First show of 2018! Christmas & New Year's program featuring: • Ukrainian Food Flair recipe: Chestnut cookies • Victor's Vignettes: celebrating Christmas & Easter in the USSR • Ukrainian New Year's special feature for Happy Station Show (2009) • Ukrainian Proverb of the Week • Local community events • Other Items of Interest • Great Ukrainian music! This hour is in English. Your host: Pawlina. Nash Holos Ukrainian Roots Radio airs live in Nanaimo on Wednesdays from 11am-1pm PST on CHLY 101.7FM, broadcasting to the north and central Vancouver Island, Gulf Islands, Sunshine Coast, northwest Washington State and Greater Vancouver listening areas. In English: 11am-12pm with Pawlina. In Ukrainian 12-1pm with Oksana Poberezhnyk.

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–Written and narrated by Peter Bejger.
Who closes the door? And who can open it? Who escapes? And who doesn’t?

A compelling book entitled The Great Departure: Mass Migration From Eastern Europe and the Making of the Free World by Tara Zahra answers some of these questions.

Tara Zahra is a professor of modern European history at the University of Chicago and a recent winner of a MacArthur Fellowship. Her book is an impressive work of scholarship that is filled with often-heartbreaking personal stories of the devastating human toll of migration.

Between 1846 and 1940 more than fifty million Europeans moved to the Americas in one of the largest migrations of human history. Villages were emptied out throughout Europe—especially Central and Eastern Europe. The homes the emigrants left behind as well as their new homes were fundamentally changed.

From almost the very beginning emigration policies were political tools to be manipulated and exploited. Governments and nationalist movements were eager to see certain groups leave—they were often called “surplus populations”—while trying to restrict the departure of other “favored groups” considered essential for state or nation building. The goal was to create nationally homogeneous populations. A goal pursued by various regimes and governments into the twenty-first century.

Therefore, Professor Zahra’s research shows the vast majority of the 2.7 million imperial Russian subjects who left the Tsarist Empire between 1880 and 1910 were Jews, Polish-speakers, or German-speakers.

Russian imperial authorities began to encourage Jewish emigration in the 1890s. The government let the Jewish Colonization Association set up branches throughout the empire in 1892. Emigration remained illegal for non-Jewish subjects of the tsar.

Brody, a western Ukrainian city that was then on the frontier of the Russian and Austrian empires, entered folklore as a major door of departure to a new life.

Brody itself was on the fringe of Galicia, a Habsburg Austrian crown land notorious for its abject poverty. Unlike Russia, all citizens of the Habsburg Empire had the constitutional right to leave. The Ukrainian and Polish peasants of Galicia, along with the region’s Jews, also emigrated in massive numbers to new overseas opportunities. Authorities recorded a total of 3.5 million emigrants from throughout the Austro-Hungarian Empire to all overseas destinations between 1876 and 1910. The largest numbers left from Galicia and Bukovina and from southern and eastern Hungary. Almost three million went to the United States.

The powers that be became alarmed. There was an increasing shortage of young men to call up for military service. Polish and Hungarian nobles in the Habsburg Empire feared losing cheap agricultural labor to American factories and mines.

The nobles had reason to worry. Wages in Western Europe and the United States were two to three times higher than wages in Galicia. And in those areas of Galicia most affected by emigration, wages eventually had to rise as employers had to compete in a global marketplace. Furthermore, as Professor Zahar points out, the tremendous flow of remittances from Galician emigrants back to their homeland expanded peasant landholdings, renovated churches, and provided economic relief.



Massive emigration, especially of young women,

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First show of 2018! Christmas & New Year's program featuring: • Ukrainian Food Flair recipe: Chestnut cookies • Victor's Vignettes: celebrating Christmas & Easter in the USSR • Ukrainian New Year's special feature for Happy Station Show (2009) • Ukrainian Proverb of the Week • Local community events • Other Items of Interest • Great Ukrainian music!This hour is in English. Your host: Pawlina.

Nash Holos Ukrainian Roots Radio airs live in Nanaimo on Wednesdays from 11am-1pm PST on CHLY 101.7FM, broadcasting to the north and central Vancouver Island, Gulf Islands, Sunshine Coast, northwest Washington State and Greater Vancouver listening areas. In English: 11am-12pm with Pawlina. In Ukrainian 12-1pm with Oksana Poberezhnyk.

–Written and narrated by Peter Bejger.

