tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-218476062024-03-12T20:05:40.847-07:00Nash HolosA weekly variety radio show and podcast showcasing the best in Ukrainian culture, history, folklore and music. Broadcasting from the west coast of Canada in English and Ukrainian.Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger1076125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21847606.post-23788909589429049632019-12-03T01:04:00.000-08:002019-12-03T15:50:11.546-08:00Giving Tuesday - Worthy Ukrainian (and other) causes to support<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">After the excitement of Black Friday and Cyber Monday subsides, along comes Giving Tuesday. Also known as the Global Day of Giving, or in Ukrainian Щедрий вівторок, Giving Tuesday encourages donations of money and/or time in support of charities and not-for-profit organizations.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">But please don't fall victim to fakers. There are many scam “charities” eager to take your money. So do your due diligence, please.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">If you are short on time to do your own due diligence, but would like to participate in Giving Tuesday to help out a worthy cause or two, here are some that Nash Holos recommends supporting.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><a href="https://ukrainewaramps.ca/donate/" target="_blank">Ukraine War Amps</a> </span></h3>
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">The sole purpose of Ukraine War Amps is to assist Ukrainian soldiers and patriots that have been maimed or injured in the ongoing armed conflict in Ukraine. 100% of donations are sent to soldiers and their families. UWA Board members cover the operating cost</span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">s. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Volunteers on the ground within Ukraine have worked tirelessly to ensure the donations from over seventeen countries are delivered directly to the soldiers and families in need. Ukraine War Amps relies exclusively on the support of local and international volunteers to provide financial assistance to injured soldiers and families in Eastern Ukraine. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">For many Ukrainian veterans, accessibility to modern medical treatment and rehabilitation is beyond their financial means. Unfortunately, many of the Ukrainian soldiers lack the level treatment we receive in countries like Canada and never obtain adequate care for their injuries. Joined by hundreds of friends from all over the world the Ukraine War Amps community helps alleviate the burden placed on both soldiers and their families by providing a means of donating a monthly stipend, so that they can heal and live to the best of their abilities.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><a href="https://hopeww.org.ua/en/donate" target="_blank">Hope Worldwide Ukraine </a></span></h3>
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">HOPE worldwide invites you to join in and partner with them to provide humanitarian aid and psychological assistance to children who received war trauma as result of military actions in Eastern Ukraine. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">The needs for psychological assistance of those who witnessed and survived the events of war are of utmost importance. Particularly, a focus has to be made on children, traumatized by war, since their experiences and skills to deal with stress, depression and panic will directly influence their chances for fulfilling lives.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><a href="https://hart.ca/donate" target="_blank">HART – Humanitarian Aid Response Team</a></span></h3>
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">HART is dedicated to alleviating poverty and injustice in Eastern Europe by working in partnership with local Christian churches - giving them the tools to build a better world for themselves, their communities and their countries. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Their goal for Eastern Europe: To empower the Nationals in Eastern Europe to rise up and respond to the spiritual, physical and emotional needs of their own communities. </span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Their goal for North America: To inspire and provide opportunities for people in North America to get involved and truly make a difference in this world. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Hart serves primarily in Ukraine and Moldova, and also in neighbouring Eastern European countries.</span><br />
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<a href="http://joysmithfoundation.com/p/donate" style="font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif;" target="_blank">Joy Smith Foundation</a><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"> </span></h3>
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">The Joy Smith Foundation works to ensure that every Canadian man, woman and child is safe from manipulation, force, or abuse of power designed to lure and exploit them into the sex trade or forced labour. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">The Foundation develops human trafficking educational programs and facilitates their implementation in Canadian schools. They provide training and educational materials to teachers, parents and volunteers to help them raise awareness of human trafficking in their communities. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Canadian families are now being equipped with the knowledge they need to protect their children from predators, and Canadian youth are now recognizing the signs of being groomed by traffickers. </span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Canadians are surprised when they learn how prevalent human trafficking is here in Canada, and traffickers are empowered by this public apathy.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.chly.ca/donate" target="_blank">CHLY 101.7fm </a></span></h3>
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">CHLY is Nanaimo’s community/campus radio station. A volunteer-driven and non-profit radio station that broadcasts Nash Holos Ukrainian Roots Radio and other unique, independent, local programming. Make a one-time donation or get more involved with the station by becoming a sustaining donor.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><a href="https://shevchenkofoundation.com/make-a-donation/" target="_blank">Shevchenko Foundation</a> </span></h3>
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">The Ukrainian Canadian Foundation of Taras Shevchenko promotes Ukrainian Canadian Arts and History, and supports the Ukrainian Canadian Community. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">This national, chartered philanthropic institution strives to be a premier not-for-profit foundation inspiring community development in a Canada that acknowledges Ukrainian Canadians as nation-builders and a fundamental component of Canadian society. </span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">The Shevchenko Foundation respects the past, celebrates the present and promotes the future of the Ukrainian community in through inclusiveness, integrity, sustainability, spirit, excellence and innovation.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Ukrainian Churches</span></h3>
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">For centuries the Church was the bedrock of Ukrainian social activity as well as spiritual guidance and growth. In times past, churches often were funded by wealthy benefactors.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Today, like most charitable organizations, they rely on the generosity of their parishioners and outside supporters. Donations augment parishioner contributions as well as fundraising events such as perogy suppers and sales, bazaars, and zabava dinner dances, and ensure their continuity into the future. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><b><a href="https://stmichaelnanaimo.ca/contact/" target="_blank">St. Michael’s Ukrainian Catholic Parish, Nanaimo</a> </b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><a href="http://orthodoxcanada.ca/Parksville_BC_Saint_Mary_Protectress_Ukrainian_Orthodox_Church_1954" target="_blank">St. Mary’s Ukrainian Orthodox Parish, Parksville</a> </span></b><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.stmarysbc.com/" target="_blank">St. Mary’s Ukrainian Catholic Parish, Vancouver</a> </span></b><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><a href="https://uocvancouver.com/" target="_blank">Holy Trinity Ukrainian Orthodox Parish</a> </span></b><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><b><a href="https://www.svyatapokrova.ca/" target="_blank">St. Mary’s Ukrainian Orthodox Parish, Montrea</a>l </b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><a href="https://stmichaelsparish.wordpress.com/" target="_blank">St. Michael's Ukrainian Catholic Parish, Winnipeg</a></span></b><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><a href="https://cnuf.ca/memberships/" target="_blank">Canada’s National Ukrainian Festival</a></span></h3>
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">B</span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">ecome a member and/or a sponsor to ensure Canada's National Ukrainian Festival in Dauphin continues for another 53+ years of providing amazing Ukrainian entertainment, engaging activities for children, and promoting Ukrainian culture for future generations!</span><br />
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<a href="https://www.facebook.com/VesnaDancersNanaimo/" style="font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif;" target="_blank">Ukrainian Canadian Cultural Society of Nanaimo</a><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"> </span></h3>
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">This registered non-profit Society was incorporated under the Societies Act in 1986. </span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">The Society was established to preserve the Ukrainian culture through dance, food, music, language and traditions which would be remembered, shared and passed on to future generations. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Their services include assistance and support for immigrants or those of Ukrainian descent new to the Nanaimo area, bazaars and Ukrainian food sales, Traditional dance classes through Vesna Ukrainian Dancers of Nanaimo, preservation of Ukrainian Christmas and Easter traditions, educational bursaries, language classes, replication of authentic costumes, pysanky (Easter Egg) workshops, and more. Membership is encouraged, donations gratefully accepted.</span><br />
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<a href="https://www.ukrainianfestival.com/" style="font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif;" target="_blank">Toronto Ukrainian Festival</a><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"> </span></h3>
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">In 1995, Toronto was twinned with Kyiv, the capital of Ukraine, and to mark this occasion, the Bloor West Village Toronto Ukrainian Festival was established. </span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Originally known as the Bloor West Village Ukrainian Festival, it has since established itself as one of the premier Ukrainian festivals in North America, attracting audiences of 500,000+ from across Canada, the US and abroad. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"> Support one of North America’s premier cultural festivals, by volunteering or becoming a sponsor. Call 416-410-9965 or visit their <a href="https://www.ukrainianfestival.com/" target="_blank">website</a>.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><a href="https://felshtin.org/donate/" target="_blank">Felshtin Society</a></span></h3>
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Felshtin was a small, rural Ukrainian town that contained a Jewish community, or shtetl. Felshtin was located 78 miles north-northeast of Chernivtsy and 186 miles west-southwest of Kyiv, famous for its wooden synagogue.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">During a brutal pogrom on February 18, 1919, an estimated 600 Jewish Felshtiners were massacred—about a third of the total Jewish population. </span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">On Yom Kippur, 1941, Nazis exterminated most of Felshtin’s surviving Jewish population. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Today the town is known as Hvardiyske. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Felshtiners who came to the United States established aNew York-based benevolent Society in 1905 to provide relief to survivors of the 1919 pogrom. The society also created and published a Felshtin yizkor (memorial) book in 1937, sponsored social events, a memorial in Israel, and maintained the Felshtin section of a Staten Island cemetery.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">In 2019, the Society marked the centennial of the pogrom with a world-wide candle-lighting as well as a commemorative program in New York. Donations welcome to sustain research and the continuity of this enduring legacy of remembrance.</span><br />
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<a href="http://rememberus.org/what/" style="font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif;" target="_blank">RememberUs.org </a></h3>
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">U.S. based non-profit that organizes commemoration events and plants metasequoia commemoration trees at Holocaust killing sites throughout Ukraine. </span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">They also create local history museums and exhibitions in schools, and</span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">organize educational field trips</span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"> to encourage students to take an interest in their local history and pass knowledge onto their peers.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">All the knowledge gathered there is brought back to the United States, where they hold educational gatherings at schools, universities, nursing homes, community centers, and summer camps.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.ivanfranko.ca/" target="_blank">Ivan Franko Ukrainian Community Socie<span id="goog_672258290"></span><span id="goog_672258291"></span>ty</a></span></h3>
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">The Ukrainian Community Society of Ivan Franko in Richmond, BC is dedicated to promoting Ukrainian culture, values and heritage and sharing these with other communities.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">The society holds monthly perogy suppers and weekly food sales, fundraising events such as Malanka (Ukrainian New Year), hosts cultural events, and cultural outreach. </span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Membership is extremely reasonable, and members enjoy many benefits including access to an excellent lending library. </span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Join, donate and/or volunteer.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.lubovfoundation.ca/subnav.cfm?cID=35" target="_blank">Lubov Foundation</a> </span></h3>
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Winnipeg-based non-profit run by the Sisters Servants of Mary Immaculate. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Projects include The Home of Hope, a safe house for teenage girls whose sole purpose is protecting teenage girls from human traffickers who prey on girls who are pushed out of orphanages at age 16 with nowhere to go. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">The Home provides girls with life skills to equip them to live independently, and provides for their basic needs such as food, clothing, medical supplies, health and emotional needs, and tuition for their education.</span><br />
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<a href="https://rohatynjewishheritage.org/en/support/how-to-help/" style="font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif;" target="_blank">Jewish Rohatyn Heritage</a><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"> </span></h3>
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Rohatyn Jewish Heritage (RJH) develops and manages heritage preservation projects aimed at reconnecting the 400-year history of Rohatyn’s now-lost Jewish community with the people and places of the modern Ukrainian city. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">A major ongoing project is headstone recovery and cemetery restoration. Nearly all of the headstones disappeared from the cemeteries during and after World War II, due to the “harvesting” of Jewish headstones for building materials by German occupiers during WWII, and the erasure of Jewish and Christian cemeteries by Soviet authorities after the war.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Rohatyn has a rare opportunity for ongoing recovery of Jewish headstones discovered under streets and walkways, in old building foundations, along the riverside, beneath private gardens, and elsewhere. S</span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">ince the beginning of the project, m</span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">ore than five hundred headstones and fragments have been recovered and returned to the Jewish cemeteries.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><a href="https://vimms.ca/" target="_blank">Vancouver Island Military Museum</a> </span></h3>
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">For more than a quarter century, the museum has assembled a truly impressive collection of military memorabilia and artifacts from the War of 1812 right through to Canada's involvement in Afghanistan. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Examine life on the home front and the important work of the Red Cross, St John's Ambulance, the Salvation Army, RCMP and the critical role played by the Merchant Navy in war time. </span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Follow the evolution of Women in the Armed Forces, from Nursing Sisters during the Boer War to present day operations in all branches of our Armed Forces. </span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">The museum is located in downtown Nanaimo's dynamic waterfront. Donations welcome and volunteers especially needed.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><a href="https://www.rapereliefshelter.bc.ca/help/donate/donate" target="_blank">Vancouver Rape Relief and Women’s Shelter </a></span></h3>
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">The Vancouver Rape Relief and Women’s Shelter is the longest standing rape crisis centre in Canada. It offers support to women who have experienced any form of male violence including rape, wife battering, incest, prostitution and sexual harassment.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Donations from the public are crucial as rape crisis centres in BC receive no operational funding from any level of government. The funds they do receive to operate their transition house from the Province of BC do not cover all of the costs of running the shelter. They rely greatly on charitable donations to assist women and their children get to safety and to carry out our equality seeking prevention initiatives.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><a href="https://ucc.ca/donate/donate-now/" target="_blank">Ukrainian Canadian Congress, BC Provincial Council</a><span style="white-space: pre;"> </span></span></h3>
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">The Ukrainian Canadian Congress (est 1940) is a non-profit organization which represents and speaks for Canadians of Ukrainian ancestry. It consists of provincial and local councils which represent cultural, educational, and religious groups in their respective areas. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">The British Columbia Provincial Council (UCC-BC) consists of four local branches – Vancouver, Victoria, Kelowna and Vernon. Each local council in turn consists of member organizations such as cultural and educational societies, Ukrainian schools, performing and visual arts groups, and others.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><a href="https://spca.bc.ca/donations/make-a-donation/" target="_blank">SPCA</a> </span></h3>
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">The British Columbia Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (BC SPCA) has been operating on behalf of the province’s most vulnerable animals for more than 120 years. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">The BC SPCA is now one of the largest animal welfare organizations of its kind in North America, providing a wide range of services including the enforcement of animal cruelty laws through investigations into cases of animal cruelty and neglect; sheltering and adoption of homeless, surrendered and abandoned animals; low-cost spay/neuter programs; youth programs, advocacy on animal-related issues including higher welfare standards for farm animals; wildlife rescue and rehabilitation and more. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">If you are not in BC, please support your local SPCA.</span><br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21847606.post-6314617307210978872019-04-19T14:47:00.000-07:002019-04-19T14:48:56.151-07:00Nash Holos featured tunes for Passover 2019 This year Passover happens from sundown Friday April 19, 2019 until sundown on Saturday April 27th.<br />
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On Ukrainian Jewish Heritage, Nash Holos shares the details about the ancient traditions and rituals of Passover, as well as a litany of the difficulties Jews faced in Soviet times of religious repression to observe such important holidays as Passover.<br />
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Matzo is central to Passover, since it is unleaved bread. During Passover, Jews area forbidden to eat anything containing leaven.<br />
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Today Jews living in Ukraine and other countries of the former Soviet Union are able to freely celebrate Passover and matzo is not nearly so difficult to come by. Which is not to say that makes the culinary choices for Jews during Passover easy by any means.<br />
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In selecting topical tunes for this week's edition of Nash Holos, I came across several delightful videos on YouTube with great audio tracks that I could share with listeners.<br />
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They include two tunes which I thought were perfect to follow the Ukrainian Jewish Heritage feature on Passover.<br />
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The first is a hilarious parody of the Irving Berlin classic "Cheek to Cheek." It is sung by Adam B. Shapiro with much different and (needless to say) much funnier lyrics!<br />
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The second is a find that was astonishing as it was delightful. It is a video recording of a live performance somewhere in Ukraine (presumably) of a man and some children singing a bilingual version of the Passover hymn Let My People Go, also known as Go Down Moses.<br />
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Here there are. Enjoy!
