(JTA) — As Ukraine’s Jews face a future awash in uncertainty, some are turning to a realm they can control — the language and rituals that define their identity. Rabbi Irina Gritsevskaya, who leads ...

How could they? Like the vast majority of Jews in Ukraine, none of them speaks the country’s official language. Russian has long been the first language for a wide swath of Ukrainians ...

Russian is traditionally the dominant language of Odessa, as in many other parts of Ukraine. But over the last three years, ...

In Russian, the primary language of organized Jewish life in Ukraine until recently, there is no such sound, so the book has long been known there as an “agada.” Ukrainian does have an “h ...

BBC Bitesize wanted to learn some Ukrainian phrases that conveyed hope and positivity during difficult times. They were provided by members of the community group, including Anna and Father Taras ...

The provisions of the document stipulate that all citizens now have to use the Ukrainian language in all the spheres of their life KIEV, April 25. /TASS/. Verkhovna Rada members adopted the law ...

So was perhaps the most Odesa book of all Odesa books, “Odesa Stories” by Isaac Babel, possibly the greatest modernist prose writer to work in the Russian language. In 2023, Ukraine adopted ...