Follow the links below for more information about Ukraine. Information from the attached PDFs is also included below.
Learn About Ukraine.pdf- Help Ukraine.pdf
- How can we teach Slavic Langauges and Literatures during the war in Ukraine?
- Free films about Ukraine on Free Online Platforms
Learn About Ukraine
- General surveys of Ukraine’s history, and a couple of books on several key events/topics:
- Insightful and eminently readable:
- Serhii Plokhy, The Gates of Europe: A History of Ukraine. Basic Books 2017.
- Serhy Yekelchyk, Ukraine: Birth of Modern Nation, Oxford UP, 2007.
- Paul Robert Magocsi and Yohanan Petrovsky-Shtern, Jews and Ukrainians. A Millennium of Coexistence. U of TP, 2016.
- Historical origins and legacies of Ukraine, Russia, and Belarus are discussed in Serhii Plokhy, The Origins of the Slavic Nations, Cambridge UP 2010. Available online to U of T community through library system.
- Timothy Snyder, Bloodlands. Europe Between Hitler and Stalin, Basic Books 2012. Available online to U of T community through library system.
- Anne Applebaum, Red Famine: Stalin’s War on Ukraine. Signal 2018.
- Ola Hnatiuk, Courage and Fear. Academic Studies Press, 2019.
- Irena Makaryk and Virlana Tkacz (eds.). Modernism in Kyiv: Jubilant Experimentation. U of TP 2010. Available online to U of T community through library system.
Ukrainian Literature in English Translations: Several Highlights
- Most recent poems from Ukraine on war
- Iurii Andrukhovych. The Moscoviad. Spuyten Duyvil 2008
- Serhiy Zhadan. What We Live For, What We Die For: Selected Poems. Yale UP 2019.
- Serhiy Zhadan. The Orphanage: A Novel. Yale UP 2021.
- Words for War: New Poems from Ukraine. Academic Studies Press 2019.
- Maria Matios. Sweet Darusya: A Tale Of Two Villages. Deep Vellum Publishing 2022.
- Oleh Lysheha. Selected Poems. Ukrainian Research Institute of Harvard University, 1999.
- The White Chalk of Days: The Contemporary Ukrainian Literature Series Anthology. Academic Studies Press, 2017.
- Valerian Pidmohylny, The City (A classic Ukrainian novel about Kyiv from the 1920s by a writer who perished during the Stalinist terror). Part 1.
- Valerian Pidmohylny, The City (A classic Ukrainian novel about Kyiv from the 1920s by a writer who perished during the Stalinist terror). Part 2.
- For more works of Ukrainian literature in English translations, visit Ukrainian Literature. A Journal of Translation, ed. Maxim Tarnawsky, vols. 1-6.
Cookbooks
- Olia Hercules. Mamushka: Recipes from Ukraine and Eastern Europe. Weldon Owen 2015.
- Slavka Bodic. The Ultimate Ukrainian Cookbook: 111 Dishes From Ukraine To Cook Right Now (World Cuisines Book 31). Kindle Edition
- Taras Sabadash. Ukrainian Cooking in Taras' Kitchen: Everyday Dishes. Kindle Edition
Help Ukraine
See a list of several charities which support Ukraine (from various sources, including SEEELANGS). The situation changes, and these charities focus on various aspects of support. This list will continue to be updated as necessary.
- Razom for Ukraine
- Ukraine Humanitarian Appeal Initiative: Established by the Ukrainian Canadian Congress (UCC) and the Canada-Ukraine Foundation (CUF)
- Polish charity which is accepting Ukrainian refugees
- Fundacja Ocalenie or Fundacja Ocalenie on Facebook
- They help people fleeing Ukraine across the border to Poland, and by accounts that I've read, seem reliable and effective. They can take Facebook payments by credit card on their Facebook page, so you don't have to deal with international wire transfers and currency exchange.
- Save Life: Funds protective and other defensive gear for the Ukrainian army.
- Hospitallers working at the frontline.
- United Help Ukraine: NGO that assists internal refugees.
- Voices of Children :NGO that aids traumatized children.