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<b style="font-size: x-large;">Веселих Свят! Христос Раждаєтсья!</b></div>
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Best wishes to Nash Holos listeners for a happy holiday season.<br />
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For those celebrating according to the Gregorian calendar, Merry Christmas!<br />
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For those celebrating on the Julian calendar, hang in there, your time will be here soon!<br />
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Ukrainian Christmas programming for the 2018-2019 Christmas season is underway.<br />
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Tune in for great Ukrainian Christmas and New Years carols, Vinchuvannya (Greetings), recipes, and more!<br />
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There's a Christmas gift for Nash Holos listeners and supporters at our Patreon site—a printable 2019 at-a-glance calendar. Free to download.<br />
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May your Christmas be merry & bright.<br />
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З Різдвом Христовим!<br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21847606.post-25284073535231448162018-12-11T10:53:00.001-08:002018-12-11T10:58:01.106-08:00Baby It's Cold Outside not banned on Nash Holos<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">With <a href="https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2018/12/05/baby-its-cold-outside-banned-us-canada/" target="_blank">the recent ban</a> by several radio stations and networks of the holiday classic Baby It's Cold Outside, it's clear that political correctness has gotten out of hand. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">And as with most things that get out of hand, this one is now backfiring. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Social media sites have been flooded with caustic comments (justifiably) ridiculing this ludicrous capitulation to idiocy. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">It all <a href="https://www.usatoday.com/story/life/music/2018/11/30/baby-its-cold-outside-cut-cleveland-radio-station-after-metoo/2160122002/" target="_blank">started with a radio station in Cleveland</a> that claimed, </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">earnestly if </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">anachronistically, </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">that the song promotes date rape. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Then, everyone jumped on the bandwagon.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">By "everyone" I mean those who decide what gets played on the air, i.e., program directors and/or management at radio stations and at the networks. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">That is actually the crux of the matter. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">It's not bad enough that the geniuses behind the decision to ban the song are hiding behind the #MeToo movement. Now that there is a </span><a href="https://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/local/Listeners-Vote-to-Reinstate-Christmas-Classic-Baby-Its-Cold-Outside-Back-on-KOIT-Radios-Holiday-Playlist-502412501.html" target="_blank">growing backlash</a>, they're doubling down on this lame excuse in order to justify their hasty, knee-jerk decision. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">But, to no avail.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Thinking people reject the claim that the reason for the ban is that the lyrics promote violence against women. How disingenuous and hypocritical! Why no ban on the violent, misogynistic lyrics </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">in most rap</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> "music" </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">(my nephew's being a rare exception) which is ubiquitous </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">on the airwaves nowadays?</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> (Don't even get me started on the profanity which, thanks to the pop culture industry, </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">has almost completely displaced thoughtful, respectful discourse, in public and private.) </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">So, no. There is nothing offensive about the lyrics in Baby It's Cold Outside. Especially since they were written in 1944. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">As far as I'm concerned, this banning nonsense is mostly the <a href="https://variety.com/2018/music/news/baby-its-cold-outside-song-war-1203080834/" target="_blank">fault of lazy, unimaginative & wimpy decision-makers</a> at radio stations and media networks. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">As in one of my favourite Christmas movies, it's all about "<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=je2zFITQX68" target="_blank">make a buck, make a buck</a>." Do the peabrains behind the decision to ban this (or any) song figure that it will help boost their revenues? Well, who knows, maybe it will. Broadcasting is an </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">industry in flux right now, and stranger things are happening. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">So far Baby It's Cold Outside hasn't been banned on YouTube, but if it ever gets to that, hopefully it will take a long time for them to find this delightful Ukrainian version, which recently aired (and will again) on Nash Holos. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The controversy over the banning of </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Baby It's Cold Outside </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">still rages on, even in <a href="https://www.reddeeradvocate.com/news/debate-over-christmas-song-baby-its-cold-outside-continues-in-red-deer/" target="_blank">places like Red Deer</a>. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">So to be fair and balanced to both sides, here is </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">an updated version which emphasizes consent.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Enjoy! </span><br />
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<iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/CJB9GP5gyAw" width="560"></iframe>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21847606.post-1255033912052168182018-12-07T22:09:00.002-08:002018-12-07T22:09:22.720-08:00Remembering legendary Ukrainian Canadian broadcaster Roman Brytan <span style="color: #4a4a4a; font-family: "source sans pro" , "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 17.6px;">Roman Andrew Brytan, born in Edmonton, AB, on December 4, 1959, passed away on November 26, 2018, at the age of 58 years. </span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #4a4a4a; font-family: "source sans pro" , "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 17.6px;">He will best be remembered as the voice of the Ukrainian community across Alberta, and beyond. </span></span><span style="color: #4a4a4a; font-family: "source sans pro", arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17.6px;">H</span><span style="color: #4a4a4a; font-family: "source sans pro", arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17.6px;">e was a radio personality as well as a sought-after speaker and spokesman.</span><span style="color: #4a4a4a; font-family: "source sans pro", arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17.6px;"> </span><span style="color: #4a4a4a; font-family: "source sans pro", arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17.6px;">He was regularly called upon to host and MC events—local, provincial, national and international.<br /></span><br />
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</span><span style="color: #4a4a4a; font-family: "source sans pro" , "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 17.6px;">Despite working full time in the radio industry, raising a growing family and volunteering in the Ukrainian Canadian community, Roman found (or perhaps made) time to produce and present a daily Ukrainian radio program for 35 years. His highly popular show, Radio Zhurnal, aired on </span></span><span style="color: #4a4a4a; font-family: "source sans pro", arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17.6px;">CKER Radio 1480 (which later became 101.7 World FM) from March 1982 until November 2017. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #4a4a4a; font-family: "source sans pro", arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17.6px;">He had a rich, expressive voice and a way with words that inspired as well as informed and entertained. His was a "voice of authority" without effort on his part. It was just who he was. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #4a4a4a; font-family: "source sans pro", arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17.6px;">That, plus his innate kindness and generosity, made Roman a great mentor and role model to myself and other Ukrainian Canadian broadcasters. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #4a4a4a; font-family: "source sans pro", arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17.6px;">He was a great advocate for Ukrainian radio broadcasting in Canada and a consummate professional. </span><span style="color: #4a4a4a; font-family: "source sans pro", arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17.6px;">In the early days of Nash Holos, back in the 1990s before the internet, he even faxed us news stories from his station's wire services, week in and week out. Just so that we could present the most professional show possible.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #4a4a4a; font-family: "source sans pro", arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17.6px;">As the years went by, he continued to help anyone he could, any way he could. </span><span style="color: #4a4a4a; font-family: "source sans pro", arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17.6px;">For over a decade, he freely shared his knowledge and resources with a group of us in a private email group. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #4a4a4a; font-family: "source sans pro", arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17.6px;">He shared new songs that came his way, interviews and information, and other material for our shows. Occasionally, he'd throw out comments just for discussion or "food for thought." </span><span style="color: #4a4a4a; font-family: "source sans pro", arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17.6px;">He was generous with his wisdom and shrewd insights into politics and other matters. His practical advice always proved invaluable. </span><span style="color: #4a4a4a; font-family: "source sans pro", arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17.6px;">I always felt enriched, encouraged, and empowered after a conversation with him.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #4a4a4a; font-family: "source sans pro", arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17.6px;">Roman had a really dry sense of humour, and a very sharp wit. Not much got past him. He never gossiped, yet managed to impart his opinion about people, circumstances, and situations elegantly, and clearly. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #4a4a4a; font-family: "source sans pro", arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17.6px;">A pragmatist, but also a perfectionist in his work, Roman set a high standard for those of us who looked up to him for guidance and inspiration in our own broadcasting endeavours.</span><span style="color: #4a4a4a; font-family: "source sans pro", arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17.6px;"> </span></div>
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<span style="color: #4a4a4a; font-family: "source sans pro", arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17.6px;">Roman Brytan will be sorely missed, not just as a colleague but also as a friend. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #4a4a4a; font-family: "source sans pro", arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17.6px;">His funeral </span><span style="color: #4a4a4a; font-family: "source sans pro", arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17.6px;">was held on December 5, 2018 at Exaltation of the Holy Cross Ukrainian Catholic Church in Edmonton, with interment in St. Michael's Cemetery. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #4a4a4a; font-family: source sans pro, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 17.6px;">Вічная пам`ять! May his memory be eternal.</span></span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21847606.post-68243155205285249812018-12-05T23:23:00.000-08:002018-12-05T23:23:37.117-08:00Trudeau Liberals fail to stand up for Ukraine<div style="background-color: white; color: #202020; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 16px; text-align: left;">
On December 4, 2018, the Trudeau Liberals blocked a motion calling on the Russian Ambassador to appear before the Standing Committee on National Defence. </div>
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Today, December 5, James Bezan, Shadow Minister for National Defence, along with Richard Martel, Associate Shadow Minister for National Defence and Cheryl Gallant, Member of Parliament for Renfrew – Nipissing – Pembroke, issued the following statement: </div>
<span style="background-color: white; color: #202020; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 16px;"> </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #202020; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #202020; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 16px;">“The Trudeau Liberals voted to adjourn debate on a motion brought forward by MP Gallant calling on the Ambassador of Russia to testify at the Standing Committee on National Defence, where parliamentarians would have a chance to ask questions about the increasing Russian aggression in the region. The violence has escalated to unprecedented levels with the capture of three Ukrainian ships in international waters by Russian military forces.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #202020; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #202020; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 16px;"> </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #202020; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #202020; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 16px;">“The Committee heard loud and clear today from the Ambassadors of Ukraine, Moldova, and Georgia that their sovereignty and territorial integrity is in serious peril. It is unfortunate that the Trudeau government is failing to assist Canada’s allies in the face of this threat.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #202020; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #202020; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 16px;"> </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #202020; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #202020; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 16px;">“The Liberals proved today that they are willing to appease Russia instead of standing with our allies, Ukraine, Moldova, Georgia, and others in the region. It’s unacceptable that Justin Trudeau is damaging Canada’s reputation on the world stage by engaging in diplomacy with despots and dictators.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #202020; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #202020; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 16px;"> </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #202020; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #202020; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 16px;">“Canada’s Conservatives continue to condemn Vladimir Putin’s invasion of sovereign Ukrainian territory, and we will not sit back and watch as Putin threatens our NATO allies. We will always stand with Ukraine in its struggle for sovereignty and territorial integrity, and we call on the Trudeau government to do the same.”</span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21847606.post-82952599402989090382018-11-27T13:07:00.005-08:002018-11-27T13:07:46.867-08:00Conservatives condemn the attack and capture of Ukrainian vessels by Russian forces<div style="background-color: white; color: #202020; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 16px; text-align: left;">
