The book is a documentary account of the careers and art of Jewish cinematographers – directors, actors, film producers, and distributors – in Ukraine between 1910 and 1945. It contains short biographical sketches based on various film history publications, as well as the memoirs of filmmakers’ colleagues and relatives, press reviews of the time, censorship documents, and screenplays and librettos for the Jewish movies, most of which are lost forever. The text is supplemented by unique photo documents: portraits, film shots, working moments from film sets, and movie advertisements. Continue reading
This book represents dialogues of iconic figures of the century turn – the French philosopher and politician André Glucksmann, and a well-known Russian public figure, human rights activist Ielena Bonner. The dialogue topics are: human rights, overcoming of the communism effects, international terrorism, xenophobia and anti-Semitism in the world today. The texts will be interesting for anyone who feels oneself responsible for human life and fates in the XXI century. Continue reading
This book is searching for answers to the most important questions of life experience with help of two great European thinkers. The unusual feature of this dialogue lies in the fact that the dialogue is being carried out by representatives of two different worlds: Adam Michnik – a secular politician, dissident intellectual, chief editor of the largest Polish daily Gazeta Wyborcza; and a well-known Polish philosopher and writer Father Josef Tishner, who is a Roman Catholic priest and professor of the Pontifical Academy, – all this being moderated by their fellow journalist, a brilliant interviewer Jacek Żakowski. Continue reading
У книзі зібрані тексти, які, на думку видавців, сприятимуть осмисленню людської солідарності, толерантності та порозуміння. Розрахована на широкий загал читачів, які шукають відповіді на непрості виклики часу.
Обрії порозуміння. / Упорядн. А. Ленчовська. – Видання друге. К.: Дух і Літера, 2009. – 192 с. ISBN 978-966-378-103-7
The section “Poetry” includes poems of Grigorii Falkovich, Boris Khersonsky, Ilona Taikh, and Alex Zarahovych.
In the “Prose”, the reader will find fragments from Inna Lesovaia’s novel Amber Room, libretto and songs from musical Mottle by Gelii Aronov, stories by Yosl Birstein (translated from Yiddish), and by Amos Oz (translated from Hebrew).
The section “Criticism and Publicism” presents a research work by Johanan Petrovsky-Shtern on Jewish-Ukrainian identity of Gryts Kernerenko, Hanna Arendt’s work on the banality of evil, Joanna Lisek’s work on the poet and feminist Hanna Levin, and Gennady Estraikh’s work on Soviet Yiddish in 1920s. In the interview with Tomasz Lec by Elżbieta Ficowska, the latest monument to the uprising in the Warsaw ghetto is described. Continue reading
