On Finding Babel: An Interview With David Novack
The American documentary film maker David Novack has been coming to Odessa for more than twenty years in connection with his interest in the...
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...
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...
My Sheptytsky
One of the world’s most famous historians of the Holocaust (he himself is a survivor) and the author of “Together and Apart in Brzezany:...
Do You Hear What I Hear: Holiday Music Traditions That Bring Communities Together
Cultural traditions, especially near-universal and well-established ones surrounding the winter holidays, offer an avalanche of stimuli for the senses — the scents and flavors...
75th Anniversary Of Babyn Yar Commemorations Held In Ukraine
The anniversary attracted elites from across Europe and around the world, with Ukraine's politicians recognizing the need to properly mark the massacre to break...
The Odessa Years of Mikhail Vrubel
Mikhail Vrubel was one of the great Russian artists of the 19th century. His association with Odessa is not often spoken about, but the...
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...
Twenty Years Of Bridge-Building
Since 1997, the intellectual journal Krytyka has projected an alternate future program for Ukraine: democracy, openness, internationalism. For twenty years, The journal has been...
Isaak Dunayevsky: The Red Mozart Of Soviet Cinema
Summer in Odessa! The white acacia blossoms, the beach season arrives, and live music can be heard on the streets and at the seaside...
