Browsing: New releases

“Contours of The City,” by Attyla Mohylny, translated by Michael Naydan. London: Glagoslav Publication, 2017. 140 pp. ISBN: 978-1-911414-57-5 (paperback), $26.50.

“Adventures in the Slavic Kitchen: A Book of Essays with Recipes,” by Igor Klekh. Translated from Russian by Slava I. Yastremski and Michael M. Naydan. London.: Glagoslav Publications, 2016. 177 pp. ISBN: 978-1-78437-996-4. $30, hardcover; $23, paperback; $10, Kindle.

WHIPPANY, N.J. – A new book featuring scholarly essays by Dr. Taras Hunczak, professor emeritus of history at Rutgers University, was presented here at the Ukrainian American Cultural Center of New Jersey on Sunday, March 24.

“What We Live For, What We Die For: Selected Poems,” by Serhiy Zhadan. Translated from the Ukrainian by Virlana Tkacz and Wanda Phipps. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2018. 160 pp. ISBN 978-03000-22336-1. $18.

“Ukrainian Bishop, American Church: Constantine Bohachevsky and The Ukrainian Catholic Church,” by Martha Bohachevsky-Chomiak. Washington: Catholic University of America Press, 2018. 535 pp. ISBN: 9780813231594. $75.

“Poetry” by Volodymyr A. Bohdan, compiled by Tamara N. Miller, self-published, 2017. 37 pp. $11. 

One summer afternoon in northern England in 1946, when Ann Colley was a child, she met a man from Czechoslovakia named Dr. Novak. This encounter launched her lifelong fascination with Central and Eastern Europe, one that resulted in her spending two years, in 1995 and 2000, teaching at universities in Poland and Ukraine. 

The title of this memoir by Helen Woskob is self-explanatory – the book recounts her life history, starting with her childhood in a rural Ukrainian village, her family’s harrowing escape to the West, their stay in Germany’s displaced person (DP) camps, and her immigration to and life in America, where the Woskob family ultimately prospered in State College, Pa. 

“Liturgy No. 1 (Ukrainian), The Liturgy of St. John Chrysostom” and “Liturgy No. 2 (Ukrainian), The Liturgy of St. John Chrysostom,” by Roman Hurko. New York: CARO Productions, 2018. 74 pp. and 68 pp., respectively. $15 each.

WARREN, Mich. – A strong sense of nostalgia and warm camaraderie reigned at the official book launch of “Dibrova Diary,”…...

Eighty-five years after it was perpetuated by the Stalin regime, how many non-Ukrainians are aware of the Holodomor Famine Genocide of 1932-1933? Why are the horrors of the Nazis taught extensively in our school systems, yet the genocidal policies of Communist regimes are virtually ignored? Why does the hammer and sickle not elicit the same response as the swastika?  

The following is a presentation by Prof. Iryna Zakharchuk, who spoke during a public seminar focused exclusively on the book “Jews and Ukrainians: A Millennium of Co-Existence” (2016), by Paul Robert Magocsi and Yohanan Petrovsky-Shtern, that was held at Rivne State University of the Humanities on June 8. The book was commissioned by the Ukrainian Jewish Encounter and distributed by the University of Toronto Press for the Chair of Ukrainian Studies at the University of Toronto. Prof. Zakharchuk is associate professor (docent) in Ukrainian literature at Rivne State University of the Humanities.