Tribute to mothers and grandmothers on this week’s show: Victor’s Vignettes: Baba’s Sayings • Knyzhka Corner Book Review: A Promise Kept by Andy Semotiuk (A tribute to his mother) • Special commentary: Oksana Poberezhnyk shares the many Ukrainian words for mother and grandmother • Ukrainian Proverb of the Week • Great Ukrainian music on a Mother’s Day theme!
On this edition: Commemorating Chornobyl and celebrating Easter • Special BBC World Service feature on the 30th anniversary of the Chornobyl nuclear disaster • A look back at how shortwave radio “broke” the story of the disaster and forced the USSR to admit what happened in Chornobyl on April 26th, 1986 • Victor’s Vignettes features a personal account of what it was like to be kept in the dark in the days following the disaster • From the Nash Holos audio vault (2006): an inspiring Easter story about how faith triumphed over atheism during the soviet era • Ukrainian proverb of the week • Great Ukrainian music! Artists: Cherry Band • Vidubichi Choir • Marko Farion • Ludwig • Taras Petronenko • Yordana Dranchyk • Halyna Ileva • By Request Band
Latest News from Ukraine: Courtesy Ukraine Today • Knyzhka Corner Book Review: Dance of the Banished by Marsha Skrypuch • UA Today Commentary: Tactical medic speaks about his volunteering experience in Ukraine • Ukrainian Proverb of the Week • Great Ukrainian music by • Braty Hadiukiny • Lisapetniy Batallion • Dunai • Inna Ishchenko • Kozak System • DoVira • Anatoli Rudenko & Folklore Ensemble Kyiv • Sashko • Sofia Bilozor • Ukrainian Orchestra of Folk Instruments • Mickey & Eugene Join me – Pawlina – for an hour of fun on Nash Holos Vancouver every Saturday at 6pm PST on AM1320 CHMB Vancouver.
Ukrainian Jewish Heritage: Spotlight on artist Hryhorii Falkovych • News from Ukraine (courtesy Ukraine Today) • Knyzhka Corner Book Review: Raven’s Way by Vasyl Shkliar (English translation by Stephen Komarnyckyj) • Ukrainian proverb of the Week • Great Ukrainian Music! Artists: • OT Vinta • Лісапетний Батальон • Веселі Музики • Tommy buick • Unknown ATO Soldiers • DoVira • Ukrainian Prairie Band
News from Ukraine courtesy Ukraine Today • Ukrainian Jewish Heritage: Babi (Babyn) Yar • Knyzhka Corner Book Review: Red Stone & Broken Stone by Gabrielle Goldstone • Ukrainian proverb of the week • Great Ukrainian music by: Гурт Еней • Тімь Сонця • Джерела • Jamala • Zeellia • High Profile • Шабля • Chuchyl Orchestra • Romko Join me – Pawlina – for an hour of fun on Nash Holos Vancouver every Saturday at 6pm PST on AM1320 CHMB Vancouver. This podcast is the audio archive for Sat. April 1, 2016.
News from Ukraine • Ukrainian Jewish Heritage: Tribute to Ukrainian Jewish artist Yevhen Roytman • Ukrainian Food Flair: How to Prepare an Easter Basket (from the Nash Holos Audio Vault) • Ukrainian Proverb of the Week • Other items of interest • Great Ukrainian music — including Easter songs. Enjoy!
Ukrainian Jewish reaction to academic/author Timothy Snyder’s recent presentation in Geneva. Transcript: Добрий день! This is Renata Hanynets, at the Faina Petryakova Scientific Centre for Judaica and Jewish Arts, a branch of the Jewish Heritage Museum in Lviv, Ukraine. Recently, our executive assistant at the Jewish Heritage Museum, Volodymyr Valkov, travelled to Geneva to hear a world famous historian speak about the Holocaust. Volodymyr had hoped to enlist his cooperation in our work to deepen understanding of what happened in Eastern Europe, and particularly Ukraine, during the second world war. His hopes, unfortunately, were in vain. The speaker was Timothy Snyder, a Professor of History at Yale University and author of Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin. Snyder delivered this year’s Pierre du Bois Annual Lecture organized in partnership with the Graduate Institute in Geneva. It was titled: The Holocaust as a Global History. Here is Volodymyr to share his experience. I was quite excited at the prospect of attending Professor Snyder’s presentation and hearing his analysis of Hitler’s global view of the world, including Ukraine. He did shed new light on the dictator’s ruthlessness… but he fell short of shedding any on the world in which Hitler’s victims lived. According […]
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