Nash Holos Ukrainian Roots Radio Podcast

Part 2. Continue. Part 1 was on May 13 th One summer I was traveling to Ukraine. I visited my motherhood city - Ternopil. There I met my friend, professor of History, Volodymyr Okarynskyi. We talk a bit about our city and about his book about history of city. Депортація татар Hosted by Oksana Poberezhnyk. In Ukrainian. Ukrainian Roots Radio airs live in Nanaimo on Wednesdays from 11am-12:30pm PST...

An all-music show featuring an eclectic mix of contemporary and traditional Ukrainian tracks • Ukrainian Proverb of the Week • Other Items of Interest • Plenty of Great Ukrainian Music! Join me - Pawlina - for the Vancouver edition of Nash Holos Ukrainian Roots Radio—every Saturday at 6pm PST on AM1320 CHMB and streaming at www.am1320.com. Reminder: If you’re in the Vancouver listening area you ca...

In Episode 2, we introduced four prominent Jews on Israel’s currency who were born in Ukraine. Hayim Nahman Bialik, Ze’ev Jabotinsky, Levi Eshkol, and Golda Meir. In this episode, four more natives of Ukraine on Israel’s currency: Moshe Sharett, Israel’s second prime minister; Nobel Prize laureate Shmuel Yosef Agnon; Yitzhak Ben-Zvi, the second President of Israel; and renowned Hebrew poet Saul Tc...

• Ukrainian Jewish Heritage features four more natives of Ukraine depicted on Israeli currency • Ukrainian Proverb of the Week • Great Ukrainian music! Hosted by Pawlina, in English. Ukrainian Roots Radio airs live in Nanaimo on Wednesdays from 11am-12:30pm PST on CHLY 101.7FM, broadcasting to the north and central Vancouver Island, Gulf Islands, Sunshine Coast, northwest Washington State and Grea...

One summer I was traveling to Ukraine. I visited my motherhood city - Ternopil. There I met my friend, professor of History, Volodymyr Okarynskyi. We talk a bit about our city and about his book about history of city. Host: Oksana Poberezhnyk. In Ukrainian. Ukrainian Roots Radio airs live in Nanaimo on Wednesdays from 11am-12:30pm PST on CHLY 101.7FM, broadcasting to the north and central Vancouve...

Ukrainian Jewish Heritage: Part 3 of our series on the currencies of Israel and Ukraine highlight four more natives of Ukraine on Israel's currency • Victor's Vignettes: Baba's sayings • Knyzhka Corner Book Review: Sunflowers Under Fire, the memoir of a remarkable Ukrainian woman as told to her daughter and written by her grandaughter, a BC author • Ukrainian Proverb of the Week • Other Items of I...

Oksana hosts this half hour in Ukrainian, honouring mothers. Ukrainian Roots Radio airs live in Nanaimo on Wednesdays from 11am-12:30pm PST on CHLY 101.7FM, broadcasting to the north and central Vancouver Island, Gulf Islands, Sunshine Coast, northwest Washington State and Greater Vancouver listening areas. You can hear the Vancouver edition with Pawlina on Saturdays from 6-7pm on air at AM1320 CH...

Knyzhka Corner Book Review: Our Familiar Hunger, winner of 2020 Kobzar Literary Award, by a BC author • Interview with Ukrainian American singer Andriana Gnap about her music, her life and her most recent CD album, Пісні з Дому (Songs from Home) • Ukrainian Proverb of the Week • Other Items of Interest • Great Ukrainian Music! Join me - Pawlina - for the Vancouver edition of Nash Holos Ukrainian R...

The State of Israel was created and built by Jewish settlers who came mainly from Eastern Europe. Among them were quite a few natives of Ukraine, then ruled by the Russian & Austro-Hungarian Empires. Eight natives of Ukraine have figured prominently on Israel’s currencies over the years. In Part two of this series on the currencies of Ukraine and Israel, four prominent Jews whose influence has...

Oksana Poberezhnyk hosts this half hour in Ukrainian, which recalls the world's worst nuclear disaster in Chornobyl (Chernobyl) 34 years ago, on April 26, 1986. Ukrainian Roots Radio airs live in Nanaimo on Wednesdays from 11am-12:30pm PST on CHLY 101.7FM, broadcasting to the north and central Vancouver Island, Gulf Islands, Sunshine Coast, northwest Washington State and Greater Vancouver listenin...

On Ukrainian Jewish Heritage: Part 2 of our series on the currencies of Israel and Ukraine features four natives of Ukraine on Israeli banknotes and coins, including Golda Meir and early 20th century poets and revolutionaries • Feature interview: Gene Berezovski, co-founder of Ukraine War Amps tells us the latest in UWA's outstanding humanitarian aid for Ukrainian war veterans ... and an exciting...

Oksana hosts this half hour in Ukrainian, featuring hayivky and other seasonal songs. Ukrainian Roots Radio airs live in Nanaimo on Wednesdays from 11am-12:30pm PST on CHLY 101.7FM, broadcasting to the north and central Vancouver Island, Gulf Islands, Sunshine Coast, northwest Washington State and Greater Vancouver listening areas. You can hear the Vancouver edition with Pawlina on Saturdays from...

