In Search Of Mykola Bazhan’s Legacy On The Eve Of Commemorations Of Babyn Yar
Mykola Platonovich Bazhan (1904-1983) was one of the greatest Ukrainian poets of the twentieth century. He cemented his literary reputation in the 1920’s as...
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...
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...
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...
How Odessa Brought Football to the Tsarist Empire
Ever since Tsarist times, Odessa has been famed as a capital of comedy, commerce, criminality and cosmopolitanism, but it is also the place where...
German writers on Odessa
Odessa was very far away, even for most of the Germans living in Russia. Traveling there was difficult, and many Europeans could never imagine...
How The Soviet Union Suppressed The Holocaust To Fight “Nationalism”
The Soviet authorities didn’t want their own historical narrative to face competition. That meant obliterating memory, rebuilding historical narratives, and suppressing literature.
This article was...
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...
Pericles Stavrov, Odessan Greek Poet
The poet Pericles Stavrov is known to lovers of literature as one of the great poets of the 20th century. This article is based...
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:...