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #202020; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 16px;"> </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #202020; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 16px;" /><strong style="background-color: white; color: #202020; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 16px;">Ottawa, ON</strong><span style="background-color: white; color: #202020; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 16px;"> – The Honourable Andrew Scheer, Leader of Canada’s Conservatives and of the Official Opposition, today issued the following statement:</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #202020; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #202020; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 16px;"> </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #202020; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #202020; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 16px;">“Canada’s Conservatives condemn the recent use of military force by Russian forces on three Ukrainian Navy ships, as they transited the Kerch Strait between the Black and Azov Seas. These acts represent an unacceptable escalation of tension in the region, since the beginning of the Russian military occupation of sovereign Ukrainian territory.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #202020; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #202020; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 16px;"> </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #202020; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #202020; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 16px;">“As a senior NATO partner, Canada must urge our partners to address Russian aggression in the Black Sea region. The Kerch Strait is key to Ukrainian economic development, and any violation of the transit rights of Ukrainian ships in this area goes against international law.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #202020; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #202020; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 16px;"> </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #202020; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #202020; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 16px;">“Today we call on the Liberals to impose a wider range of sanctions against those responsible for the attack. We also urge the Trudeau government to provide lethal aid to Ukraine’s military as we requested last spring.</span><br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21847606.post-88463404106572855632018-11-24T11:12:00.003-08:002022-11-24T15:59:01.088-08:00Ukrainian recipe: Remembrance Borsch (with yellow beets)<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEje4kfbWvWvQFxYIGo2UyPC8aVE57HAj86MmRTYLCmbeZwf6lu0moHN1fgnOb8slzJfefQU2qp_234e7pYNCkN6muR8o1hIS6X25j9c3voDgc_Brn-zM2UJfId65Hl5I1riEHvDl_fXwuiZ0Bb-zBSzpJBm3hjtedZVA4ECwxEBJjroIQcJsk4/s747/Yellow%20borsch%20-%202015.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="630" data-original-width="747" height="169" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEje4kfbWvWvQFxYIGo2UyPC8aVE57HAj86MmRTYLCmbeZwf6lu0moHN1fgnOb8slzJfefQU2qp_234e7pYNCkN6muR8o1hIS6X25j9c3voDgc_Brn-zM2UJfId65Hl5I1riEHvDl_fXwuiZ0Bb-zBSzpJBm3hjtedZVA4ECwxEBJjroIQcJsk4/w200-h169/Yellow%20borsch%20-%202015.jpg" width="200" /></a></div>This recipe originated with Ukrainians in the United States. By the early 2000s it was becoming part of their Thanksgiving tradition.</div></div>
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This yellow-coloured borsch was intended to be served as the first course of Thanksgiving Day dinner. <div><br /></div><div>Since then, however, the Saturday after American Thanksgiving (i.e., the fourth Saturday in November) has become an official day of remembrance to commemorate Holodomor. </div><div><br /></div><div>This sad commemoration has created a very appropriate, and dedicated, occasion to serve this symbolic dish.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh4sx8SfgkV-ytostRFl7oiDwzBEpG1oEYWRNKJgWhC1ajOHEzV4vbG4J6NNBr3GEjv7bPW1jdKaG8_Fsk6D4TOaHmybiohQoMVbpKcGlAZ3rqEWIAf6m-Yrp9n1VfcG5h_bY2BIpq4ZLNMCrw5c_uuN-DgB_OApP6pWOKe8dw_ufrc31rv8ls/s724/Holodomor%20picture.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="724" data-original-width="500" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh4sx8SfgkV-ytostRFl7oiDwzBEpG1oEYWRNKJgWhC1ajOHEzV4vbG4J6NNBr3GEjv7bPW1jdKaG8_Fsk6D4TOaHmybiohQoMVbpKcGlAZ3rqEWIAf6m-Yrp9n1VfcG5h_bY2BIpq4ZLNMCrw5c_uuN-DgB_OApP6pWOKe8dw_ufrc31rv8ls/s320/Holodomor%20picture.jpg" width="221" /></a></div><br /></div><div>The borsch is always accompanied by a moment of silence. </div><div><br /></div><div>This moment of silence is in remembrance of the millions of Ukrainians who died in the Holodomor famine-genocide of 1932-33 and the following Years of Terror at the hands of soviet communists. <div><div><br /></div><div>As well, in remembrance and gratitude for those who survived, and for the family's own abundance today. </div><div><br /></div><div>The recipe is patterned after the meatless borsch served at Ukrainian Christmas Eve dinner, Sviat Vechir. It varies from family to family, but the one constant is the substitution of yellow beets for the red.</div><div>
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Yellow (also called golden) beets give the broth a golden colour. Yellow is a colour often related to mourning in Ukrainian culture.<br />
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To make Remembrance Borsch, start with a mushroom broth. If you can get them, used dried mushroom caps imported from Poland. (These are the closest to those that used to come from Ukraine before Chornobyl.) Otherwise, use a combination of Italian porcinis, Japanese shiitakes, or other flavourful species. <br />
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Soak dried mushrooms several hours or overnight. Wash carefully to get rid of any bits of sand or dirt. Strain the dark water through a coffee filter and add it to the salted cooking water for the washed mushrooms. Let it simmer several hours, adding more boiling water as needed. <br />
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If you’re pressed for time, the ready-made mushroom broth now available in supermarkets or delis will do.<br />
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To the broth, add chopped or shredded beets, chopped potato, carrot, onion, mushrooms, dillweed, a bay leaf, and season with salt and pepper. There are no rules, other than using ingredients that even the poorest peasant would have in his or her bit of garden.<br />
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Add your favourite vushka (mushroom-stuffed mini perogie-like dumplings), sprinkle with chopped fresh dill. <br />
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If you can’t find yellow beets, use a combination of white turnips and a parsnip (for sweetness). Colour the broth with a few strands of saffron, a pinch of turmeric, or as a last resort, a few drops of yellow food colouring.<br />
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If you don’t have the time or skill to make vushka, dried mushroom-filled Italian tortellini are a reasonable facsimile. <br />
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Don’t skimp on the fresh dill. (Make sure to use fresh, not dried dill weed or dill seed.) Most supermarkets carry fresh dill year round. As well, it can be chopped and frozen fresh for use later.<br /><br /></div><div>Whether or not you are celebrating American Thanksgiving, this is an excellent symbolic borsch to serve during Holodomor Remembrance week wherever you are in the world. <br />
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This recipe and the accompanying information came by email from Peter Borisow, of the Hollywood Trident Foundation. <br />
<br />It has been presented on Nash Holos Ukrainian Roots Radio by Judy Hrynenko (<a href="http://ow.ly/UqATU" target="_blank">here</a>) and the late Sylvia Molnar (<a href="http://ow.ly/UqBea" target="_blank">here</a>). These features have aired every November for the past several years in honour of Holodomor Remembrance. </div><div><br /></div><div>Please feel free to incorporate this ritual dish into your American Thanksgiving and/or Holodomor commenorations, and share the story with others. </div><div><br /></div><div>If you would like a proper recipe for Remembrance Borsch, with proportions, I have shared one which was adapted from my award-winning entry in the 2015 Borsch Competition in Victoria. Story and recipe <a href="https://nashholos.blogspot.com/2015/11/my-excellent-adventure-at-2015-borsch.html" target="_blank">here</a>. <br /><br />
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One of the organizers, Maria Koropecky (who was interviewed on the <a href="http://www.nashholos.com/nash-holos-nanaimo-2015-1104-hour-1/" target="_blank">Nov. 4 edition of Nash Holos</a>) challenged me to enter the competition, so I did.<br />
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I was honoured (and, quite frankly, astounded) that my entry won the People's Choice Award ... and also Judges' Honourable Mention.<br />
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Came home with a cash prize (which covered the cost of ingredients and gas for the drive down to Victoria) for the People's Choice Award. For the Honourable Mention, I received a copy of a great cookbook by one of the judges, Cinda Chavich, <i><a href="https://amzn.to/2TDC1HM" target="_blank">The Waste Not, Want Not Cookbook: Save Food, Save Money, and Save the Planet</a>.</i><br />
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The theme of this book is especially poignant, as Ukrainians tend to abhor wasting food, given how often throughout history, especially during the soviet era, it was denied them.<br />
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Along with Cinda, the other judges were <a href="http://camosun.ca/learn/school/business/_faculty/aitchison-lee.html" target="_blank">Lee Aitchison</a>,Hospitality Management Instructor at Camosun College; and Michael Tymchuk, producer of CBC's food show <a href="http://www.cbc.ca/themainingredient/about-the-show.html" target="_blank">The Main Ingredient</a>.<br />
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The borsch I entered was not the typical beet red that most people associate with borsch. That's because it was made with yellow (golden) beets.<br />
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It's called Remembrance Borsch, in honour of the <a href="http://www.infoukes.com/history/famine/" target="_blank">Holodomor</a>, the soviet-engineered famine that deliberately starved to death 7-10 million Ukrainians in 1932-33.<br />
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The colour yellow is symbolic of mourning in Ukrainian tradition, so that's why this borsch is made with yellow beets. <br />
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I've been sharing the story of Remembrance Borsch with listeners of <a href="http://www.nashholos.com/" target="_blank">Nash Holos Ukrainian Roots Radio</a> for several years now. If you're not familiar with it, and would like to be, check out this <a href="http://nashholos.blogspot.ca/2011/11/ukrainian-recipe-remembrance-borsch.html" target="_blank">blog post</a>.<br />
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For anyone who tasted my Remembrance Borsch at the Borsch Fest and would like to try making it, I am very sorry but there is no recipe proper (as in with proportions). And I am unlikely to ever reproduce the batch I made (with the help of my friend <a href="https://www.facebook.com/gerri.erickson" target="_blank">Gerri</a>) as I didn't keep track of the proportions I used.<br />
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However, I will share what I remember, to the best of my abillity. The rest is up to you. Which is kind of fitting, because by nature Ukrainians are very individualistic and independent ... and that is in large part why the Soviets tried to wipe them out, by starvation and other gruesome methods.<br />
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November is Holodomor Remembrance Month, and the last Saturday of November is set aside as Holodomor Remembrance Day. At sunset, candles are lit in remembrance of those who perished in this heinous, man-made famine. To me, it's very important to make this borsch and remember the millions of innocent victims, so that never again will human beings be starved by the millions merely to promote an ideology. <br />
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This recipe for Remembrance Borsch should create a reasonable facsimile of the one I made for Borsch Fest. <br />
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8-10 cups shredded or diced yellow beets <br />
5-6 cups shredded cabbage <br />
3 cups finely chopped onion <br />
1-2 cups chopped fresh mushrooms <br />
6 cups diced potatoes <br />
5 cups diced rutabaga<br />
2 cups shredded carrots<br />
2 cups chopped fresh dill<br />
1/4 lb. butter<br />
3 Tbsp salt<br />
2 Tbsp black pepper<br />
3 litres mushroom broth<br />
1-2 litres beetroot broth<br />
2-3 Tbsp lemon or lime juice<br />
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Saute the mushrooms, onion, half the cabbage, and half the dill in butter until the veggies are a nice golden colour.<br />
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Put them in a large stock pot, along with the liquids, seasonings, and the rest of the veggies, except for the beets. Simmer until the potaotes and rutabaga are soft, about 1/2 hour. <br />
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Add the shredded beets, and gently simmer for about 1/2 hour. <br />
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<u><b>NB:</b></u> Make sure the borsch does NOT boil vigorously. Borsch should never be boiled. It makes the beets lose their colour and just does something to the taste that is less than desirable. Keep it at a gentle simmer.<br />
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This will make a huge stock pot full, about 10-12 litres, so you might want to cut the ingredients in half. <br />
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A tip for preparing the beets for borsch, especially using red beets: Scrub really well, trim off any blemishes, and put them to simmer, with the skin on. When soft, drain the beets and cool. Reserve the liquid. This will be your beetroot broth. When beets are cool, peel and shred. Adding the beets at the end will keep the beets from going white, so your borsch will have a nice, rich colour.<br />
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I hope that some day serving this yellow borsch to commemorate Holodomor Remembrance Day will be part of Ukrainian tradition. We should never forget. <br />
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If you decide to try it, I'd love to hear how yours turned out.<br />
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Meanwhile, here are some pictures from the 2nd Annual Borsch Fest in Victoria. <br />
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While looking into the Ukrainian connection to this ubiquitous Jewish standard, I came across a documentary film about the song, called Hava Nagila (The Movie).<br />
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I contacted the production company in Los Angeles, and they kindly allowed me to screen it for review.<br />
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In this week's Ukrainian Jewish Heritage episode, I described my search and reviewed the movie. You can read and listen to it <a href="https://wp.me/p45lJC-1vX" target="_blank">here</a>.<br />
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I also went one step past where the movie ends the story—YouTube. It seemed to me that in terms of storytelling technique, ending the story of Hava Nagila at YouTube was leaving the story unfinished. A hanging thread.<br />
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In the course of producing this series and presenting some of the episodes, I discovered that much work is being done to restore what is left of Ukraine's Jewish communities destroyed by the Nazis and Soviets in the last century.<br />
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So I thought I would check to see how popular Hava Nagila is today in its ancestral birthplace.<br />
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Very popular, it seems!<br />
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Do a google search for Hava Nagila Ukraine and you'll be amazed at what pops up!<br />
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I can save you a bit of time by starting you out with a few that I found. Enjoy!<br />
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<b>Dnipro 2017;</b><br />
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<b>Students in Kharkiv</b><br />
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<b>In Czernowitz</b><br />
