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Arkadi Zeltser: "In Israeli historiography, considerable attention has always been paid to the problems of Jewish life and suffering during the Holocaust"

Posted On: April 23rd, 2024

Posted In: Sponsored Projects, The Holocaust in Ukraine, Ukraina Moderna, History

[Editor's note: The interview with the author took place before Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine on 24 February 2022.] Abstract: A conversation with Dr. Arkadi Zeltser, who is an Israeli historian and specialist in the...

Righteous Vasyl Nazarenko speaks on WWII and the ongoing Russo-Ukrainian war

Posted On: April 18th, 2024

Posted In: The Holocaust in Ukraine, History

We continue our series of publications about the Ukrainian Righteous Among the Nations. Most of the 2,700 Ukrainian Righteous recognized by Yad Vashem have passed away, and only four are still with us. Three of...

"Joseph Roth — Coming Back," documentary by Oksana Lyniv

Posted On: April 17th, 2024

Posted In: Jews on Ukrainian Lands, Ukrainian- Jewish Relations History, Culture, History, Music

Oksana Lyniv, the internationally known conductor and artistic director of the LvivMozArt festival, tells the stories of Joseph Roth and Leonard Bernstein and his parents in a documentary that also features a commemorative concert near...

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...

What was the "anatomy" of the Holocaust in tri-national Galicia? Ukraїna Moderna

Posted On: April 8th, 2024

Posted In: Jews on Ukrainian Lands, Sponsored Projects, Ukraina Moderna, The Holocaust in Ukraine, History, Other Programs

Mykhaylo Gaukhman Historians like delving into the past, and I am no exception. Thus, I propose to start a discussion about a reviewed monograph by comparing two historical situations. In September 1655, the armies of Bohdan...

Roman Kabachiy: In a way, Zionism is a response to antisemitism

Posted On: April 2nd, 2024

Posted In: Jews on Ukrainian Lands, Hromadske Radio, Sponsored Projects, Audio/Visual Media

What is Zionism, on what basis was it formed, and what should be done to make people understand that there is no antisemitism in Ukraine? These questions are discussed by Roman Kabachiy, a senior researcher...

The power of life: artists from the families of the Ukrainian Righteous Among the Nations

Posted On: March 20th, 2024

Posted In: Ukrainian- Jewish Relations History, Culture, The Holocaust in Ukraine, Visual Arts

Marharyta Ormotsadze The Ukrainian Jewish Encounter continues to tell about the Ukrainian Righteous Among the Nations, people who saved Jews during the Shoah (Holocaust). This time, we have collected the stories of artists among the...

Level of Jewish studies is an indicator of a country's academic development — Yuri Radchenko

Posted On: March 18th, 2024

Posted In: Jews on Ukrainian Lands, Hromadske Radio, Sponsored Projects, Audio/Visual Media

Our guest is Yuri (Amir) Radchenko, Ph.D. in History, co-founder of the Center for Interethnic Relations Research in Eastern Europe, and acting rabbi in Masoret, a traditional (conservative) Jewish community in Kyiv. International conference on...

"Jewish Studies is an open field today," says the director of an international Jewish Studies program

Posted On: March 4th, 2024

Posted In: Hromadske Radio, Ukrainian- Jewish Relations History, Sponsored Projects, Culture, History, Audio/Visual Media, Ethnography

Our guest is Olena Zaslavska, director of the International Interdisciplinary Certificate Program in Jewish Studies and executive director of the Zionist Federation of Ukraine. She talks about Jewish studies in Ukraine and the interaction between...

Transcript of a discussion held during the roundtable "Holocaust Education during Russia's War against Ukraine"

Posted On: February 27th, 2024

Posted In: Sponsored Projects, Ukraina Moderna, The Holocaust in Ukraine, Other Programs

During the Russo-Ukrainian War, educators who teach about the Holocaust have become witnesses to the Putin regime's instrumentalization of the history of the Second World War and the Holocaust, in order to justify its brutal...

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Arkadi Zeltser: "In Israeli historiography, considerable attention has always been paid to the problems of Jewish life and suffering during the Holocaust"

Righteous Vasyl Nazarenko speaks on WWII and the ongoing Russo-Ukrainian war

"Joseph Roth — Coming Back," documentary by Oksana Lyniv

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

What was the "anatomy" of the Holocaust in tri-national Galicia? Ukraїna Moderna

Roman Kabachiy: In a way, Zionism is a response to antisemitism

The power of life: artists from the families of the Ukrainian Righteous Among the Nations

Level of Jewish studies is an indicator of a country's academic development — Yuri Radchenko

"Jewish Studies is an open field today," says the director of an international Jewish Studies program

Transcript of a discussion held during the roundtable "Holocaust Education during Russia's War against Ukraine"

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Encounter: The Ukrainian-Jewish Literary Prize

Download the complete 168-page book

A Journey Through the Ukrainian-Jewish Encounter

FROM ANTIQUITY TO 1914

All-Ukrainian Children's Drawing Competition 2021/2022

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All-Ukrainian Children's
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