Ukrainian Proverb of the Week • Great Ukrainian Music featuring beautful Easter songs and hymns. Ukrainian Roots Radio airs live in Nanaimo on Wednesdays from 11am-12:30pm PST on CHLY 101.7FM, broadcasting to the north and central Vancouver Island, Gulf Islands, Sunshine Coast, northwest Washington State and Greater Vancouver listening areas. Hosted by Pawlina and Oksana Poberezhnyk. You can hear...

A musical celebration of Ukrainian Easter • Ukrainian Proverb of the Week • Other items of Interest • Great Ukrainian Music! Join me - Pawlina - for the Vancouver edition of Nash Holos Ukrainian Roots Radio—every Saturday at 6pm PST on AM1320 CHMB and streaming at www.am1320.com. Reminder: If you’re in the Vancouver listening area you can hear the Nanaimo edition on Wednesdays from 11am-12:30pm on...

Today's show recalls Easter and Passover during Soviet times, and some eerie parallels to today's COVID19 lockdown. Ukrainian Proverb of the week, other items of interest, and beautiful Easter and Passover music. Join me - Pawlina - for the Vancouver edition of Nash Holos Ukrainian Roots Radio—every Saturday at 6pm PST on AM1320 CHMB Vancouver. Reminder: If you’re in the Vancouver listening area y...

Banknotes and coins are not only means of payment, they are also a symbol of sovereignty. Nothing confirms sovereign statehood like its own unique, identifiable and stable currency. And arguably, no two countries know this better than Ukraine and Israel. This is a story about two currencies, two countries, and two peoples with a long and closely intertwined history. The hyrnvia, currency of Ukrain...

A lighthearted episode featuring Ukrainian jokes & songs in both languages. Ukrainian comedians and Luba Goy of the Royal Canadian Air Farce. Ukrainian Proverb of the Week and other items of interest. Take a musical trip down memory lane with Shoom, The Kubasonics, The Ukrainian Old Timers, Mickey and Bunny and the Ukrainian Prairie Band. Reminisce about life on a prairie farm with its id...

More Ukrainian humour and music in English as well as the usual Ukrainian Proverb of the Week! Take a trip down memory lane with Shoom, The Kubasonics, The Ukrainian Old Timers , Mickey and Bunny and the Ukrainian Prairie Band. Reminisce about life on a prairie farm with its idyllic and less than idyllic moments, join a crazy Ukrainian house party and get primed for one of your own! Дай Боже!...

Oksana Poberezhnyk.hosts this first hour of the Nanaimo edition of Nash Holos. She brings you some Ukrainian humour to celebrate April Fool's Day 2020! Ukrainian jokes & songs, and a laugh track by Luba Goy of the Royal Canadian Air Farce (in English). Ukrainian Roots Radio airs live in Nanaimo on Wednesdays from 11am-12:30pm PST on CHLY 101.7FM, broadcasting to the north and central Vancouver...

On Ukrainian Jewish Heritage, a look at how Ukraine and Israel honour each other's people through recognition on their respective banknotes and coins. In Part 1, the history of the currencies of Ukraine and Israel. Part 2 will feature some of the figures depicted on the two countries' respective currencies. • A look at the friendship between two 19th century literary giants with personal experienc...

After a career working as a civil engineer in Paulina Zeltisky retired and wrote her memoirs. Recently she kindly agreed to an interview on Nash Holos to discuss her book and share some details of her amazing life, including a daring and dangerous defection, running across the tarmac with two small children in tow, at Gander Airport in Newfoundland, Canada in 1971. In Part 1, Paulina described the...

Oksana shares the finale of audio theatre presentation of the famous and beloved poem Marusia Churai by celebrated Ukrainian poetess Lina Kostenko • Pawlina and Oksana discuss this week's choice for Ukrainian Proverb of the Week. Ukrainian Roots Radio airs live in Nanaimo on Wednesdays from 11am-12:30pm PST on CHLY 101.7FM, broadcasting to the north and central Vancouver Island, Gulf Islands, Suns...

A nod to Ukraine's national bard Taras Shevchenko with a trip down memory lane and a poetry recitation from long, long ago • Ukrainian Proverb of the Week • Great Ukrainian Music! Ukrainian Roots Radio airs live in Nanaimo on Wednesdays from 11am-12:30pm PST on CHLY 101.7FM, broadcasting to the north and central Vancouver Island, Gulf Islands, Sunshine Coast, northwest Washington State and Greater...

Poetry of Ukrainian poet and dissident Lina Kostenko, in honour of her 90th birthday on March 19. Recited by Katya Yaremyn of Victoria (in Ukrainian). • Music with lyrics of Lina Kostenko performed by Oksana Mukha and Iryna Bilyk • Ukrainian Proverb of the Week • Great Ukrainian Music to take our minds off the worries surrounding the global COVID-19 pandemic. Join me - Pawlina - for the Vancouver...

On Ukrainian Jewish Heritage, an interview with Paulina Zelitsky, who defected from the USSR to Canada in a daring escape at Gander airport with her children in 1971. In Part 1, we learned why Paulina felt her life was in danger while working on a Soviet naval base in Cuba, and becoming privy to the top-secret operations of the little-known second Cuban Missile Crisis in the late 1960s. Defection...