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Ukrainian memory, culture, and wartime witness.
Nash Holos Ukrainian Roots Radio Podcast is a Ukrainian cultural and current-affairs program shaped by memory, survival, and everyday tradition. Its recent excerpts move from Russia’s war on Ukraine and wounded veterans to Hava Nagila, family recipes, book reviews, and community work in Canada.
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Nash Holos Ukrainian Roots Radio Podcast frames Ukraine through history, culture, faith, food, migration, and war. It is not only a current-affairs feed. It is a record of how Ukrainian life keeps speaking across generations, borders, and crises. Recent excerpts show that range clearly. Gene Berezovsky, co-founder of Ukraine War Amps, returns to discuss historical parallels between World War I and Russia’s war on Ukraine, with attention to occupation, autonomy, the Ukrainian People’s Republic, and the long shadow of Russian power. The tone can be direct. It can also be tender. A feature on Hava Nagila traces the song’s Ukrainian Hasidic origins and its journey into global popular culture, with personal memory folded into cultural history. The Ukrainian Food Flare archive brings a different kind of memory, through recipes for tomato yogurt salad and khrustyky, the rose cookie described as festive, patient work. Those kitchen segments give the show texture; Ukraine is present in dill, sour cream, dough, and inherited technique as much as in geopolitics. Knyzhka Corner adds book reviews in English about Ukraine and Ukrainians, including a discussion of Kidnapped from Ukraine: Under Attack and its focus on children, Mariupol, bombing, shelter, hunger, and family separation. The show also follows contemporary community work. An interview about Home of Hope describes the Sisters-Servants of Mary Immaculate, Canadian-Ukrainian support, and a residence for vulnerable young women in Ukraine. Another conversation centers Maxim Komenko and Standing Free, a film shot on site in Ukraine during the full-scale invasion. That excerpt includes medical supplies, evacuation work, frontline danger, resilience, and the desire to show the culture being defended. The Canadian side of the story matters too. Olena Lavrushcheva’s Nanaimo interview connects displacement from Kiev, local organizing, support for Ukraine, and an event marking the third year since Russia’s full-scale invasion. Across these excerpts, the show’s value is cumulative. It preserves names, recipes, songs, institutions, and testimony without separating culture from conflict. The result is a Ukrainian-rooted program where history is practical, food is archival, and wartime solidarity is personal.
Made for: Suits a listener who wants Ukrainian history and culture placed beside current wartime testimony, community organizing, books, music, and food traditions. It also fits someone looking for English-language context with a clear Ukrainian focus.
What sets it apart: The show stands apart by treating Ukraine as a living continuum rather than a single news subject. A recipe archive, a Jewish heritage feature, a book review, and a frontline interview can all belong to the same editorial world.
Snippets from the one-hour weekly variety show airing on AM1320CHMB Vancouver and CHLY 101.7FM in Nanaimo. Recipes, book reviews, current affairs, historical trivia, proverbs, interviews and other spoken word elements. Find the full episodes (with music) now on MixCloud. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
A novelist checks Mariupol records for character names; you get people where war headlines leave abstractions.
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A conversational look at Russian occupation, Ukrainian autonomy, and the memories shaping Ukrainian resistance today.
Russia's war against Ukraine is placed against an older backdrop, as Gene Berezovsky, co-founder of Ukraine War Amps, traces a line from Russian occupation in Western Ukraine to the upheavals of 1917.
A Ukrainian religious order's long social mission meets the urgent work of giving young women a home.
Home of Hope follows the Sisters-Servants of Mary Immaculate from their founding in Lviv through Ukrainian emigration, community service in Canada, and persecution under the Soviet regime.
A young filmmaker connects frontline documentary work with the aid he carried into Ukraine.
Standing Free centers on Maxim Komenko's experience filming Ukraine's full-scale invasion from the ground, where the images of war are tied to personal exposure and practical responsibility.
A candid discussion of writing Ukrainian lives without flattening them into wartime symbols.
Kidnapped from Ukraine centers on a steady question: how can fiction carry the human cost of war without turning Ukrainians into symbols? The author talks through the trilogy's setting during the current war in Ukraine, her choice to use contemporary American English, and the…
Ukraine explained through war, history, and survival.
Political anger and quiet stories, side by side.
Iran war talk, moon missions and the weather, unscripted
Oleg Atbashian discusses his book on socialism and his personal experiences in Ukraine, warning that the West is repeating communist history.
A Ukrainian paramedic discusses his work setting up a M.A.S.H.-style hospital in Irpin and frontline tech innovation.
Gene Berezovsky discusses historical parallels between WWI and Russia's war on Ukraine, focusing on events in Ukraine in 1918.
This episode explores the Ukrainian origins of the famous song 'Hava Nagila' and its journey from a Hasidic prayer melody to a global pop culture phenomenon.
A flashback episode of Ukrainian Food Flare presents a simple recipe for tomato yogurt salad, narrated by the late Sylvia Molnar.
A book review of Marsha Furchuk Skrypuk's novel about twin sisters in Mariupol during Russia's 2022 invasion of Ukraine.
A nostalgic flashback episode teaching how to make Ukrainian Khrustyky and rose cookies, with a detailed recipe and cultural significance.
The Nash Holos Ukrainian Roots Radio Podcast episode connects the Sisters-Servants of Mary Immaculate, the Lubov SSMI Foundation in Winnipeg, and the Home of Hope in Lviv and Chernivtsi.
Nash Holos Ukrainian Roots Radio Podcast speaks with Vancouver-based filmmaker Maxim Komenko about Standing Free, a documentary shot in Ukraine during the full-scale invasion.
Marcia Forchuk Skrypuch says Scholastic book fairs helped her books reach children who bought them themselves.
Ukraine War Amps supports over 3,000 displaced children with shoes while sending $50 food parcels to families affected by the war.
A Ukrainian paramedic discusses setting up a M.A.S.H.-style hospital in Irpin and frontline tech innovation.
Oleg Atbashian discusses his book on socialism, his experiences in Ukraine, and warns that the West is repeating communist history.
Interview with Ukrainian singer Oksana Mukha about her upcoming concerts in Vancouver and Victoria as part of her Canadian tour.