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    Meir Dizengoff: The Odessan who built Tel Aviv

    Posted On: March 30th, 2018
    Posted In: The Odessa Review, Jews on Ukrainian Lands, Sponsored Projects, Other Programs, History

    The legendary first mayor of Tel Aviv got his start in business in Odessa and France before becoming a major figure in the Zionist movement. This article appeared in the October/November 2017 issue of The...

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    Does Tel Aviv have its own “Little Odesa” and other Ukrainian neighborhoods?

    Posted On: March 27th, 2018
    Posted In: Hromadske Radio, Sponsored Projects, Audio/Visual Media

      Ze’ev Volkov, a tour guide and employee of the Tel Avi-Yafo Municipal Museum and the Bialik Museum, talks about Tel Aviv and its history, and discusses the contribution of émigrés from Ukraine and other...

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    Ukraine country stand featuring UJE publications draws thousands at the Paris Book Fair

    Posted On: March 23rd, 2018
    Posted In: UJE Initiatives, Book Fairs/Festivals, Publications, Sponsored Projects, Outreach

    Several of the publications the Ukrainian Jewish Encounter has supported in recent years were on display at the Paris Book Fair, which took place in the French capital from 16-19 March 2018. The fair is...

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    “Jews and Ukrainians: A Millennium of Co-Existence” debuts in Poland

    Posted On: March 22nd, 2018
    Posted In: Publications, Sponsored Projects

    Paul Robert Magocsi, co-author of the award-winning book “Jews and Ukrainians: A Millennium of Co-Existence” traveled to Warsaw and Krakow to present the book to Polish audiences. The trip was associated with an important a...

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    UJE-supported book presented in Paris, France

    Posted On: March 14th, 2018
    Posted In: Publications, Sponsored Projects

    Paul Robert Magocsi was joined recently by French scholar Philippe de Lara for a presentation of the award-winning book Jews and Ukrainians: A Millennium of Co-Existence in Paris, France. For our French-speaking friends, we offer...

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    The inimitable Vitaly Portnikov on Jews and revolution

    Posted On: March 14th, 2018
    Posted In: The Odessa Review, Sponsored Projects, Other Programs

    For twenty-five years Vitaly Portnikov has been one of Ukraine’s leading journalists and political commentators. Born in Kyiv in 1967, Portnikov soon moved to Moscow to study at the Moscow University Faculty of Journalism. After...

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    Toronto Presentation of the new book “Don’t Tell the Enemy”

    Posted On: March 13th, 2018
    Posted In: UJE Initiatives, Publications, Literature, Sponsored Projects, The Holocaust in Ukraine, Symposia, Culture, History

    Prize-winning writer Marsha Forchuk Skrypuch unveiled her book Don’t Tell the Enemy in Toronto to an enthusiastic audience made up largely of young people on February 23, 2018. Don’t Tell the Enemy is the story...

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    Hayim Nahman Bialik—the National Jewish poet who spent his childhood in Zhytomyr

    Posted On: March 13th, 2018
    Posted In: Hromadske Radio, Literature, Sponsored Projects, Audio/Visual Media, Culture

    Ze’ev Volkov, a tour guide and employee of Bialik House [Tel Aviv], talks about the poet who spent his childhood in Zhytomyr following the death of his father, and eventually became a national Jewish poet....

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    The Jews of western Ukraine during the interwar period

    Posted On: March 9th, 2018
    Posted In: Hromadske Radio, Audio/Visual Media, Ukrainian- Jewish Relations History, Sponsored Projects, History

    The historian Maksym Gon talks about the Jewish community against the background of the [post-First World War] Ukrainian-Polish confrontation, Ukrainian-Jewish cooperation during elections in Poland, and the Jews of Bukovyna and Transcarpathia in the interwar...

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    “A Boomerang of Goodness”: Akhtem Seitablaev talks about his new film “A Prayer of Strangers”

    Posted On: March 5th, 2018
    Posted In: Hromadske Radio, Sponsored Projects, Audio/Visual Media, Culture, Cinema

    We are speaking with the director Akhtem Seitablaev about his new film A Prayer of Strangers. At the beginning of the conversation we are introduced to Saide, the main character of the film. Akhtem Seitablaev:...

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