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ManSound in Israel 2012<br />
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<b>Ukrainian musicians in Paris subway </b><br />
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<b>Dnieper cruiseship lounge 2012
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It's Fun To Be Ukrainian </h2>
by Shoom<br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><b>This is a great way for beginners to learn how to speak Ukrainian (or more accurately, Ukrainian-Canadian). Just sing along with the song! Watch and repeat, and in no time, you will have these basic words as part of your vocabulary!</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><b>Glossary:</b> </span></h3>
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">(To help you understand the Ukrainian words and sing along. The rest of the words are in English.) </span></span><br />
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<td>Yak sha m<b>ay</b>esh? </td>
<td>How are ya?</td>
<td>Як ся маєш?</td>
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<td><b>Du</b>zhe <b>dob</b>re! </td>
<td>Very good!</td>
<td>Дуже добре!</td>
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<td>Pyro<b>hy</b></td>
<td>Perogies </td>
<td>Пироги</td>
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<td><b>Ho</b>lubtsi </td>
<td>Cabbage Rolls </td>
<td>Голубці</td>
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<td><b>Ku</b>basa </td>
<td>Smoked Garlic Sausage </td>
<td>Ковбаса</td>
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<td><b>Ki</b>shka </td>
<td>Blood Sausage </td>
<td>Кішка </td>
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<td>Chas<b>nyk</b></td>
<td>Garlic </td>
<td>Часник</td>
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<td>Za<b>ba</b>va do <b>rahn</b>ya!</td>
<td>Party till dawn!</td>
<td>Забава до раня!</td></tr>
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<i>It's Fun to be Ukrainian</i> can be heard (often) on Nash Holos Ukrainian Roots Radio... along with lots of other ones!</div>
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Get show times and/or subscribe to the podcast <a href="https://www.nashholos.com/" target="_blank">here</a>.</div>
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Enjoy your lesson. Repeat often until memorized! </div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21847606.post-27259563793953561932018-09-13T12:10:00.002-07:002018-09-13T12:12:14.893-07:00Blast from the past - Taras Bulba A great movie that was ahead of its time. Too bad there weren't more like it produced.<br />
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Maybe if there were, the West would not be so ignorant about Ukrainian history that most, especially the media, have no clue what is going on now, much less understand the dire consequences of throwing Ukraine under the bus.<br />
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Anyway, enjoy the movie clips and the background tune, Розпрягайте хлопці коні (Unharness the Horses, boys) by the group Ekspress.<br />
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Truth be known, I've missed blogging. Social media has its place, and it's great fun (most of the time). But blogging is a much better venue to engage with Nash Holos listeners and followers! Time will tell if I end up doing most of it here or at the Nash Holos website.<br />
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In my personal life, the biggest and most drastic changes have been the loss of my sister (cancer) and my mom, within less than a year of each other. As well I was away from home for several months so I could spend time with them in their final days.<br />
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It's been a rough couple of years.<br />
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But as they say in showbiz, the show must go on. And I made sure it did...as it has been for going on 30 years since the first incarnation of the show in 1990.<br />
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Over course of all those years, many things changed. Especially the technology! (Anyone remember reel-to-reel tapes? LOL)<br />
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For now, here's a rundown of the most recent and noticeable changes at Nash Holos Ukrainian Roots Radio.<br />
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Ukrainian Food Flair</h3>
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In 2015, we lost Sylvia Molnar to cancer. She had been with the show since the early 1990s.<br />
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It was a shock, and the beginning of a long stretch of personal loss and heartbreak for me.<br />
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Over the years Sylvia contributed more than 200 recipes, countless cooking tips and interesting anecdotes to the show since the early 1990s, on the series Ukrainian Food Flair.<br />
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From time to time you may hear the audio archives of Sylvia's Food Flair recordings. Just because she was such a big part of the show for so long.<br />
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I've been thinking about publishing Sylvia's recipes for some time now. As well as other recipes. Publishing comes with its own challenges, but, it may actually come to pass some day soon.<br />
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Meanwhile, I would love to bring back Ukrainian Food Flair to the Nash Holos airwaves in a fresh new format. If you have any suggestions or thoughts to share, please leave a comment below.<br />
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Nash Holos Nanaimo edition</h3>
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• Introducing Oksana </h4>
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In May of 2016, Oksana Poberezhnyk joined me to host the second hour of the Nanaimo edition of Nash Holos in Ukrainian. She is a delight to work with and a natural on air. Her enthusiasm is contagious and she has many great ideas for improving the show going forward.<br />
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The Nanaimo edition airs Wednesdays on CHLY 101.7fm on the radio dial from11am-12pm with me (Pawlina) in English and from 12-1pm with Oksana in Ukrainian.<br />
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If you're not in Nanaimo (or even if you are), just for fun I suggest listening to the live stream (<a href="https://www.chly.ca/listen" target="_blank">here</a>) on CHLY's new online media player.<br />
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A nifty new logging system for producers & presenters comes with an equally nifty bonus for listeners: it displays the artist and track title on the station's streaming online media player while the song is playing.</div>
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This is cutting edge technology in Radioland, and this feature will one day be ubiquitous across all radio stations and listening platforms. But at this time it's only available for the Nanaimo edition of Nash Holos, and only on the <a href="http://www.chly.ca/" target="_blank">CHLY website</a> live stream player. So if you have an FM radio player on your phone, or you're on your laptop, tablet or desktop, check it out <a href="https://www.chly.ca/listen" target="_blank">here</a>! And let me know how you like it.<br />
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If you can't catch the live broadcast or online stream, you can catch the podcast on Mixcloud, a very slick streaming site. (<a href="https://www.mixcloud.com/nashholosukrainianrootsradio/" target="_blank">Here</a>.)<br />
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New Distribution channels </h3>
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<b>• RSS Feed</b></h4>
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Nash Holos has had its own <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RSS" target="_blank">RSS feed</a> for many years, and has had its share of growing pains along with all the changes in the technology itself.<br />
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Despite that RSS is considered old-school (largely because it has been around for over a decade), it actually has been evolving and keeping up with the times. It's especially useful with podcast listening apps, which are very mobile-friendly. (I personally use <a href="https://www.facebook.com/podcastAddict/" target="_blank">Podcast Addict</a> for Android.)<br />
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If you are a podcaster yourself and are looking for a home for your podcast files, I highly recommend <a href="https://app.pippa.io/invite/r/nashholos" target="_blank">Pippa</a>. It's a newcomer on the block but after checking out the options, I chose this one. It makes my life so much easier! No coding or "back-end" stuff to worry about. Yay!!<br />
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Mixcloud offers only streaming, which seems to be the way things are going, as most seem to people prefer streaming to downloading these days. You can still download Nash Holos audio files <a href="http://www.nashholos.com/feed/podcast/" target="_blank">here.</a><br />
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<b>• iTunes</b></h4>
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Until recently, the Nash Holos podcast <a href="https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/id1426833296?mt=2" target="_blank">link to iTunes</a> has been an on-again off-again nightmare. Many reasons for that. Not least of all because I originally uploaded it, many years ago, as a manually-created xml file. (If you don't know what that means, consider yourself lucky).<br />
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I knew nothing at that time about coding, and even less now. So whenever it "broke" for reasons you have to know coding to figure out, I was lost. Now I no longer have to worry about it. For the iTunes link to the Nash Holos podcast, click <a href="https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/id1426833296?mt=2" target="_blank">here</a>.<br />
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<b>• Mixcloud</b></h4>
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If you follow Mixcloud to listen to podcasts, you can find the Nash Holos feed there. CHLY recently chose Mixcloud as a distribution for the station's program podcasts, and kindly included the Nash Holos feed rather than just the Nanaimo edition of the show.<br />
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So Mixcloud users can get both the Vancouver and Nanaimo editions there, as well as the "bonus" tracks of separate features like Ukrainian Jewish Heritage, Knyzhka Corner Book Reviews, etc.<br />
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And another bonus: Mixcloud is on Sonos! So if you have Sonos on your home sound system, you can get Nash Holos on it. Just make sure to follow Nash Holos on Mixcloud and it will appear on your Sonos.<br />
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To find and follow Nash Holos on Mixcloud, click <a href="https://www.mixcloud.com/nashholosukrainianrootsradio/" target="_blank">here</a>.<br />
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• YouTube</h4>
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Several years ago now, someone recommended putting Nash Holos on YouTube because a lot of people actually access audio there. I liked the idea but found that it was just too time-consuming.<br />
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But now <a href="https://app.pippa.io/invite/r/nashholos" target="_blank">Pippa</a> "automagically" posts each episode to the Nash Holos YouTube channel. </div>
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You can find the Nash Holos YouTube channel <a href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCyyJ1cK1F4oxiDThspubRbg" target="_blank">here</a>. Make sure to subscribe if you haven't yet!<br />
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Nash Holos Patreon Page</h3>
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If you consider Nash Holos a valuable public service that is worth supporting financially, there is now a Patreon page where you can make a monthly pledge of $1 or more. Different tiers of support come with a variety "goodies" as tokens of appreciation for your support. For example, donors who pledge $5 or more get a free ebook of Ukrainian proverbs. (More to come!) You can find it <a href="https://www.patreon.com/NashHolos" target="_blank">here</a>.<br />
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More changes coming, so stay tuned!<br />
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Other opportunities to support the show</h3>
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It is definitely not a cliché that Nash Holos is "brought to you" by our sponsors and advertisers. It truly is, and I am eternally grateful for their support.<br />
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Particular thanks to <a href="http://ukrainianjewishencounter.org/" target="_blank">Ukrainian Jewish Encounter</a>, the <a href="https://shevchenkofoundation.com/" target="_blank">Shevchenko Foundation</a>, and <a href="https://cnuf.ca/" target="_blank">Canada's National Ukrainian Festival</a>, who have been regular supporters of the show for the past several years. Without their support, I would not have been able to pay the bills and keep Nash Holos on the air. </div>
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So as a Nash Holos listener, please visit their websites and support them in turn whenever you can. And let them know you heard about them on Nash Holos!<br />
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If you happen to have an advertising budget for your business, professional service, or non-profit organization, please consider advertising on the show. You can also purchase advertising on behalf of your favourite Ukrainian charity or cultural non-profit that can't afford it themselves, so they can convey their message to Nash Holos listeners.<br />
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Another way to support the show is to use the Amazon (and other) affiliate links on the Nash Holos website/blog when shopping online. It will cost you <u>absolutely nothing</u>. Amazon will not charge you anything; the prices for things will always be the same whether you get to their site via a search engine or via an affiliate link. However they do pay a small commission as a reward for sending shoppers their way. So you can send a few cents to Nash Holos out of someone else's pocket simply by shopping at Amazon via a link on the <a href="http://www.nashholos.com/" target="_blank">Nash Holos website</a> or here on this blog. ;)<br />
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Recipes page </h3>
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One last change I'll mention today, and it's here on this blog. If you haven't yet noticed, I've published a Recipe page which is available in the menu bar. The page consists of links to the recipes that have been posted here on this blog over the years. It's an index of sorts to make the recipes easier to access. I plan to add to the list, so you'll be seeing more activity here on the blog again.<br />
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To keep up with the changes, make sure to subscribe to the blog, bookmark it, or do whatever else to keep it on your radar!<br />
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Please leave a comment below and let me know your thoughts on any of these changes, or just about the show itself. </div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21847606.post-5170938808991505582018-07-14T19:25:00.000-07:002018-08-27T18:05:54.007-07:00Ukrainian Jewish Heritage: 2018 Summer Reading Round UpWhat is summer without reading? I can imagine no greater pleasure than sitting down with a good book—or two—on a lazy summer afternoon at the beach or by the pool, on a shady deck, or sprawled out on a lush green lawn. <br />
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Here on <a href="http://www.nashholos.com/" target="_blank">Nash Holos Ukrainian Roots Radio</a>, we have been fortunate to learn of and review many excellent books on our series <a href="https://www.nashholos.com/features/ukrainian-jewish-heritage/" target="_blank">Ukrainian Jewish Heritage</a>. The books cover a wide range of topics involving Jews, Ukrainians, and their interactions over the years.<br />
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These interactions have not always been amicable, and it is a testament to the authors for broaching controversial topics and examining them with sensitivity, empathy, and a sense of fairness.
