July 2019 - UJE - Ukrainian Jewish Encounter

Historian Serhiy Hirik: Why the UNR’s slogans were reminiscent of Bolshevik ones

Posted On: July 29th, 2019

Posted In: Hadashot, Jews on Ukrainian Lands, Sponsored Projects, Other Programs, History

[Editor’s note: In an effort to broaden the discussion of Ukrainian-Jewish interactions and relations, the Ukrainian Jewish Encounter proudly supports independent media projects. Along with Ukraine’s Hromadske Radio and Istorychna Pravda and Nash Holos in...

UJE’s food and language brochure: Redux

Posted On: July 25th, 2019

Posted In: Culture, Cuisines

Borsch. Nalysnyky. Daruny. |Borsht. Blintses. Latkes. Varied names. But the same food. And a shared heritage. We invite you to enjoy a newly designed version of our popular brochure Ukrainian-Jewish Cross-Cultural Influences in Language and Cuisine. It...

A conversation with Diane Covert, an American Jewish photographer who documents genocide and terrorism

Posted On: July 23rd, 2019

Posted In: Nash Holos, Sponsored Projects, Audio/Visual Media, Culture, Visual Arts

Diane Covert is a Boston-based photographer who uses her talent and love of the craft to bring attention to genocide and terrorism. Diane’s work was brought to my attention by Allison Zivin at the Felshtin...

Memory of the Holocaust during the Soviet period: permitted and proscribed practices

Posted On: July 15th, 2019

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

The historian Iryna Sklokina discusses the unofficial memory of the Holocaust during Soviet times, the search for unknown heroes, and the struggle to establish monuments. Today we will be talking about a lecture that took...

Ochyma Cultury: Roman Selsky and Margit Selska

Posted On: July 11th, 2019

Posted In: Visual Arts, Culture

Since 2011 Canadian literary scholar, cultural historian, and writer Marko Robert Stech has produced short (8- to 10-minute) Ukrainian-language TV segments Ochyma Cultury («Очима культури») dedicated to little-known and/or underappreciated phenomena in Ukrainian culture or,...

Tales from the Hutsul region, the meeting place of Oleksa Dovbush and Ba`al Shem Tov

Posted On: July 10th, 2019

Posted In: Hromadske Radio, Literature, Sponsored Projects, Audio/Visual Media, Culture, Ethnography

Our featured guest today is Boris Czerny, who teaches Russian language and culture at the University of Caen Normandy in France. On today’s edition of Encounters, we have an opportunity to get to know a...

Viacheslav Chornovil, ‘General of the Zeks’: Fragments from the book “Ukrainian Silhouettes”

Posted On: July 4th, 2019

Posted In: Sponsored Projects, Istorychna Pravda, Other Programs, Diverse Voices

The Leningrad writer [Mikhail Kheifets] ends up behind KGB bars then in a camp in Mordovia, where the entire crème de la crème of the Ukrainian, Lithuanian, Armenian, Zionist, and other anti-communist resistance movements are...

Interview with Dave Bloom

Posted On: July 2nd, 2019

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

Dave Bloom is a member of the board of an organization dedicated to preserving the story of two Jewish communities and surrounding areas in Ukraine. One of them is called Drohobycz and the other is...

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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Historian Serhiy Hirik: Why the UNR’s slogans were reminiscent of Bolshevik ones

UJE’s food and language brochure: Redux

A conversation with Diane Covert, an American Jewish photographer who documents genocide and terrorism

Memory of the Holocaust during the Soviet period: permitted and proscribed practices

Ochyma Cultury: Roman Selsky and Margit Selska

Tales from the Hutsul region, the meeting place of Oleksa Dovbush and Ba`al Shem Tov

Viacheslav Chornovil, ‘General of the Zeks’: Fragments from the book “Ukrainian Silhouettes”

Interview with Dave Bloom

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Encounter: The Ukrainian-Jewish Literary Prize

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