GRANTEE
The series of essays consists of nine interconnected texts, which are designed to rethink the multi-ethnic and multi-layered cultural heritage of the town of Buchach, located in the Ternopil region. The main focus of the texts is the figure of the writer Shmuel Yosef Agnon, the Nobel laureate in literature, who in 1966 received the prize for his cycle of texts dedicated to Buchach as the city of his childhood and the city of exile. The proposed series of essays is an attempt to find a subtle interaction, a long-term intersection of Ukrainian and Jewish cultures, each of which has left a deep mark in the history of Buchach, and each of which still creates its identity, despite the terrible extermination and expulsion of the Jewish community from Buchach during the Second World War, the Holocaust and the first post-war years. The Ukrainian face of the city was also completely scarred and changed by the Soviet period.