In September 2023, the Diye Slovo Studio published a collection of poetry by the Israeli born in Kyiv Yehiel (Eugen) Fishzon “Which World War? Poems of war”. The collection consists of thirty poems devoted to the theme of the war in Ukraine. The first poem was written on February 24,

2022. An integral part of the project was the release of a series of postcards with illustrations from the book and the author’s poems.

On October 21, the first presentation of the publication took place in Kyiv, at the Sixties Museum.

The book presentation was attended by: author Yehiel Fishzon, publisher, designer and artist of

the book Olena Zaslavska, translators Valeriya Boguslavska and Svitlana Sunytsia, journalist Yuriy Korogodskyi, NAUKMA student Yuliya Ponomarenko.

The annotation to the book says: “With the beginning of the Russian invasion of Ukraine on

February 24, 2022, the world ceased to be the same. A full-scale war in Europe, confrontation between blocs of states, crimes against humanity dictate new literature for us. The cannons spoke,

but so did the muses. This collection of poems by Yehiel (Eugen) Fishzon, an Israeli born in Kyiv, is one of the first responses to what is happening and an attempt to look into the near future”.

A new book by poet, historian, and prominent Jewish public figure Yehiel Fishzon, titled “How Many Hands Does God Have?”, was published in Ukraine.

The book features poetry written after October 7, 2023, the day of the terrorist attack in Israel that claimed the lives of more than 1,200 Israelis, as well as the events that followed, including the war in the Gaza Strip.

In November 2025, two presentations of the book took place: at the Menachem Begin

Heritage Center in Jerusalem and at the Ukrainian Cultural Center in Tel Aviv.

The publication was carried out as part of a project by the “Diye-Slovo” Studio and the Zionist Federation of Ukraine, with financial support from the ZFU and private sponsors.