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Ukrainian nationalist Ivan Vovchuk's story must be brought to light — Opinion

Posted On: April 10th, 2024

Posted In: Commentary, Ukrainian- Jewish Relations History, The Holocaust in Ukraine, History, Commentary and Analysis

By Borys Lozhkin President of the Jewish Confederation of Ukraine Over two years after Russia’s brutal invasion of Ukraine, Ukrainians are still fighting valiantly. Two years on, Russian President Vladimir Putin is still spewing baseless...

Putin's path from philosemite to antisemite: What's behind his statements about Zelensky's Jewish background?

Posted On: October 16th, 2023

Posted In: Hromadske Radio, Analysis, Sponsored Projects, Audio/Visual Media, Commentary and Analysis

"It's difficult to find any logic in Russia. We are dealing with labeling. They simply select the concepts that evoke the most negative reaction among the Russian public and use them: Nazis, neo-Nazis, Banderites, fascists,...

Sergei Zhuk: "We should publicly name those individuals who are falsifying history"

Posted On: July 19th, 2023

Posted In: Analysis, Ukraina Moderna, Commentary and Analysis

ABSTRACT. This interview with the Ukrainian-American historian Sergei (Serhii) Zhuk focuses on the role of public intellectuals in the conditions of Russia's aggression against Ukraine. Researching the activities of the Soviet secret services in North...

Did Jews help the Nazis?

Posted On: August 4th, 2021

Posted In: Hadashot, Commentary, Sponsored Projects, Other Programs, Commentary and Analysis

Today it is very difficult to deny the Holocaust, as many eyewitnesses are still alive, and their testimonies are unassailable. The tactics of deniers have therefore changed. They say that the Catastrophe did take place,...

Dieter Pohl: “At present, there are practically no comprehensive studies on the history of the Holocaust in the Ukrainian lands”

Posted On: May 19th, 2021

Posted In: Commentary, Sponsored Projects, Ukraina Moderna, Other Programs, Commentary and Analysis

Our series of interviews with prominent historians who study genocides continues with a conversation with Dieter Pohl, professor of Contemporary History with a special emphasis on Eastern and South-Eastern Europe at the University of Klagenfurt...

The tradition of mutual influence in the cultures of humankind is immense, and we do not know much about it: Leonid Finberg

Posted On: May 10th, 2021

Posted In: Hromadske Radio, Commentary, Sponsored Projects, Literature, Culture, Audio/Visual Media, Commentary and Analysis

A conversation about new books published by Dukh i Litera Our guest on today’s show is Leonid Finberg, director of the Center for the Studies of History and Culture of East European Jewry and editor...

Museum of the Jewish People: What is Israel’s latest tourist attraction about?

Posted On: April 1st, 2021

Posted In: Commentary, Culture, Commentary and Analysis, Ethnography

Opened in the spring of 2021 after a large-scale renewal that lasted for ten years, the former Museum of the Diaspora got a new name, a new concept, and a totally updated exhibition. I spent...

Vitaly Portnikov: Shevchenko was not an antisemite

Posted On: March 29th, 2021

Posted In: Commentary, Ukrainian- Jewish Relations History, History, Commentary and Analysis

[Editor’s note: This article by renowned journalist Vitaly Portinikov originally appeared in November 2018.] One hundred and sixty years ago, in November 1858, the journal Russkii vestnik (Russian Messenger) published a letter written by a...

From the Carpathians to the mountains of Galilee: The 100th anniversary of the "Galician project" to foster the rebirth of Israel

Posted On: March 18th, 2021

Posted In: Commentary, Ukrainian- Jewish Relations History, History, Commentary and Analysis

One hundred years ago, in the spring of 1921, an experiment that became the stuff of Zionist legend ended. Myths were created and scores of books and plays were written about Bitanya-Ilit (in the Lower...

Ukrainian-Jewish fake antiques

Posted On: February 22nd, 2021

Posted In: Commentary, Commentary and Analysis

The growing interest in Ukraine's Jewish heritage in recent years and the broad coverage in the media and scholarly circles of the problematic pages of Ukrainian-Jewish relations, including the Holocaust, has sparked a demand for...

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Ukrainian nationalist Ivan Vovchuk's story must be brought to light — Opinion

Putin's path from philosemite to antisemite: What's behind his statements about Zelensky's Jewish background?

Sergei Zhuk: "We should publicly name those individuals who are falsifying history"

Did Jews help the Nazis?

Dieter Pohl: “At present, there are practically no comprehensive studies on the history of the Holocaust in the Ukrainian lands”

The tradition of mutual influence in the cultures of humankind is immense, and we do not know much about it: Leonid Finberg

Museum of the Jewish People: What is Israel’s latest tourist attraction about?

Vitaly Portnikov: Shevchenko was not an antisemite

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