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The books on this list cover a myriad of topics over a broad time frame spanning centuries of Jewish presence in, and contributions to, Ukraine.<br />
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Stories of Khmelnytsky<br /><a href="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-jX6pAIEhAdk/W0qfOWgi_PI/AAAAAAAAGZ0/MeUksdCU5k4bb-hSvZHiLQQPNFvBn0fGQCLcBGAs/s1600/Stories%2Bof%2BKhmelytsky.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="250" data-original-width="167" height="200" src="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-jX6pAIEhAdk/W0qfOWgi_PI/AAAAAAAAGZ0/MeUksdCU5k4bb-hSvZHiLQQPNFvBn0fGQCLcBGAs/s200/Stories%2Bof%2BKhmelytsky.jpg" width="133" /></a></h2>
<a href="https://amzn.to/2KYDIPo" target="_blank"><i>Stories of Khmelnytsky</i></a> features provocative essays by distinguished scholars from throughout North America, Europe, and Israel. It takes an honest look at one of the most contentious historical figures plaguing Ukrainian Jewish dialogue. <br />
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This book carefully addresses, without attempting to resolve, the fundamental questions Khmelnytsky’s image provokes. <br />
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Whether viewed as a hero or a villain this 17th century historical figure bolstered national solidarity among Ukrainians and other nations. Surprisingly he actually inspired some early Jewish radical Zionists and served as a model for Jewish pioneers building a new homeland in early 20th century Palestine.<br />
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One essay notes that this volume on Khmelnytsky drives home the fact that history itself is made up not so much of facts as of stories.<br />
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Cultural Dimensions</h2>
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<i>Cultural Dimensions </i>is another collection of essays. These explore how cultural interaction between Jews and Ukrainians unfolded over centuries through diverse and daily encounters, and how that interaction had a profound impact on both communities. <br />
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The essays in this collection open doors for new research that can help create a joint narrative for Jews and Ukrainians. <br />
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This collection of essays was co-edited by Wolf Moskovich, Professor
Emeritus, Hebrew University of Jerusalem; and Alti Rodal, Co-Director of
the Ukrainian Jewish Encounter, who also wrote the introduction to the
volume. <br />
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The richly illustrated book appears as volume 25 within the series Jews and Slavs published by the Hebrew University of Jerusalem since 1993. The book was published in 2016 and can be acquired by contacting Wolf Moskovich at wmoskovich@gmail.com.
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A Prayer for the Government</h2>
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<i><a href="https://amzn.to/2zFJ4tQ" target="_blank">A Prayer for the Government: Ukrainians and Jews in Revolutionary Times, 1917-1920 </a></i>explores an ill fated attempt at rapprochement between Ukrainians and Jews a century ago. <br />
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The author, Dr. Henry Abramson, calls it a “bright chapter” in the long history of the Jewish people. One in which Jews were emancipated into a free state, with privileges as a minority that exceeded even those in Western Europe and America. <br />
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However, by the spring of 1919 Ukraine was submerged by a wave of violence that became one of the darkest chapters of Jewish history, only overshadowed later by the Holocaust.<br />
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Abramson’s meticulous account traces how the attempt by both Jews and Ukrainians to achieve a working political relationship was betrayed by less enlightened attitudes among the general population as well as by the political and social instability of the time.
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Jews and Ukrainians: A Millennium of Co-Existence </h2>
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In their book<i> <a href="https://amzn.to/2NdBnge" target="_blank">Jews and Ukrainians: A Millennium of Co-Existence</a>,</i> two distinguished academics, Paul Robert Magocsi and Yohanan Petrovsky-Shtern produced a parallel narrative of two peoples in 12 thematic chapters in the book outline the rich history of Jews and Ukrainians. <br />
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They cover geography, history, economic life, traditional culture, religion and language as well as literature, the arts, music, the Diaspora, and contemporary Ukraine. <br />
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With over 300 full-color illustrations, over two dozen maps, plus several text inserts, the book is extremely reader friendly. <br />
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<i>Jews and Ukrainians: A Millennium of Co-Existence </i>won a Special Recognition Award at the Lviv Book Forum in 2016.
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The Great Departure<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<a href="https://amzn.to/2LlJK9f" target="_blank"><i>The Great Departure: Mass Migration From Eastern Europe and the Making of the Free World </i></a>explores the devastating human toll of migration. <br />
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Author Tara Zahra examines one of the largest migrations of human history… 50 million Europeans who moved to the Americas between 1846 and 1910. These included Ukrainians, Poles and Jews of Galicia.<br />
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The western Ukrainian city of Brody, then on the frontier of the Russian and Austrian empires, became the gateway to the New World. Albeit not without all manner of exploitation enroute, not least of all human trafficking. <br />
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The policies that shaped this great migration set a template for future tragic, events in the 20th century. The resulting bureaucratic “paper walls” doomed Europe’s Jewish population from escaping the Holocaust, the closing of the Iron Curtain, and ethnic cleansing.<br />
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The author places the current refugee crisis within the longer history of migration.
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Sheptytsky from A to Zed </h2>
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A remarkable children’s book—and a book that will delight not only children—created a stir at the 2015 Lviv Book Forum. <i><br /><br />Sheptytsky from A to Zed</i> offers a delightful yet thoughtful account of a renowned figure’s life through the letters of the alphabet. <br />
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Andriy Sheptytsky, became Metropolitan Archbishop of Lviv and head of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church in the early to mid 20th century. He risked his life and those of his clergy hiding Jews in his palace, and throughout Ukrainian Catholic monasteries in Galicia. <br />
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Sheptytsky’s achievements as a scholar, philanthropist, patron of the arts, and leading public figure in Ukrainian society are also covered in this charming and engaging book.
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Yiddish-Ukrainian dictionary<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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On the theme- sort of- of alphabet and languages, is an astonishing discovery in the world of dictionaries. <br />
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Dr. Dmytro Tyshchenko is the son of a Jewish mother and a Ukrainian father from Donbas, and the creator of a massive and highly acclaimed Yiddish-Ukrainian dictionary. <br />
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After discovering his Yiddish roots In 1988, Tyshchenko devoted his life to learning the language of his ancestors, and making it accessible to others. Especially a younger generation that has embraced the study of Yiddish. <br />
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Now living in Frankfurt, Tyshchenko is developing an online version of his dictionary.
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<h2>
East-West Street </h2>
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Much of the world has no idea of the origins of the term genocide, which like the holocaust is in danger of becoming an empty cliché instead of a metaphor for the capacity of man’s inhumanity to man. <a href="https://amzn.to/2uoy66V" target="_blank"><i><br /><br />East-West Street</i> </a>tells the story of two jurists from Lviv who were instrumental in shaping the precedent setting Nuremberg trial. This book is a gripping account of the origins—in effect, the invention—of the terms “genocide” and “crimes against humanity.” <br />
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These two concepts became the centerpiece for the prosecution of Nazi war criminals. <br />
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The author of <i>East-West Street</i>, Phillipe Sands, brings together the stories of his grandfather and these two jurists, Rafael Lemkin and Hersch Lauterpacht. <br />
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All three men had the misfortune of having their entire families sent to their deaths by the Nazi governor of German-occupied Poland Hans Frank, who visited Lviv in 1942.<br />
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In an astonishing twist, Sands, got to know the son of Hans Frank while working on this book. Sands also met the son of another Nazi, Otto von Wachter, who was in charge of Lviv during the Second World War. <br />
What the reader will find in this fascinating book is that in the face of horror it is possible to find the courage and strength to achieve extraordinary goals.
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City of Lions<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<a href="https://amzn.to/2L757y7" target="_blank"><i>City of Lions</i></a> is a story about Lviv, the western Ukrainian city often referred to as the Vienna of the east. <br />
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The book consists of an essay by Polish author Josef Wittlin who waxes eloquent about an early twentieth century Lviv still glittering with an imperial Austrian splendor. It was a city that ceased to exist by 1945. <br />
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A matching essay My Lviv by Philippe Sands, echoes the Wittlin text but brings Lviv into modern times.<br />
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Sands calls out the failure of those in today’s Lviv to fully acknowledge all its history. Nonetheless he admits the ineffable spirit of the city ultimately seduces him.
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<h2>
The Dead Man in the Bunker</h2>
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In Martin Pollack his book, <a href="https://amzn.to/2umumCU" target="_blank"><i>The Dead Man in the Bunker</i></a>, a man is found murdered in 1947 in the mountains between Austria and Italy. <br />
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He was not just any man. He was a highly ranked SS officer who commanded death squads in Eastern Europe and was head of the Gestapo in the Austrian city of Linz. And he was the author’s father. <br />
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Pollack developed an interest in Galicia after he was barred from Poland by communist authorities from 1980 to 1989. His first book cemented a lifelong passion for the subject: It’s title is <i>To Galicia: Of Hassidim, Hutsuls, Poles, and Ruthenians. An Imaginary Journey Through the Vanished World of Eastern Galicia and Bukovina </i>(in German and Polish only). <br />
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Galicia was a part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire up to 1918. It was an enlightened empire that provided emancipation for the Jews, and institutionalized nation-building for both Poles and Ukrainians. But, as Pollack points out, elsewhere Galicia was generally considered foreign, distant, almost hostile. <br />
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It was also the poorhouse of the empire. Grinding poverty sent massive waves of Jewish, Polish, and Ukrainian migrants to distant shores in a desperate search of a better life. Pollack relates this story in his book <i>Emperor of America: The Great Escape From Galicia</i> (in German and Polish only). <br />
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Poverty provokes pity, but also contempt. Pollack reminds us that Hitler first met Galician Jews in Vienna before the First World War and expressed his hatred in Mein Kampf. <br />
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The Second World War destroyed Galicia as a multi-ethnic and multi-cultural society. While Pollack laments the fact that Ukrainian Galicia still remains too little known among Westerners, his readers will not be among them.
