Dan Carkner🎻 · @carkner
48 followers · 122 posts · Server klezmor.im

My latest biography, by request of some longtime friends of his.

Arkady Gendler (1921-2017, Avram Hendler in Yiddish) was a Romanian-born chemist who spent most of his life in Zaporozhzhia, ; a lover of songs, he collected them throughout the Soviet period and in the 90s became internationally known as a singer and living link to the prewar world of music and Yiddish culture.

feedback or corrections welcome.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arkady_G

#wikipedia #ukraine #yiddish #jewishmusic #ukrainianjews

Last updated 1 year ago

Jonathan D. Abolins · @JonAbolins
297 followers · 948 posts · Server mastodonapp.uk

« push back against Putin's 'neo-Nazi' claim as they gear up for battle» | The Times of Israel. NB: Many Russians have a strongly Russocentric view of the evils of Nazism where antisemitism is a not a prominent evil. Instead the key emphasis is that Nazis are evil because they betray, kill, or otherwise work against Russia.

timesofisrael.com/ukrainian-je

#ukrainianjews #Ukraine #jews #RussianwarinUkraine

Last updated 2 years ago