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Jazz Improv, Odessa-style
Yuri Kuznetsov, Odessa’s great Jazz man sadly passed away in May of 2016. The Odessa Review is commemorating Kuznetsov through the words of his friend Sergei...
Odessa Tales with Boris Khersonsky
During the first year that the ‘City Semibasement’ Club was first opened in Odessa, it was so well-attended that it was absolutely impossible to...
Son Of Saul wins Oscar: 'The Kindergarten Teacher Who Won Cannes'
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I6MJZnDV27U
The searing and remarkable Hungarian holocaust film 'Son of Saul’ won the Oscar for 'best foreign film' last night. The Odessa Review's chief editor...
Docudays Festival UA 2018
Read more of Ulyana Dovgan's film criticism here.
This year, Docudays UA, the most prominent Ukrainian festival of creative documentary film is set to begin...
Zvi Preigerzon: the Soviet Union’s secret Hebrew writer
The story of a Ukrainian-born writer who secretly wrote in the Hebrew language his entire life while working as a coal engineer.
By all accounts,...
March 29, The Winter’s Tale
"The Winter's Tale" Will be shown at cinema "Planeta Kino" (Tairova) and in "Planeta kino" (Kotovsky) on March 29.
Christopher Wheeldon, Artistic Associate of The...
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...
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...
OIFF Update: "Varta1, Lviv, Ukraine" (2015)
Many Ukrainian citizens have been wrangling with the definitions of such concepts as democracy, autonomy, and justice ever since the conflict with Russia was...
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...