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Babyn Yar: History and Memory<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Babyn Yar is one of the most notorious sites which became symbolic of the Holocaust to the world beyond Ukraine, although to Ukrainians it symbolizes many tragedies that took place during the Nazi occupation. <br />
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Over 100,000 victims of Nazi tyranny lie at the bottom of this ravine, including 34,000 Jews who were slaughtered over the course of just two days.<a href="https://amzn.to/2zH5dbg" target="_blank"><i> <br /><br />Babyn Yar: History and Memory,</i></a> is a bilingual collection in Ukrainian and English of scholarly essays dedicated to the commemoration of the seventy-fifth anniversary of this atrocity. <br />
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This book is the result of the collaborative effort of scholars working with the editors Vladyslav Hrynevych and Paul Robert Magocsi. The scholars are from various disciplines in Canada, France, Israel, the Netherlands, Ukraine, and the United States. <br />
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At the center of the book of course is the history of a Nazi crime. But this book also covers the politics of memory and forgetting through the soviet era and up to the present day. <br />
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The essays provoke questions for further discussion, especially since the various authors may raise the same questions but do not always arrive at the same answers. <br />
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As the editors remind us, to know and remember the Babyn Yar tragedy means not allowing such a crime to be repeated. And in the Ukrainian experience, Babyn Yar is also a symbolic farewell to empire and its mythological legacy. <br />
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Courage and Fear </h2>
<a href="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-rwP3a9B3nGk/W0qu0enQ5EI/AAAAAAAAGbo/MwDQEqccjKIEpNFt21i1wtIYX_rmmPlTwCLcBGAs/s1600/CourageandFearBook-355x500.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="500" data-original-width="355" height="200" src="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-rwP3a9B3nGk/W0qu0enQ5EI/AAAAAAAAGbo/MwDQEqccjKIEpNFt21i1wtIYX_rmmPlTwCLcBGAs/s200/CourageandFearBook-355x500.jpg" width="141" /></a><i>Courage and Fear </i>is a devastating account of both the Soviet and Nazi occupations of Lviv in the Second World War. <br />
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The author, Polish scholar and diplomat Ola Hnatiuk, focuses on the daily life and dire choices faced by Jewish, Polish, and Ukrainian writers, artists, musicians, academics, and medical community of the city. This cultural elite outwitted, compromised with, or was destroyed by the barbarians in the garden. <br />
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The author weaves in the story of her own family, depicting the demoralization and psychological shock afflicted by totalitarian techniques. <br />
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The historian Timothy Snyder praises the human dimension expressed in this book, a richer dimension than the usual ode to tolerance or nostalgia for a long lost past. In Polish and Ukrainian only. Author interview (English translation) <a href="https://ukrainianjewishencounter.org/en/courage-fear-fact-not-aware-not-mean-not-happen/" target="_blank">here</a>.<br />
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In Wartime: Stories from Ukraine <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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While war drives wedges between people, the aftermath can bring them together. Perhaps the effort to understand how those wedges were created can one day create a strong and hopefully unbreakable bond. <br />
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Today Ukraine again finds itself at war, as usual one provoked by an outside force coveting the rich resources of Ukraine and its inhabitants. <br />
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Tim Judah is a reporter for The Economist who covered the war in Ukraine for The New York Review of Books, looks at wedges. <br />
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His book, <a href="https://amzn.to/2Lee9cz" target="_blank"><i>In Wartime: Stories from Ukraine </i></a>is a portrayal of today’s Ukraine for the Western reader. <br />
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Judah traveled far and wide throughout Ukraine. He witnessed some horrifying scenes on the front lines of the war in Donbas. He talked with people … impoverished refugees, elderly villagers, city sophisticates, and wealthy businessmen.<br />
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Judah was covering and writing about Ukraine in a period of traumatic transition. And he reminds us that these traumas often arise suddenly. The long-established order can vanish overnight. <br />
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Black Square: Adventures in Post Soviet Ukraine</h2>
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<i><a href="https://www.blogger.com/Black%20Square:%20Adventures%20in%20Post%20Soviet%20Ukraine" target="_blank">Black Square: Adventures in Post Soviet Ukraine</a></i> reveals a world not often seen by foreigners. <br />
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Author Sophie Pinkham plunges into the chaotic harm reduction world of sex workers, junkies, and other lost souls in contemporary Ukraine.<br />
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Her adventures in what she calls “post-Soviet punk delirium” include an encounter with the Last Jew in Stalindorf who recounts how once upon a time the Jews, Ukrainians and Russians there had gotten along, more or less, until Stalin starved them. <br />
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She also encounters klezmer music, a Yiddish teacher and Babyn Yar. <br />
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These books were reviewed on Nash Holos over the past few years. They remain timeless and we hope to add to them in the near future. Meanwhile if you would like to read any of them this summer, look for them in your nearest public library. Or, if you’d like to support the authors (and this show) by purchasing your book(s), please use the links provided.
You can also find the audio files and transcripts of the full book reviews at our website www.nashholos.com as well as at Ukrainian Jewish Encounter dot org.
Happy summer reading!
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21847606.post-56059563060158285062018-02-12T18:08:00.000-08:002018-09-11T18:11:07.643-07:00Nash Holos recipe: Buckwheat Pancakes Buckwheat has numerous health benefits that make it ideal for today's health conscious consumer. It’s fat-free, and we all love that!<br />
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It also contains rutin, which studies indicate lowers cholesterol and helps reduce high blood pressure. Considerable amounts of vitamin B1 and B2 prevent hardening of the arteries, while choline facilitates liver function.<br />
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Buckwheat is a good source of protein and minerals such as zinc, copper, manganese, magnesium and calcium. These minerals are important in the prevention of hypertension and anaemia.<br />
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Buckwheat cooked as kasha is a Ukrainian favourite. It’s usually eaten as a side dish or meat accompaniment, instead of rice or potatoes. It can also be used as a filling for cabbage rolls.<br />
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Although buckwheat is actually a herb, the groats are hard, like a grain, so it can also be ground into flour. Buckwheat flour has a very distinctive flavour, and it is really delicious.<br />
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Here’s a wonderful recipe that is an ideal Lenten dish: Buckwheat Pancakes. They’re quick and easy to make, and absolutely delicious!<br />
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Ingredients:</h4>
1 cup buckwheat flour<br />
1 teaspoon baking powder<br />
2 tablespoons sugar<br />
1/4 salt<br />
1 egg, beaten<br />
1 cup milk<br />
2 tablespoons melted butter<br />
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Directions: </h4>
Mix together buckwheat flour, baking powder, sugar and salt. Add beaten egg, milk and melted butter, mixing well after adding each.<br />
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Grease a skillet or griddle lightly with oil and preheat it to 375ºF.<br />
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Pour 1/4 cup batter onto hot skillet. Cook until bubbles break on the surface, flip and cook an additional minute or so, or until browned.<br />
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Serve with jam, fruit preserves or your favorite syrup…. and enjoy!Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21847606.post-82630386377992959972017-12-20T17:00:00.000-08:002018-09-10T13:48:52.561-07:00Ukrainian radio shows in Canada<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt;">These
programs broadcast on a wide variety of stations, ranging from commercial to
community and campus radio.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> Many are bilingual, and accessible to the "Ukrainian-impaired." </span><o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt;">Some programs (like mine) have been on the air for decades. Others are more recent. With few
exceptions, they are produced and hosted by underpaid if not unpaid broadcasters
who pump out their programs week after week as a “labour of love” on behalf of
the community.<br /><br /> <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt;">In
decades past, Ukrainian Canadian radio programs had limited distribution, for a
variety of reasons. Some smaller stations had low-power transmission towers
with weak signals. Also, since most programs are produced and hosted
by volunteers or self-funded individuals, there are insufficient resources to
promote the programs. Conventional wisdom holds that Ukrainian
programs are not able to generate sufficient revenues for the radio stations that air them to justify the expense of
promoting them. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt;">Today,
however, listeners can tune in to radio stations around the world on computers
and mobile devices, to access any program they want broadcasting from anywhere in the
world. <br /><br />Listeners
looking for “something different” from the mainstream are increasingly finding
our programs online. Those who do are discovering the joy of Ukrainian music
and folklore, and learning about <st1:country -region="-region" w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Ukraine</st1:place></st1:country> and its history in the
process. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt;">If
you’re looking for Ukrainian shows to listen to, check out the list below.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14pt;">Ukrainian Radio Programs across <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:country -region="-region" w:st="on">Canada</st1:country></st1:place><br /><o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<st1:state w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on"><b><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14pt;">Quebec</span></b></st1:place></st1:state><b><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14pt;">: <o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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Time <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt;">Producer</span></b><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt;">: </span><span class="unnamed1"><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt;"><span class="unnamed1"><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt;">Simon Kouklewsky.</span></span> </span></span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt;">Content</span></b><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt;">: Variety show
featuring local and international news, politics, Ukrainian Catholic and
Ukrainian Orthodox religious broadcasts, interviews, and Ukrainian music.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt;">Details</span></b><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt;">:</span><span class="unnamed1"><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt;"> Saturdays at 6-7
pm EST on <st1:personname w:st="on">A</st1:personname>M1280 CFMB <st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Montreal</st1:place></st1:city> </span></span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt;">Live stream & station information</span></b><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt;">:</span><span class="unnamed1"><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt;"> <a href="http://www.cfmb.ca/"><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">www.cfmb.ca</span></a></span></span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt;">Podcast/program information</span></b><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt;">: </span><span class="unnamed1"><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt;"><a href="http://www.ukrainiantime.com/"><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">www.ukrainiantime.com</span></a><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt;">Program:</span></b><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt;"> Ukrainian Hour</span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt;"></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt;">Producer & Host</span></b><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt;">:</span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt;"> Irena Bell</span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt;">Content</span></b><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt;">:</span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt;"> Variety program featuring
contemporary and traditional music, news, interviews, reports, cultural
curiosities, and more.</span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt;">Details:</span></b><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt;"> Sundays 6-7pm EST on CJLL 97.9FM CHIN Radio <st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Ottawa</st1:place></st1:city> </span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt;">Live stream & station/program information:</span></b><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt;"><a href="http://www.chinradioottawa.com/"><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">www.chinradioottawa.com</span></a></span><br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt;">Program</span></b><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt;">:</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt;"> Radio Meest<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt;">Host</span></b><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt;">:</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt;"> Yuri Kus and guest hosts</span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt;">Content</span></b><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt;">:</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt;"> Live variety program featuring music, local and
international news, interviews and community events. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt;">Details</span></b><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt;">:</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt;"> Daily 9-10 pm EST on CIRV 88.9FM <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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information:</span></b><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt;"> <a href="http://www.cirvfm.com/" target="_blank">www.cirvfm.com</a> <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt;">Program</span></b><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt;">:</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt;"> Prometheus <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt;">Host</span></b><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt;">:</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt;"> Roman
Halushchak<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt;">Content</span></b><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt;">:</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt;"> Live
info-political program with news from <st1:country -region="-region" w:st="on">Ukraine</st1:country>,
<st1:country -region="-region" w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Canada</st1:place></st1:country>
and around the world, as well as weekly segments about health and music.</span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt;">Details</span></b><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt;">:</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt;"> Sundays 4-5 pm
EST on <st1:personname w:st="on">A</st1:personname>M1540 Chin Radio <st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Toronto</st1:place></st1:city></span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on"><b><span style="font-family: "arial"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Windsor</span></b></st1:place></st1:city><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt;">Program</span></b><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt;">: Sounds of <st1:country -region="-region" w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Ukraine</st1:place></st1:country><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt;">Host</span></b><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt;">: Karen Momotiuk<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt;">Content</span></b><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt;">: Variety music
program featuring Ukrainian folk classics and dance music <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt;">Details</span></b><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt;">: Saturdays 11am
- 12pm EST on 99.1FM CJ<st1:personname w:st="on">A</st1:personname>M University
of Windsor campus radio <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt;">Live stream & station/program information</span></b><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt;">: <a href="http://www.cjam.ca/"><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">www.cjam.ca</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt;">Program</span></b><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt;">: Nasha Kasha</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt;">Host</span></b><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt;">: Stefan Andrusiak</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt;">Content</span></b><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt;">: Talk show featuring interesting guests from the local Ukrainian community. </span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt;">Details</span></b><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt;">: Sunday 5:30-6pm EST<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> on </span></span></span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">CHRW-FM Western University </span></span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">campus radio. </span></span></span></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt;">Live stream & station</span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt;">/</span></b></span></b><b><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt;">program</span> </span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt;">information</span></b><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt;">: <a href="http://www.radiowestern.ca/" target="_blank">http://www.radiowestern.ca</a></span></div>
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<st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on"><i><b><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-style: normal;">Portage</span></b></i></st1:place></st1:city><i><b><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-style: normal;"> La
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt;">Program</span></b><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt;">: Saturday
Night Polka Party<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt;">Host</span></b><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt;">: Ryan
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt;">Content</span></b><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt;">:
Zabava-type program featuring polkas and old-tyme <span class="s141"><span style="mso-ansi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">fiddle and dance </span></span>music
by artists from around <st1:country -region="-region" w:st="on">Canada</st1:country>
and the <st1:country -region="-region" w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">United States</st1:place></st1:country>,
