The citizens of Zolochiv as well as the world’s scientific community celebrated on 18 July 2017 the 80th birthday of Roald Hoffmann, believed to be the last remaining living Nobel Prize laureate from Ukrainian lands. Hoffmann was born…
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The Faina Petryakova Center for Judaica and Jewish Art was set up to commemorate the life of Faina Petryakova – a scholar and a passionate defender and promoter of Jewish art. Petryakova was born…
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Babyn Yar today is a tree-lined park on the outskirts of Kyiv that offers the city’s residents refuge from the scorching summer heat. Seventy-five years ago, this peaceful setting of parkland was the site of…
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The author and poet Kateryna Babkina represented Ukraine at the Jerusalem International Book Fair 2017. Babkina presented her book of poetry Dlia vsikh odnakove poprosy [Ask the Same for Everybody], translated by Anton Paperny into…
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Ukrainian commemorative performance “Witness,” dedicated to the 75th anniversary of the Babyn Yar tragedy, has received the Bronze Cannes Lion at this year’s Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity. This is the first Cannes Lion award…
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While driving through the Ukrainian countryside in 1932, Rhea Clyman, a Jewish-Canadian journalist, stopped in a village to ask where she could buy some milk and eggs. The villagers couldn’t understand her, but someone went…
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Pupils have met a Holocaust survivor – saved with help from the Church – at the Polish embassy to mark the launch of a new charity. Lili Pohlmann, who was born in Krakow but moved…
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Yohanan Petrovsky-Shtern galvanized the audience at the Ukrainian Institute of Modern Art in Chicago on February 12 with an engaging presentation on “Jews and Ukrainians, a Millennium of Co-Existence,” a book he recently co-authored with…
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