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    Winter Reading: “The Key in the Pocket”

    Posted On: December 21st, 2018
    Posted In: Agnon Literary Centre, Publications, Sponsored Projects

    Winter is upon us; it’s the perfect time to grab a book or eReader, curl into a warm corner and lose yourself into a story. This holiday season, the Ukrainian Jewish Encounter and the Agnon...

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    Discussing the Holocaust and the Holodomor: Ukrainian-Jewish dialogue in Israel

    Posted On: December 20th, 2018
    Posted In: Ukrainian- Jewish Relations History, Israeli Friends of Ukraine, Sponsored Projects, Symposia, Other Programs

    In December 2018, the Israeli Friends of Ukraine NGO continued its tradition of holding forums for Israelis which discuss problems of Ukrainian-Jewish history and critical moments in Ukrainian-Jewish relations. Based on the successful experience of...

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    Jewish American writer Mendel Osherowitz’s impressions of his trip to Ukraine in the winter of 1932

    Posted On: December 17th, 2018
    Posted In: Literature, History, Holodomor

    Researchers of the Holodomor of 1932–1933 continue to overlook a book that was written by Mendel Osherowitz (b. 1884, Trostianets–d. 1965, New York), a Jewish American writer and journalist who wrote in Yiddish. His work,...

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    UJE’s books at ASEEES conference in Boston

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

    The growing list of books published with the support of the Ukrainian Jewish Encounter were displayed at this year’s convention of The Association for Slavic, East European, & Eurasian Studies (ASEEES), held in Boston from...

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    Magocsi lectures in the U.S., Sweden, and England

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

    UJE board member and University of Toronto professor Paul Robert Magocsi traveled throughout the U.S., Europe and Ukraine in 2018 to present the award-winning book Jews and Ukrainians: A Millennium of Co-Existence, a work he...

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    Jewish life in Rivne explored in new book

    Posted On: December 13th, 2018
    Posted In: UJE Initiatives, Jews on Ukrainian Lands, Book Fairs/Festivals, Literature, Culture, Outreach

    Numerous books and monographs have appeared in recent years describing the rich lives of the Jewish communities that inhabited the territory of contemporary Ukraine prior to World War II. Now Ukrainian historian Maxim Hon has...

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    Christmas as an “Ecumenical Picnic” and a community meeting in urban space

    Posted On: December 12th, 2018
    Posted In: Hromadske Radio, Sponsored Projects, Audio/Visual Media, Culture, Ethnography, Religion

    During the winter holidays, when markets were being held in cities, an encounter of various ethnic and religious communities in a single, common space took place on a central square. Diana Klochko is at the...

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    Partners discuss two UJE-supported special media projects

    Posted On: December 7th, 2018
    Posted In: Book Fairs/Festivals, The Odessa Review, Sponsored Projects, Istorychna Pravda, Other Programs, Outreach

    Ukrainian Jewish Encounter proudly supports two on-going media projects ­– Hromadske Radio’s Zustrichi program in Ukraine and Ukrainian Jewish Heritage that airs on Canada’s Nash Holos Ukrainian Roots Radio. In an effort to broaden the...

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    Wrestling with dark history: Soviet Holocaust films and the new Ukraine

    Posted On: December 7th, 2018
    Posted In: The Odessa Review, Sponsored Projects, Culture, Other Programs, Cinema

    Despite the fact that almost half of all Jewish victims of the Nazi Holocaust were killed on the territory of the Soviet Union, their Jewish identity was for decades effaced by Soviet policy. It was...

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    Illia Galant: Petro Mohyla, Metropolitan of Kyiv, and his attitude to the Jews

    Posted On: December 7th, 2018
    Posted In: Ukrainian- Jewish Relations History, History

    [Editor’s note: We reprint a little-known document from the 17th century, which states that at that time, the Ukrainian clergy called for believers to take a moral stand toward Jews and see them as equals,...

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    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."

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