as well as young local up-and-coming polka bands.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt;">Live stream & station</span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt;">/</span></b></span></b><b><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt;">program</span> </span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt;">information</span></b><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt;">: </span></span></span><a href="http://www.cfryradio.ca/" target="_blank">www.cfryradio.ca</a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on"><b><span style="font-family: "arial"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Winnipeg</span></b></st1:place></st1:city><b><span style="font-family: "arial"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt;">Program</span></b><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt;">: Ukrainian
Radio Program <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt;">Hosts</span></b><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt;">: Ivas
Zulyniak (Mon & Tue), Marta Skrypnyk (Wed) Ness Michaels (Fri & Sat)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt;">Content</span></b><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt;">: <st1:personname w:st="on">A</st1:personname>n eclectic mix of the newest pop and rock music
from <st1:country -region="-region" w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Ukraine</st1:place></st1:country>,
dance favourites, folk classics, Zabava music and more.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt;">Details</span></b><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt;">: Monday-Friday 7-8pm CST Saturdays 5-6pm on CKJS <st1:personname w:st="on">A</st1:personname>M810 <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt;">Live stream & station information</span></b><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt;">: <a href="http://www.ckjs.com/"><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">http://www.ckjs.com/</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<st1:state w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on"><b><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14pt;">Saskatchewan</span></b></st1:place></st1:state><b><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14pt;">:<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on"><b><span style="font-family: "arial"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Regina</span></b></st1:place></st1:city><b><span style="font-family: "arial"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt;">Program</span></b><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt;">:</span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt;"> Muzyka <st1:country -region="-region" w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Ukraine</st1:place></st1:country></span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt;">Hosts</span></b><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt;">: </span><span style="color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt;">Yars Lozowchuk</span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt;"> and Ginger Merk <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt;">Content</span></b><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt;">: Musical variety
show featuring contemporary music from <st1:country -region="-region" w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Ukraine</st1:place></st1:country><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt;">Details</span></b><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt;">:</span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt;"> Wednesdays 3-4pm CST on CJTR 91.3FM community radio <st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Regina</st1:place></st1:city></span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt;">Live stream & station information</span></b><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt;">:</span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt;"> <a href="http://www.cjtr.ca/"><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">www.cjtr.ca</span></a></span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<st1:state w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14pt;">Alberta</span></b></st1:place></st1:state><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14pt;">:<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "arial"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Canmore<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt;">Program</span></b><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt;">:</span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt;"> Zabava Program</span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt;">Host</span></b><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt;">:</span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt;"> Steven Chwok</span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt;">Content</span></b><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt;">: <st1:personname w:st="on">A</st1:personname> mix of traditional country-style Ukrainian
Canadian dance music from the prairies and more contemporary fare.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt;">Details</span></b><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt;">:</span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt;"> Sundays 7-9pm MST on <st1:personname w:st="on">A</st1:personname>M840
CFCW <st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Edmonton</st1:place></st1:city> </span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt;">Live stream & station information</span></b><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt;">:</span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt;"> <a href="http://www.cfcw.com/"><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">www.cfcw.com</span></a></span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt;">Program</span></b><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt;">: BUC Program [Brotherhood of
Ukrainian Catholics, <st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Edmonton</st1:place></st1:city>
Eparchy]</span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt;">Host</span></b><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt;">: Roman Kravec</span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt;">Content</span></b><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt;">: Ukrainian Catholic perspective
featuring news on "Our Church" from <st1:country -region="-region" w:st="on">Ukraine</st1:country>,
<st1:country -region="-region" w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Canada</st1:place></st1:country>,
and local as well as music and interviews primarily (but not exclusively)
religious in nature.</span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt;">Details</span></b><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt;">: Sunday 6 -6:30 pm MST on </span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt;">101.7FM
World FM</span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt;">Live stream & station
information</span></b><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt;">: </span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt;">www.worldfm.ca<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt;">Program</span></b><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt;">: Vechirnia Hodyna</span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt;">Host</span></b><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt;">: Father Gabriel Haber OSBM (Order
of Saint Basil the Great in <st1:country -region="-region" w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Canada</st1:place></st1:country>)
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt;">Content</span></b><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt;">: Gospel reading for the day, with
commentary by Father Gabriel, and Ukrainian religious (primarily classical
choral) music.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt;">Details</span></b><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt;">: Sunday 6:30-7 pm MST </span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt;">101.7FM
World FM</span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt;">Live stream & station
information</span></b><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt;">: </span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt;">www.worldfm.ca<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt;">Program</span></b><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt;">: Sounds
Ukrainian <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt;">Hosts</span></b><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt;">: Orest and
Lada<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt;">Content</span></b><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt;">: <st1:personname w:st="on">A</st1:personname>n eclectic mix of the newest in Ukrainian music:
rock, pop, alternative, hip hop, club, classical, experimental, folk, blues,
jazz and more. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt;">Details</span></b><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt;">: Fridays
7-8:30 pm MST FM88 CJSR Radio<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>University of <st1:personname w:st="on">A</st1:personname>lberta campus radio<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt;">Live stream & station information</span></b><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt;">: www.cjsr.com <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<st1:state w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on"><b><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14pt;">British Columbia</span></b></st1:place></st1:state><b><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14pt;">:<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on"><b><span style="font-family: "arial"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Nanaimo</span></b></st1:place></st1:city><b><span style="font-family: "arial"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt;">Program</span></b><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt;">: Nash Holos
Ukrainian Roots Radio <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt;">Hosts</span></b><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt;">: Paulette
“Pawlina” Demchuk MacQuarrie, Oksana Poberezhnyk<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt;">Content</span></b><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt;">: Variety show
featuring Ukrainian music, interviews, Ukrainian Food Flair, Ukraine Jewish Heritage, cultural curiosities, and more. First hour with Pawlina in English, second hour with Oksana in Ukrainian.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt;">Details</span></b><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt;">: Wednesdays
11am-1 pm, Radio Malaspina 101.7FM. <br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Live stream & station information</b>:
<a href="http://www.chly.ca/"><span style="color: #336699;">www.chly.ca</span></a> <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt;">Podcast/archives/program information</span></b><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt;">: <a href="http://www.nashholos.com/"><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">www.nashholos.com</span></a></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;"><b>Facebook:</b> <a href="https://www.facebook.com/NashHolos/" target="_blank">https://www.facebook.com/NashHolos </a></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;"><b>Twitter:</b> <a href="https://twitter.com/NashHolos" target="_blank">@NashHolos</a></span></span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;"> </span>
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<st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on"><b><span style="font-family: "arial"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Vancouver</span></b></st1:place></st1:city><b><span style="font-family: "arial"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt;">Program</span></b><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt;">: Четверта Хвиля (</span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "verdana" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">Chetverta Khvilya)</span></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt;">Host</span></b><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt;">: Pavlo Manugevych</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt;">Content</span></b><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt;">: Variety show
featuring Ukrainian music, interviews, and more.</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt;">Details</span></b><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt;">: Saturdays 11am -12pm CJSF 90.1fm</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt;">Live stream & station information</span></b><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt;">: </span></div>
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt;">Facebook: </span></b><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt;">https://www.facebook.com/UkrainianCanada/</span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt;">:</span><br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt;">Program</span></b><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt;">: Nash Holos
Ukrainian Roots Radio <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt;">Host</span></b><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt;">: Paulette
“Pawlina” Demchuk MacQuarrie<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt;">Content</span></b><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt;">: Variety show
featuring Ukrainian music, interviews, Ukrainian Food Flair, Ukraine News
Outlook, cultural curiosities, and more.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt;">Details</span></b><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt;">: <st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Vancouver</st1:place></st1:city> broadcast:
Sundays 5-6 pm PST on AM1320 CHMB Vancouver. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21847606.post-53041326552635236502017-05-12T14:00:00.000-07:002017-05-12T14:00:01.108-07:00Countdown to Eurovision 2017 - Ukraine's entry as second-time host country Since Ukraine won first place at the <a href="https://eurovision.tv/" target="_blank">Eurovision Song Contest</a> in 2016, by tradition Ukraine will host the music competition this year.<br />
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Eurovision 2017 will take place in Kyiv on May 13, hosted by Ukrainian national broadcaster Timur Miroshnychenko. Ukraine will be represented by Ukrainian rock band O. Torvald with the song <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9KWZ4CKapPA" target="_blank">Time</a>.<br />
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The Eurovison contest has long been the subject of criticism regarding both its musical and political content. And with last year’s winner, Eurovision once again was accused of “political messaging.”<br />
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Critics considered Jamala's song a political jab at Russia, despite containing no reference to Russia’s current aggression against Ukraine. Jamala’s song, 1944, is the story of the forcible removal by Stalinist troops of Crimean Tatars, including her grandmother, from Crimea during WWII. But the European Broadcasting Union cleared the song, saying it contained no political message.<br />
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Nevertheless, the historical tension between Ukraine and Russia at Eurovision was only exacerbated by Jamala’s win last year, and has continued unabated.<br />
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This year Russia pulled out of the competition, in a thinly veiled attempt to poison Ukraine’s relations with the European Broadcasting Union (EBU), which runs the contest.<br />
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The Russian entrant, a wheelchair-bound singer named Yuliya Samoylova, was banned from entering Ukraine for three years after her tour of Crimea in 2015 (deemed illegal by Ukraine), and her obvious support for Putin’s aggression against Ukraine.<br />
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The Russian entry was a last-minute surprise, and did not sit well with Eurovision fans. Many saw it as a cynical ploy to avoid a recent trend of being booed by the live audience, and shared their displeasure widely on social media.<br />
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Surprisingly, EBU officials have condemned <i>Ukraine </i>for imposing the travel ban against Samoylova., and even threatened to ban Ukraine from future competitions.<br />
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It is outrageous that the EBU would hold Ukraine responsible for Russia’s belligerence and find fault with any country upholding its own laws.<br />
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Russia was graciously presented with two solutions which would allow it to participate: either select a different contestant (who didn't break Ukrainian law) or have Samoylova (who did break Ukrainian law) broadcast her song via video link and thus remain in the competition.<br />
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It is hardly Ukraine’s fault that Russia refused both options, choosing to act in bad faith instead.<br />
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But the show must go on, and this year's Eurovision song contest will take place as scheduled in Kyiv on May 13th.<br />
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The Eurovision Song Contest will be broadcast in the U.S. for a second consecutive year on Viacom’s Logo. The three-and-a-half-hour 2017 Grand Final will air live and commercial free on Saturday, May 13 at 12pm Pacific Time.<br />
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Here is Ukraine’s 2017 entry, Time, to be performed by the Ukrainian rock band O. Torvald.<br />
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To hear more about Ukraine’s participation and musical entries in Eurovision, download or live stream the April 29, 2017 Vancouver edition of Nash Holos Ukrainian Roots Radio <a href="https://www.nashholos.com/nash-holos-vancouver-2017-0429/" target="_blank">here</a>.<br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21847606.post-41126064644033374612017-05-12T07:30:00.000-07:002017-05-12T07:30:04.045-07:00Countdown to Eurovision 2017 - Ukraine wins first place again in 2016Last year, after taking a year off from the <a href="https://eurovision.tv/" target="_blank">Eurovision Song Contest</a>, Ukraine placed first for the second time with the song <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wNECV2h-y58" target="_blank">1944</a> by Crimean Tatar singer Jamala.<br />
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Jamala not only won first place for Ukraine again—her song, 1944, is Eurovision’s highest-ranking song in the contest's 61-year history.<br />
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In addition, with Jamala’s win last year, Ukraine became the first Eastern European country to win the contest twice.<br />
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Susanna Jamaladinova was born in Osh, Kirghiz SSR, to a Crimean Tatar father and an Armenian mother. Her Crimean Tatar ancestors had been forcefully resettled from Crimea to the central Asian republic under Joseph Stalin, during World War II.<br />
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Upon Ukraine's independence in 1991, her family returned to Crimea. Her parents and extended family still live there, but she has not been home since shortly after Russia’s annexation of the peninsula in 2014.<br />
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Ironically, with last year’s winner, Eurovision has been accused of breaking the rules with Jamala’s because of its supposed political messaging, which many have said is against Eurovision’s rules.<br />
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Notwithstanding the fact that the song was about a historical event in the distant past—that being the Kremlin’s 1944 deportation of the Crimean Tatars—and did not specifically refer to Russia’s recent illegal annexation of Crimea and invasion of Ukraine. It was based on historical events experienced by her great-grandmother during that genocidal time.<br />
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Unsurprisingly, it was Russia that complained the most vociferously, and some western media unwittingly (or perhaps not) jumped on the Kremlin’s bandwagon.<br />
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Fortunately, and wisely in my opinion, Eurovision did not heed calls to disqualify Jamala’s winning song 1944, which she composed herself. <br />
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With Jamala’s win, Ukraine became the first Eastern European country to win the contest twice.<br />
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Here is Jamala with 1944, the first-place winner in the 2016 Eurovision Song Contest, </div>
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To hear about all of Ukraine's top ten place finishes in Eurovision, check out the podcast of the April 29th, 2017 Vancouver edition of Nash Holos Ukrainian Roots Radio <a href="https://www.nashholos.com/nash-holos-vancouver-2017-0429/" target="_blank">here</a>.
