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First Odessa Jewish Film Festival Takes On Tough Subjects
On October 28th, the First Odessa Jewish Film Festival (OJFF) opened with the feature The Jews. Directed by Yvan Attal, a French actor-turned-director with...
Meir Dizengoff: The Odessan Who Built Tel Aviv
The legendary first mayor of Tel Aviv got his start in business in Odessa and France before becoming a major figure in the Zionist...
Architect Lev Weingort, Savior Of Poltava
Many Ukrainian cities are experiencing a construction boom today. New highrise buildings, residential complexes and entire microdistricts are changing their habitual appearance. And quite...
My Experiences Of The 3rd International Odessa Literary Festival
On September 28 and October 1, For the third year in a row, Odessa hosted numerous talented and well-known writers, poets and litterateurs who had...
80 Years Of The Odessa Philharmonic Orchestra
The Odessa Philharmonic Orchestra was founded in 1937, and belongs today to the most prominent musical ensembles in Ukraine.
During the Soviet era the orchestra...
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...
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...
“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...
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...
Inside Look At The Eventfull Days Of 2017 GOGOLFEST
The 10th anniversary multidisciplinary contemporary art festival GOGOLFEST 2017 Ark was taking place in Kiev in this September. The festival lasted until 17 September....
