January 2018 - UJE - Ukrainian Jewish Encounter

From conflict to cooperation: Ukrainian-Jewish relations’ bumpy path

Posted On: January 31st, 2018

Posted In: The Odessa Review, Ukrainian- Jewish Relations History, Sponsored Projects, Other Programs, History

For much of the history of Ukraine, it was difficult to speak of anything akin to Ukrainian-Jewish relations. Jewish assimilation into the broader Ukrainian society was always a complex issue, but myriad connections and positive...

Germans must remember the truth about Ukraine — for their own sake

Posted On: January 29th, 2018

Posted In: The Odessa Review, Sponsored Projects, Other Programs, The Holocaust in Ukraine, History

This is a transcript of a speech delivered by historian Timothy Snyder of Yale University at a conference on Germany’s Historical Responsibility towards Ukraine held in the German Bundestag, on 20 June 2017. The event...

Timothy Snyder: How the double occupation of eastern Europe during the second world war made the Holocaust possible

Posted On: January 22nd, 2018

Posted In: Hromadske Radio, Sponsored Projects, Audio/Visual Media, The Holocaust in Ukraine, History

Today the focus of our conversation on Encounters is Timothy Snyder’s book, Black Earth: The Holocaust as History and Warning, the Ukrainian translation of which was recently issued by the Medusa publishing house. My guest...

New initiative will help Ukraine preserve its Jewish cemeteries and heritage for future generations

Posted On: January 18th, 2018

Posted In: Jews on Ukrainian Lands, Nash Holos, Sponsored Projects, Audio/Visual Media, History

“As if they are trees falling in the middle of the forest in the middle of the night.” This haunting remark was made by Phil Carmel, the CEO of the European Jewish Cemeteries Initiative. The...

Second Lviv roundtable on Jewish Heritage is held

Posted On: January 18th, 2018

Posted In: Jews on Ukrainian Lands, History

Rohatyn Jewish Heritage participated on December 11, 2017 in a follow-up roundtable titled “Saving Jewish Cultural Heritage”. The roundtable was held at the office of the Honorary Consul of Israel in Lviv, where earlier this...

A short history of Jewish political parties in Ukraine

Posted On: January 15th, 2018

Posted In: Jews on Ukrainian Lands, The Odessa Review, Other Programs, History

Jewish political parties in Ukraine were partisan, ideological, fragmented, and ultimately crushed. But they left an indelible mark on Jewish history. This essay by the Ukrainian historian Serhiy Hirik originally appeared in the October/November 2017...

Kharkiv: a Jewish island in a non-Jewish sea

Posted On: January 12th, 2018

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

Today on the program Encounters the historian Artem Kharchenko talks about Jewish life in nineteenth-century Kharkiv, the Pale of Settlement, and the “Holocaust by Bullets.” Kharkiv is one of a handful of Ukrainian gubernial cities,...

Encounter: The Ukrainian-Jewish Literary Prize

The 'Encounter' prize aims to build on the common experiences of Ukrainians and Jews over the centuries, expressed in literature and nonfiction. The Prize will be awarded annually to the most influential work in literature and nonfiction (in alternate years) that fosters Ukrainian-Jewish understanding, helping solidify Ukraine's place as a multi-ethnic society and giving truth to the motto, "Our stories are incomplete without each other."

FROM ANTIQUITY TO 1914

The goal of the richly illustrated catalogue is to present an integrated narrative that looks at the experience of these two peoples together, in all its complexity — through periods of crisis, as well as long stretches of normal co-existence and multifaceted cultural interaction from antiquity to 1914.

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From conflict to cooperation: Ukrainian-Jewish relations’ bumpy path

Germans must remember the truth about Ukraine — for their own sake

Timothy Snyder: How the double occupation of eastern Europe during the second world war made the Holocaust possible

New initiative will help Ukraine preserve its Jewish cemeteries and heritage for future generations

Second Lviv roundtable on Jewish Heritage is held

A short history of Jewish political parties in Ukraine

Kharkiv: a Jewish island in a non-Jewish sea

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Encounter: The Ukrainian-Jewish Literary Prize

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