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21847606.post-41424075702397586022017-05-11T16:30:00.001-07:002017-05-11T16:30:17.746-07:00Countdown to Eurovision 2017 - Ukraine conspicuously absent in 2015In 2015, Ukraine took a year off from the <a href="https://eurovision.tv/" target="_blank">Eurovision Song Contest.</a><br />
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After an extremely successful and uninterrupted run in Eurovision, Ukrainian national broadcaster, NTU, announced that Ukraine would take a year off from Eurovision, missing out on the 60th edition in Vienna, Austria.<br />
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NTU cited the current financial, political, and military strain that the country was (and still is) feeling, since the invasion of Ukraine, annexation of Ukrainian territories by Russia, the crash of flight MH17, and Moscow’s support for Novorossiya.<br />
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Supporting NTU in this decision were numerous famous singers of Ukraine, who refused the opportunity to participate in Eurovision in Ukraine’s current state.<br />
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“We consulted with many artists,” said Vlad Baginskiy, the producer of creative association of music programs NTU, "and they said they would not take part in the competition, with only those reasons that now is not the time for fun. And the money that would be spent on the national final of Eurovision 2015 will be better spent on more important needs."<br />
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But in 2016, in a sweet after-note, Ukraine came back to Eurovision with a vengeance, to win first place.<br />
<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21847606.post-24273110625500441452017-05-11T12:00:00.000-07:002017-05-11T12:00:02.968-07:00Countdown to Eurovision 2017 - Ukraine's 2014 entryIn 2014, Ukraine placed 6th in the <a href="https://eurovision.tv/" target="_blank">Eurovision Song Contest</a> with <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=slHboKF9PIQ" target="_blank">Tick Tock</a>, performed by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mariya_Yaremchuk" target="_blank">Mariya Yaremchuk</a>.<br />
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Mariya is the daughter of well-known singer and composer Nazari Yaremchuk, who died of stomach cancer in 1995, when Mariya was just 2 years old.<br />
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Born in the western Ukraine city of Chernivtsy in 1993, she surprised many in 2012 when she expressed "moral support" for the pro-Russian party of the ousted president Viktor Yanukovych.<br />
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Prior to the contest she explained her comments as an effort to reunite the long-divided country, and insisted she is apolitical and would be representing some 46 million Ukrainians in Denmark.<br />
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In August of 2014 she joined 3 other Eurovision winners on a tour to the eastern front … the Bring Peace tour. She joined Ruslana, who conspicuously supported the Maidan protest movement from the get-go, as did Zlata Ognevich, who placed 3rd in 2013.<br />
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Also joining them was Kyiv-born Anastasiya Prikhodko who won first place for Russia in 2009, amid considerable controversy, as you can imagine.<br />
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Prior to the Bring Peace tour, Prikhodko apparently lost her ethnic ambivalence ... and likewise Mariya evidently changed her political allegiance to become a staunch supporter of Ukrainian independence and those risking life and limb to secure it.<br />
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Here is Mariya Yarmchuk and the Eurovision 2014 entry for Ukraine, Tick-Tock.<br />
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To hear about all of Ukraine's top ten place finishes in Eurovision, check out the podcast of the April 29th, 2017 Vancouver edition of Nash Holos Ukrainian Roots Radio <a href="https://www.nashholos.com/nash-holos-vancouver-2017-0429/" target="_blank">here</a>.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21847606.post-65657870712390272722017-05-11T07:30:00.000-07:002017-05-11T07:30:06.148-07:00Countdown to Eurovision 2017 - Ukraine's entry for 2013<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zlata_Ognevich" target="_blank">Zlata Ognievych</a> represented Ukraine in the 2013 <a href="https://eurovision.tv/" target="_blank">Eurovision Song Contest </a>with her song <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BMxpv8naRd8" target="_blank">Gravity</a>, which placed third.<br />
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Zlata Ognevich made her first attempt to enter the Eurovision Song Contest for Ukraine in 2010 with a song called "Tiny Island" which placed fifth in the run-up. That year <a href="https://nashholos.blogspot.com/2017/05/countdown-to-eurovision-2017-ukraines_9.html" target="_blank">Alyosha represented Ukraine</a> with a song called Sweet People, and placed 10th.<br />
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In 2011 Zlata made her second unsuccessful attempt to represent Ukraine, this time with a song in the Ukrainian language, called "The Kukushka." She placed second in the run-up, losing out to <a href="https://nashholos.blogspot.com/2017/05/countdown-to-eurovision-2017-ukraines_77.html" target="_blank">Mika Newton who represented Ukraine</a> with a song called Angel, which took 4th place in Eurovision 2011.<br />
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Ognevich was born in 1986 in Murmansk to Ukrainian parents. She grew up in the Crimean city of Sudak, in the south of Ukraine. Five months after the March 2014 annexation of Crimea by Russia, Ognevich called the annexation "a very painful tragedy" and stated that her parents, who continue to live in Crimea, would not obtain Russian citizenship.<br />
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Ognevich currently resides in Kyiv, where she has lived since age 18. She moved there to pursue a higher music education, and graduated from the Rheingold M. Glière Music College.<br />
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During her third year at Rheingold she began working with live bands and did her own promotional work.<br />
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She’s since been quite productive as well as patriotic. Her many musical recordings include her own version of Ukraine's national anthem "Shche ne vmerla Ukraina" released in 2014.<br />
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That fall, she took a run at politics. In October 2014 she was elected to the Verkhovna Rada (Parliament of Ukraine), where she focused on cultural issues and intellectual property. A year later, she resigned, thoroughly disillusioned with politics.<br />
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In 2013, Zlata Ognevich co-hosted the Junior Eurovision Song Contest with Ukrainian national broadcaster Timur Miroshnychenko. Timur will host the Eurovision Song Contest 2017 in Kyiv on May 13th.<br />
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Here is Zlata Ognevich with her 2013 Eurovision entry, Gravity.<br />
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To hear about all of Ukraine's top ten place finishes in Eurovision, check out the podcast of the April 29th, 2017 Vancouver edition of Nash Holos Ukrainian Roots Radio <a href="https://www.nashholos.com/nash-holos-vancouver-2017-0429/" target="_blank">here</a>.
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21847606.post-90970313669395091292017-05-10T16:30:00.000-07:002017-05-10T16:30:12.289-07:00Countdown to Eurovision 2017 - Ukraine's entry for 2011<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mika_Newton" target="_blank">Mika Newto</a>n represented Ukraine at the 2011 <a href="https://eurovision.tv/" target="_blank">Eurovision Song Contest</a>, winning fourth place with her song <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g_xRmEkR6KE" target="_blank">Angel</a>.<br />
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She was born Oksana Stefanivna Grytsay (Оксана Стефанівна Грицай) on March 5, 1986, in Burshtyn, western part of Ukraine. She grew up in Ukraine, and currently resides in Los Angeles, California, where she is pursuing an acting as well as a singing career.<br />
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Her first name, Mika, is a derivative from Mick Jagger's first name. Newton stands for a new tone.<br />
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As a young child, she taught herself to sing by imitating famous artists she heard on the radio. A natural-born performer, she would beg her mother to invite friends over so she could have an audience to perform for.<br />
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By age nine, she was entering regional voice competitions.<br />
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Inspired by a video she saw of Michael Jackson, she decided to enrol in performing arts school. At the age of 16, Mika moved to Kyiv, where she studied vocals at the College of Circus and Variety Arts.<br />
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She continued to compete in local and international talent contests, more often than not taking first place and eventually attracting the attention of music industry talent scouts. At 16, she was signed with the record label Falyosa Family Factory.<br />
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Before the Eurovision Song Contest, Mika released two albums. She also provided theme songs to a number of popular Ukrainian and Russian films and television shows, earning herself the nickname, the “Queen of Soundtracks.”<br />
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Soon JK Music Group invited Mika to Los Angeles for a two-week recording session, where she also had the opportunity to perform in front of Grammy Award-winning producer Randy Jackson.<br />
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After winning 4th-place in Eurovision Song Contest 2011, Mika Newton signed a contract with JK Music Group and Randy Jackson's Friendship Collective. In June 2011 she moved to Los Angeles, where she started developing her music career as a pop-rock singer in the USA.<br />
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In the Eurovision finals on May14, 2011 Newton was accompanied in her performance by <a href="http://simonova.tv/en/story" target="_blank">sand-artist Kseniya Simonova</a>,who was the 2009 winner of Ukraine's Got Talent.<br />
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Here is Mika Newton and her 4th place finish for Eurovision 2011, Angel.<br />
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To hear about all of Ukraine's top ten place finishes in Eurovision, check out the podcast of the April 29th, 2017 Vancouver edition of Nash Holos Ukrainian Roots Radio <a href="https://www.nashholos.com/nash-holos-vancouver-2017-0429/" target="_blank">here</a>.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21847606.post-2087551674490727632017-05-10T12:30:00.000-07:002017-05-10T12:30:49.267-07:00Countdown to Eurovision 2017 - Ukraine's entry for 2010 delivers environmentally-charged message Alyosha represented Ukraine at the <a href="https://eurovision.tv/" target="_blank">Eurovision Song Contes</a>t in 2010 with her song "<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=20CPPV_uwmE" target="_blank">Sweet People</a>", which came in 10th.<br />
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Alyosha was born Olena Kucher on 14 May 1986 in Zaporizhia) ... two weeks after the Chornobyl disaster. Her song Sweet People reflects concern both for the effects of this disaster and for the world environment. She said at the time that she hoped her song and the music video would reach out to policy and decision makers, and "prompt them to take action on global environment."<br />
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The music video was shot in the abandoned city of Pripyat, Ukraine from April 19 to April 21, 2010.<br />
The director, Victor Skuratovsky, insisted on having no special effects and no artificial set in the video, in order to better reflect the raw reality of the consequences of this disaster.<br />
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Parts of the video were shot in an abandoned high school. Aloysha described it as looking as though the kids had left the classrooms in such a hurry that they turned over their desks as they ran out of the room.<br />
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On the week ending June 13, 2010, "Sweet People" debuted at number 73 on the Swiss Singles Chart and stayed there for one week. Earlier, it made number 15 on the Ukrainian–Russian chart on March 28, 2010.<br />
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Alyosha started a program called Ecovision, which she hoped would bring the environment to the attention of world leaders and galvanize them into action. H<a href="http://www.alyosha.com.ua/en" target="_blank">er current website</a> does not indicate that her environmental concerns at the time turned into long-term activism; however, she certainly cannot be faulted for raising public awareness about Chornobyl, nor for bringing in another top-ten win for Ukraine at Eurovision.<br />
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Here is Alyosha and her 2010 Eurovision entry, Sweet People.<br />
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To hear about all of Ukraine's top ten place finishes in Eurovision, check out the podcast of the April 29th, 2017 Vancouver edition of Nash Holos Ukrainian Roots Radio <a href="https://www.nashholos.com/nash-holos-vancouver-2017-0429/" target="_blank">here</a>.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0