60th Anniversary Of Elite Ukrainian School In Odessa
School No. 9 opened up in the very center of Odessa, on Gavannaya Street in 1957. Today, the school is known as Gymnasium No....
An Interview With Jerome Vacher, The Outgoing IMF Representative In Ukraine
The French IMF Resident Representative in Ukraine, Jerome Vacher, was appointed to his position in the spring of 2013, and is now leaving his...
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...
Remembering Babyn Yar: A 1966 Speech And 50 Years Later
The official 75th anniversary commemorations of the Nazi massacres that took place at the Babyn Yar ravine in Kyiv will take place in the...
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...
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...
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...
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...
KVN and Odessa: Between Humor and Politics
KVN (Club of the Cheerful and Resourceful) is both a game and a TV show, created for Soviet TV in the middle of the...
“Babyn Yar: History And Memory”: A Book About More Than The Past
The book “Babyn Yar: History and Memory” appeared just before the 75th anniversary of the tragedy that took place in Babyn Yar during the...