Who closes the door? And who can open it? Who escapes? And who doesn’t?

A compelling book entitled The Great Departure: Mass Migration From Eastern Europe and the Making of the Free World by Tara Zahra answers some of these questions.

Tara Zahra is a professor of modern European history at the University of Chicago and a recent winner of a MacArthur Fellowship. Her book is an impressive work of scholarship that is filled with often-heartbreaking personal stories of the devastating human toll of migration.

Between 1846 and 1940 more than fifty million Europeans moved to the Americas in one of the largest migrations of human history. Villages were emptied out throughout Europe—especially Central and Eastern Europe. The homes the emigrants left behind as well as their new homes were fundamentally changed.

From almost the very beginning emigration policies were political tools to be manipulated and exploited. Governments and nationalist movements were eager to see certain groups leave—they were often called “surplus populations”—while trying to restrict the departure of other “favored groups” considered essential for state or nation building. The goal was to create nationally homogeneous populations. A goal pursued by various regimes and governments into the twenty-first century.

Therefore, Professor Zahra’s research shows the vast majority of the 2.7 million imperial Russian subjects who left the Tsarist Empire between 1880 and 1910 were Jews, Polish-speakers, or German-speakers.

Russian imperial authorities began to encourage Jewish emigration in the 1890s. The government let the Jewish Colonization Association set up branches throughout the empire in 1892. Emigration remained illegal for non-Jewish subjects of the tsar.

Brody, a western Ukrainian city that was then on the frontier of the Russian and Austrian empires, entered folklore as a major door of departure to a new life.

Brody itself was on the fringe of Galicia, a Habsburg Austrian crown land notorious for its abject poverty. Unlike Russia, all citizens of the Habsburg Empire had the constitutional right to leave. The Ukrainian and Polish peasants of Galicia, along with the region’s Jews, also emigrated in massive numbers to new overseas opportunities. Authorities recorded a total of 3.5 million emigrants from throughout the Austro-Hungarian Empire to all overseas destinations between 1876 and 1910. The largest numbers left from Galicia and Bukovina and from southern and eastern Hungary. Almost three million went to the United States.

The powers that be became alarmed. There was an increasing shortage of young men to call up for military service. Polish and Hungarian nobles in the Habsburg Empire feared losing cheap agricultural labor to American factories and mines.

The nobles had reason to worry. Wages in Western Europe and the United States were two to three times higher than wages in Galicia. And in those areas of Galicia most affected by emigration, wages eventually had to rise as employers had to compete in a global marketplace. Furthermore, as Professor Zahar points out, the tremendous flow of remittances from Galician emigrants back to their homeland expanded peasant landholdings, renovated churches, and provided economic relief.

Massive emigration, especially of young women,

In this edition: Ukrainian Jewish Heritage: exploring the difficulties of Jewish mass migration from the Russian and Austrian empires • A Christmas Meditation:  Fr. Ihor Kutash on why Ukrainians celebrate Christmas twice and the real meaning of Christmas • Ukrainian Proverb of the Week • Local community events • Other Items of Interest • Great Ukrainian music!

Join me - Pawlina - for Nash Holos Vancouver every Saturday at 6pm PST on AM1320 CHMB Vancouver.

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In this edition: Ukrainian Jewish Heritage: exploring the difficulties of Jewish mass migration from the Russian and Austrian empires • A Christmas Meditation:  Fr. Ihor Kutash on why Ukrainians celebrate Christmas twice and the real meaning of Christmas • Ukrainian Proverb of the Week • Local community events • Other Items of Interest • Great Ukrainian music!

Join me - Pawlina - for Nash Holos Vancouver every Saturday at 6pm PST on AM1320 CHMB Vancouver.

Christmas & New Year Ukrainian Canadian style! This hour is in English. Your host: Pawlina.

Ukrainian Food Flair recipe: New Year's vodka punches • A Christmas Meditation: Fr. Ihor Kutash on why Ukrainians celebrate Christmas twice and the real meaning of Christmas • Book Review: First Star I See Tonight by Orysia Tracz (the compleat guide to Ukrainian Christmas traditions) • Ukrainian Proverb of the Week • Local community events • Other Items of Interest • Great Ukrainian Christmas & New Year's music!



Nash Holos Ukrainian Roots Radio airs live in Nanaimo on Wednesdays from 11am-1pm PST on CHLY 101.7FM, broadcasting to the north and central Vancouver Island, Gulf Islands, Sunshine Coast, northwest Washington State and Greater Vancouver listening areas. In English: 11am-12pm with Pawlina. In Ukrainian 12-1pm with Oksana Poberezhnyk.

