Our Others
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Our Others: Stories of Ukrainian Diversity is an award-winning exploration of both the histories and personal stories of fourteen ethnic minority groups living within the boundaries of present-day Ukraine: Czechs and Slovaks, Meskhetian Turks, Swedes, Romanians, Hungarians, Roma, Jews, ‘Liptaks’, Gagauzes, Germans, Vlachs, Poles, Crimean Tatars, and Armenians. Based on a combination of academic research, fieldwork, and interviews, Olesya Yaremchuk’s literary reportages paint realistic, thoughtful, and historically informed depictions of how these various groups arrived in Ukraine and how they have fared within the country’s borders. Accompanied by vivid photographs that bring the reportages to life, Our Others is in some respects a chronicle of the myriad voluntary and forced migrations that have rolled through Ukraine for centuries. Simultaneously, the book offers a tender—and timely—study of the little islands of cultural diversity in Ukraine that have survived the Soviet steamroller of planned linguistic, cultural, and religious unification and that deserve acknowledgement in Ukraine’s broader cultural identity.
The volume’s contributors are: Marta Barnych (contributing co-author), Anton Semyzhenko (contributing co-author), Ostap Slyvynsky (foreword)
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Olesya Yaremchuk. Our Others
FOREWORD
APPLES FROM A FORGOTTEN GARDEN
Rivers of Milk
It’s All Ours, It’s All Jointly Owned
A Good Story
1968
IN A RACE AGAINST WAR. І. Dün, or Yesterday
ІІ. Bugün, or Today
ІІІ. Yarın, or Tomorrow
P.S
THE ISLAND OF GAMMALSVENSKBY
Noll: Zero
Ett: One
Två: Two
Tre: Three
Fyra: Four
TEACHER’S DAY
Vama
Rome
Milan
The Heart
Water
CLEAVED
The House on the Edge
Minus One
The Gap
OLHA PETRIVNA, THE BARON
The Camp
The Dream
Knock and the Gate Shall Open
Behind a Fence
Sister Sonia
Beyond Time
Toward a More Dignified Life
WHERE’S MAMA?
Sofiya
On What Brody Was like before the War
On What’s Hidden in the Matzevah Inscriptions
On What Happened on September 1
On How You Survived
On Life Afterward
STATION L
237 km to the East: The Relocation
To the South: From Gagarin, through Shevchenko, and on to Štefánik
0 km: The Evacuation of Cows
332 km to the West: A World No Longer Black and White
237 km to the West: The Reunion
907 km to the West: And Their Pants Marched Them to Berlin
With No Borders
WHITE SUN, BLACK WINE
The Grape Industry
Pressure and Resistance
The Gagauz Republic
Ö, with an Umlaut
A Home to Many
THE SWAY OF THE GUILDER
The Prayer
Down the Danube
Don’t Sprechen!
Stalin and the “Hungarians”
Singing Solo
Khrushchev and the Countess
Later on
Nockerln
MUSIC PLAYED ON WOODEN SPOONS
Rhythms
A Dynasty of Spoon Makers
Fleeing Count Dracula
Old Yanko
The Community Teacher
A Girl
THE POLISH EXPERIMENT. І. Battles with Snow
Warm Ashes
The Radio
The Road Home
ІІ. A Grandma’s Little Casket
The Germans Are Coming
A Hiding Place
ІІІ. The Meeting
HOME. 1
2
3
4
5
6
SOLITUDE AMIDST WALNUT TREES
The Last Armenian
Khurut Alone Will Remain
Grandpa the Swineherd and His Brother the Philanthropist
What Was Left Unexpressed
The Fire Station
Who Persecuted the Armenians
The Armenian Cemetery
1944
Dances in Wooden Heels
Staying
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS