Dukh i Litera («Дух і літера», English: “Spirit and Letter”) is a Ukrainian publishing house that was founded in 1992. It is based in National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy and operates on a not-for-profit basis. Dukh i Litera publishes scholarly titles in both Ukrainian and Russian, predominantly in the humanities and social sciences. Additionally, Dukh i Litera focuses on publishing books concerning Ukrainian, Jewish, and French history and culture.[1]
| Company type | Private |
|---|---|
| Industry | Media |
| Founded | 1992 |
| Headquarters | Kyiv, Ukraine |
| Products | Books |
| Website | duh-i-litera |
Dukh i Litera is the foremost publisher of Jewish Studies works in Ukraine. It has produced the Ukrainian translations of the Oxford Handbook of Jewish Studies, books by Martin Buber, Elie Wiesel, Claude Lanzmann, The Black Book by Vasily Grossman and Ilya Ehrenburg (prohibited in the USSR by censorship of the Stalin times), as well as many other major publications.[2][3]
Publications
editTranslations
edit- Michel de Montaigne,
- Jean-Jacques Rousseau
- Thomas Hobbes
- Henri Bergson
- Emmanuel Levinas
- Simone Weil
- Paul Ricœur
- Michel Foucault
- Hannah Arendt
- Christos Yannaras
- Zygmunt Bauman
Ukrainian authors
editSee also
editReferences
edit- ^ "New Books by Ukrainian Centre for Holocaust Studies in Co-operation with Anne Frank House". holocaust.kiev.ua. Retrieved 5 November 2011.
- ^ "Our Adventure". Дух і літера (in Ukrainian). Retrieved 2022-09-04.
- ^ "Ukrainian Dissidents: An Anthology of Texts - Ukrainian Voices - Society/Politics - Series". www.ibidem.eu. Archived from the original on 2 December 2021. Retrieved 2021-12-02.
External links
edit- Official site (Ukrainian language)
- Our Adventure - About Us page
- Judaica Institute
- History, pain-strewn exhibition on Holocaust by bullets opens at Kyiv Post
- Олексій Сігов: «Саме читач визначає долю книги» (in Ukrainian) - interview with Олексій Сігов, an editor of the «Дух і літера» (Dukh i Litera) publishing house