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Christmas & New Year Ukrainian Canadian style! This hour is in English. Your host: Pawlina.

Ukrainian Food Flair recipe: New Year's vodka punches • A Christmas Meditation: Fr. Ihor Kutash on why Ukrainians celebrate Christmas twice and the real meaning of Christmas • Book Review: First Star I See Tonight by Orysia Tracz (the compleat guide to Ukrainian Christmas traditions) • Ukrainian Proverb of the Week • Local community events • Other Items of Interest • Great Ukrainian Christmas & New Year's music!

Nash Holos Ukrainian Roots Radio airs live in Nanaimo on Wednesdays from 11am-1pm PST on CHLY 101.7FM, broadcasting to the north and central Vancouver Island, Gulf Islands, Sunshine Coast, northwest Washington State and Greater Vancouver listening areas. In English: 11am-12pm with Pawlina. In Ukrainian 12-1pm with Oksana Poberezhnyk.

Back in 2011 I had the pleasure of speaking with Oleg Atbashan, author of Shakedown Socialism: Unions, Pitchforks, Collective Greed, the Fallacy of Economic Equality, and other Optical Illusions of "Redistributive Justice".

He shared with me some startling personal recollections of life in Ukraine—and, by extension, anywhere in the former USSR before the spectacular collapse of communism in Europe, starting with the Berlin Wall in 1989.

He also reflected on the circumstances, events and government policies that led to the Holodomor (1932-33 famine-genocide in Ukraine) and why in his view the western world is on the brink of repeating history from the darkest days of communism in eastern Europe.

Oleg is an American who emigrated from Ukraine in the early 1990s. He fully expected to find a bastion of capitalism and opportunity in America but instead, felt like he had stepped back in time. He was astounded by the multitude of naive Americans who, like socialist idealists of the early 20th century, firmly believed in the figment of socialist utopia.

Hence his book.

Oleg Atbashian has a wicked wit to match his clarity of thought and keen observation skills. You can see him in action on his websites The People's Cube and Shakedown Socialism and by following him on Facebook. (Sadly, he is not on Twitter.) You will also see how his dire predictions are unfolding in America, including soviet-style censorship he experienced from social media sites like Google and Wikipedia.

If you decide to buy Shakedown Socialism: Unions, Pitchforks, Collective Greed, the Fallacy of Economic Equality, and other Optical Illusions of "Redistributive Justice", please consider helping us out at Nash Holos by using our affiliate link. There is no extra cost to you but it does send a few pennies our way. (So that we can continue to bring you information such as this.)

Enjoy the interview! (Audio link below.)

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Back in 2011 I had the pleasure of speaking with Oleg Atbashan, author of Shakedown Socialism: Unions, Pitchforks, Collective Greed, the Fallacy of Economic Equality, and other Optical Illusions of "Redistributive Justice".

He shared with me some startling personal recollections of life in Ukraine—and, by extension, anywhere in the former USSR before the spectacular collapse of communism in Europe, starting with the Berlin Wall in 1989.

He also reflected on the circumstances, events and government policies that led to the Holodomor (1932-33 famine-genocide in Ukraine) and why in his view the western world is on the brink of repeating history from the darkest days of communism in eastern Europe.

Oleg is an American who emigrated from Ukraine in the early 1990s. He fully expected to find a bastion of capitalism and opportunity in America but instead, felt like he had stepped back in time. He was astounded by the multitude of naive Americans who, like socialist idealists of the early 20th century, firmly believed in the figment of socialist utopia.

Hence his book.

Oleg Atbashian has a wicked wit to match his clarity of thought and keen observation skills. You can see him in action on his websites The People's Cube and Shakedown Socialism and by following him on Facebook. (Sadly, he is not on Twitter.) You will also see how his dire predictions are unfolding in America, including soviet-style censorship he experienced from social media sites like Google and Wikipedia.

If you decide to buy Shakedown Socialism: Unions, Pitchforks, Collective Greed, the Fallacy of Economic Equality, and other Optical Illusions of "Redistributive Justice", please consider helping us out at Nash Holos by using our affiliate link. There is no extra cost to you but it does send a few pennies our way. (So that we can continue to bring you information such as this.)

Enjoy the interview! (Audio link below.)