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    Between two worlds: The Jewish question in the nationality policy of the Second Polish Republic

    Posted On: February 27th, 2020
    Posted In: Commentary, Commentary and Analysis

    The Jewish national minority that inhabited the lands of the Second Polish Republic was the largest in Central and Eastern Europe. According to the 1921 census, it had a population of 2.9 million persons, constituting...

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    Now available with English captions: Presentation of Yuriy Skira’s Book “Beckoned”

    Posted On: February 25th, 2020
    Posted In: UJE Initiatives, Book Fairs/Festivals, Literature, Culture, Outreach

    Ukrainian Jewish Encounter (UJE) is a Canadian philanthropic organization that has been working since 2008 to strengthen relations between our two peoples. This year marks the sixth time we are presenting our organization’s initiatives and...

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    Semén Aizenshtein, the forgotten pioneer of national radio technology

    Posted On: February 24th, 2020
    Posted In: Jews on Ukrainian Lands, Sponsored Projects, Istorychna Pravda, Other Programs, History

    In his native land Aizenshtein’s name was consigned to oblivion, despite the fact that after Popov’s death in 1906 he became his spiritual successor and the most prominent national figure in the field of radio...

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    Unique document from Ukraine put up for auction in Jerusalem

    Posted On: February 20th, 2020
    Posted In: Jews on Ukrainian Lands, Culture, History, Religion

    The Kedem Public Auction House held an unusual auction in the capital of Israel in July 2019. Whereas hundreds of lots and large collections are usually put up for auction, this time the entire auction...

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    Ukrainian-Jewish literary contacts, contemporary translations from the Yiddish, and new research: Results of the Odesa conference

    Posted On: February 17th, 2020
    Posted In: Hromadske Radio, Literature, Sponsored Projects, Audio/Visual Media, Culture, Language

    Today our talk is taking place in connection with a conference that took place recently in Odesa and which was devoted to the topic of Ukrainian-Jewish relations and Ukrainian-Jewish literary contacts. Our guest is Oleksandra...

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    Ukraine’s new literary prize for writers and publishers worth up to 6,500 EUR

    Posted On: February 13th, 2020
    Posted In: 'Encounter' Literary Prize, UJE Initiatives, Hromadske Radio, Sponsored Projects, Audio/Visual Media

    Today we are talking about a new prize that was unveiled in December 2019: “Encounter: The Ukrainian-Jewish Literary Prize.” It is sponsored by the Canadian philanthropic fund Ukrainian Jewish Encounter, which supports this podcast featured...

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    "Making the Holocaust part of Ukrainian experience". Panel discussion at Jewish Museum London 26 January 2020

    Posted On: February 12th, 2020
    Posted In: Sponsored Projects, The Holocaust in Ukraine, Other Programs, History

    On the eve of Holocaust Memorial Day, the Ukrainian Institute London held an important and timely panel discussion on how the Holocaust is remembered in Ukraine, in partnership with the Jewish Museum London and supported...

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    Ukraine: Holocaust and Memory. Panel discussion and artwork display in London

    Posted On: February 10th, 2020
    Posted In: Sponsored Projects, The Holocaust in Ukraine, Other Programs, History

    Between 1939 and 1945, over a million Jews were murdered in the “Holocaust by Bullets” in Ukraine. During this period, three occupations swept the country: Soviet, Nazi and Soviet again, leading to between 8 and...

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    How a young woman from Ukraine protected religious Jews from terrorists

    Posted On: February 6th, 2020
    Posted In: Diverse Voices

    Recently I decided to visit a unique site in the Holy Land for the first time in my life: the grave of the biblical Yosef (Joseph). The Book of Genesis recounts how Joseph, the son...

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    From Chufut-Kale to Lenindorf: How Jews arrived in Crimea

    Posted On: February 3rd, 2020
    Posted In: Jews on Ukrainian Lands, Hromadske Radio, Audio/Visual Media, Sponsored Projects, History

    The historian Mykhailo Tiahly discusses the Krymchaks and Karaites, and the peninsula’s Jewish history.  The historian Serhii Plokhy calls Ukraine the “gates of Europe,” a country on the border of East and West. Owing to...

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      • 'Encounter' Literary Prize
      • Babyn Yar Commemoration (1941-2016)
      • Sheptytsky Award
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        • Israel’s Experience of Nation-Building: Lessons for Ukraine
      • Shared Historical Narrative
      • Exhibits
        • A Journey through the Ukrainian-Jewish Encounter
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    Ukrainians and Jews have lived as neighbours for centuries, creating and sharing enduring cultures that continue to inform their identities today. Ukrainian Jewish Encounter (UJE) is proud to present an integrated narrative of these two peoples in the belief that there is much to be gained by viewing their historical experience together, in all its complexity.

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    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."

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    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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