Tag: The Ukrainian-Jewish past

NOVANEWS Newly digitized recordings offer an unprecedented glimpse of the Ukrainian-Jewish past By Jake Marmer IN THE VERNADSKY LIBRARYCulture News Newly digitized recordings offer an unprecedented glimpse of the Ukrainian-Jewish past Historical narratives are built around artifacts—preserved and frail relics from past epochs. Mythology erupts in the absence of such relics, and it is the sort of absence that doesn’t let one alone. Celebrating its first centennial this year, the Jewish Archive at the Vernadsky Library in Kiev is, perhaps, one of the oddest crossroads of history and mythology: It is filled with incredible artifacts of the Eastern European Jewish past, and yet, it hangs suspended within a cognitive void, in the absence of the community that engendered these artifact...