lands
This essay is an adaptation of program notes prepared for two concerts highlighting Jewish music from the Pale of Settlement that the author helped...
Furturist Ukrainian Architecture of the Soviet Era
The Hotel “Salute”
— is the most original example of Soviet futuristic architecture to be found in Kyiv. It was built in 1982-84 and designed...
“The Odessa Review and Contemporary Ukrainian Journalism”
In September The Odessa Review’s editor-in-chief Vladislav Davidzon visited Lviv Ukrainian Catholic University and “YermilovCentre” in Kharkiv to give a presentation titled “The Odessa...
