Ukrainian poetry of the Jews sounded in our club

poeziya The evening called "The Jewish theme in Ukrainian poetry" was successfully held recently at the club of ICF "Jewish Hesed "Bnei Azriel". It was not only very emotional, but also extremely informative.

Our guest was a Ukrainian poet and journalist Nikolai Tsivirko. During an hour and a half visitors learnt a lot of interesting facts.

For example, the fact that Taras Shevchenko, who as we know, allowed in his works to come on very sharp with his views about the Jewish people (many speak directly about the anti-Semitism of the poet, shown, in particular, in the poem "Haydamaky") performed together with other Ukrainian classics against anti-Semitic publications in the St. Petersburg magazines. He wrote that the Ukrainian people "expressed their hatred of the Jews, in days of old, by many thousands of bloody victims... with such a simple-minded consciousness of righteousness bloodshed that even sang its terrible exploits in its truly poetic songs", because it couldn't "understand the cause of evil, implying not the Jews but the religious and civil system of Poland". However, despite this, Shevchenko wrote that modern Ukrainian writers protest against anti-Semitism, "breathing a different spirit, feeling for different aspirations"...

In addition, well-known from the school reading-book Pavlo Grabowski is the author of the poignant poem "To the Jewish people", where he calls upon Ukrainians and Jews to forget "the bitter foretime". "I will remain a stranger to you by blood, — wrote Grabowski, referring to the Jewish people, — unceasingly I have to keep in my heart the holy sense of a great love, which no one can ever fade..."

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The Jewish question, as was said at the evening, was addressed in verses by Ivan Franko and Ivan Drach, Lesya Ukrainka and Oleksander Oles, Mykola Bazhan and Dmytro Pavlychko. In the performance of the participants of the evening sounded poems and excerpts from the works of Ukrainian poet Abram Katznelson.

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Nikolai Tsivirko, the author of the collection of poems "The Hot Stone", read a vivid and poignant poem "The Violet" about a village stelmakh (the master of the wagons and carts) Jacob Khmara, who saved a Jewish child during one of the pogroms of the civil war.

The audience gathered was numerous; people listened to the verses, as it is traditional in the ICF "Jewish Hesed "Bnei Azriel", - warmly and sincerely: the audience long did not let the poet go, asking to read poems on various topics. In particular, about love.

In the creative evening participated the managers of Hesed Emil Krupnik and Alla Kosach. At the end of the evening, Nikolai Tsivirko presented to the library of our Fund his book of poems "The Hot Stone" with the autograph and best wishes...

Ukrainian poetry of the Jews sounded in our club

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