Marianna Kijanowska. Babyn Yar: In Voices

The poetries by Marianna Kiyanovska are dedicated to the memory of Babyn Yar. Marianna Kiyanovska is a poet, translator, literary scholar, and a member of the National Writers’ Union of Ukraine and the Association of Ukrainian Writers. The book reproduces the sketches of the unfulfilled Babyn Yar memorial by Ada Rybachyk and Volodymyr Melnychenko, Zinovii Tolkachov’s painting Taleskoten from his Maidanek series of artworks, and photographs from the Babyn Yar series by Dmytro Peisakhov. (more…)

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Hryhorii Falkovych. Shalakhmones: Poems for Children

“Shalakhmones” is a large-format gift book of poetry for children by the well-known Ukrainian poet Hryhorii Falkovych. The poems are both funny and wise, and you will love to learn them by heart at once. Moreover, one can read not only poems but also drawings resembling the design of medieval manuscripts. It took the artist Pavlo (Pinkhas) Fishel more than five years of scrupulous work to illustrate the book. (more…)

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Презентація антології єврейської поезії в розмові Леоніда Фінберга з Валерією Богуславською на ukrlife.tv

В діалозі Леоніда Фінберга з Валерією Богуславською  в ефірі інтернет-каналу ukrlife.tv була представлена антологія єврейської поезії в українських перекладах. Ця унікальна книга містить переклади більш ніж 90 єврейських поетів, що писали їдишем, з усього світу.

Валерія Богуславська – упорядник книги та перекладач багатьох авторів цієї збірки.

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And Generation Are Passing by… Anthology of contemporary Israeli poetry

The anthology presents the world of 16 Israeli poets translated by the leading Ukrainian poets. The book is a poetic document of the generation bringing together poets born in Israel, and returned ones from all over the world. Among contemporary authors one can find in the Anthology the poets engaged in the Arab-Israeli conflict and those who declare themselves to be out of politics, those who came from the ultra-orthodox circles and secular Jews, townspeople and inhabitants of kibbutz …
The Anthology includes urban poetry, erotic poetry, war poems, prayers, poems-comments on the sacred texts… This diversity reflects the poetic polyphony of the Israeli reality.

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David Gofshtein. Oh my Whole Wide World… Selected poems

This book represents the fullest collection of translated works of the great Jewish poet David Gofshtein. The book is based upon two volume edition of selected works: issued in the original language in Tel Aviv (Israel, publishing house “Isroel – booh”), and “Favorites” by David Gofshtein issued in Ukrainian in Kiev (Ukrainskyi Pys’mennyk Publishing house). The widow of the poet Feiga Gofshtein was a compiler of both publications. All dedications and epigraphs that for obvious reasons could not be published in the Soviet era were restored in this edition.
Among translators of the poems one will find M. Rylsky, P. Tychyna, V. Sosiura, L. Kostenko, G. Kochur, M. Lucash, L. Pervomayskyi, N. Tyhyi, V. Boguslavska. (more…)