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Posts tagged as “Ukraine”

Legends of Carpathians (2018)

Director: Serg Skobun. As Carpathian legend has it, Oleksa Dovbush was a heroic outlaw with excellent fighting skills and a gift to predict the future. He was left an orphan as a small boy after a local lord murdered Oleksa’s mother. After spending his childhood in exile in the mountains, he returned as a grown man to avenge his mother’s…

In Broad Daylight: The Secret Procedures behind the Holocaust by Bullets

In The Holocaust by Bullets, Father Patrick Desbois documented for the first time the murder of 1.5 million Jews in Ukraine during World War II, based on wartime documents, interviews with locals, and the application of modern forensic practices on long-hidden gravesites. Nearly a decade of further work later, Father Desbois, Founder and President of Yahad-In Unum, has assembled in his…

Film Screening & Discussion: The Living Fire

Please join the Ukrainian Film Club at Columbia University for a screening of the documentary film The Living Fire (2014) by Ostap Kostiuk. Ukrainian with English subtitles. Professor Yuri Shevchuk will introduce the film and moderate the discussion. This stunningly beautiful and poetic film chronicles three generations of Ukrainian Carpathian shepherds who struggle to keep their ancient trade alive in the face…

MUR and the Revival of Ukrainian Literary Life in the DP Camps in Germany

Tuesday, April 3, 2018 12:00pm Marshall D. Shulman Seminar Room (1219 International Affairs Building, 420 W 118th St) Please join the Ukrainian Studies Program at the Harriman Institute, Columbia University for a presentation by Professor Lidia Stefanowska (University of Warsaw). Within the American-occupied zone in Germany in 1945-1948, Ukrainian Displaced Persons (DPs) managed to create a substitute for cultural and social structures in…