ENGLISH CORNER, CON LINDA JIMÉNEZ – This week’s trivia question: What was the population of Lviv in 1941 when the Nazis entered the city? And how many of them were Jews?
Nataliya Tolok heads the Jewish youth organization Hillel in Lviv, Ukraine, where she also serves as executive director and project manager of Lemberik, an NGO that preserves and promotes Jewish cultural heritage. Drawing on this expertise, she helps coordinate the European Days of Jewish Culture in Ukraine. Her research focuses on Jewish vernacular dance, and she is herself a soloist dancer in the Jewish Miniatures dance ensemble.
She is currently in Barcelona taking a course in Jewish heritage and history, and she spent a weekend in Madrid where she gave a dance workshop for the Reform Jewish community.
This week she is telling us about the Jewish history of the city and region of Lviv, and next week we will speak with her about Jewish culture there and the many ways in which she is promoting it.
