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    The spiritual leaders of Ukraine’s Jewish community

    Posted On: May 28th, 2020
    Posted In: Culture, Diverse Voices, Religion

    The lands of modern Ukraine have historically been home to various Hasidic movements as well as a significant share of “Lithuanian” Judaism, a non-Hasidic branch with an emphasis on Talmudic scholarship. This mosaic has practically…

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    “Intertwined worlds”: In memory of a poet

    Posted On: May 27th, 2020
    Posted In: Did You Know?, Literature, Culture

    Sad news has arrived from Kyiv, where on 26 May 2020, the distinguished Ukrainian poet and translator Moisei Fishbein died at the age of 73. With his extraordinary personality and poetic creativity, he embodied the…

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    International jury named for the “Encounter” prize

    Posted On: May 25th, 2020
    Posted In: ‘Encounter’ Literary Prize, UJE Initiatives

    Ukrainians and Jews have lived side-by-side on the territory of modern-day Ukraine for nearly two millennia. Separately and together, they weaved a tapestry that has left an indelible mark on Ukraine’s cultural, linguistic, and historical…

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    UCHS Library of Holocaust Memoirs: “The Lone Survivor”

    Posted On: May 22nd, 2020
    Posted In: Publications, Literature, Sponsored Projects, Culture

    [Editor’s note: The Ukrainian Jewish Encounter was founded in 2008 with the goal of building stronger relations between Ukrainians and Jews, two peoples who for centuries lived side by side on the territory of what…

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    How the Europe Island Festival works with “chamber” languages: The history of Hebrew and Yiddish

    Posted On: May 20th, 2020
    Posted In: Hromadske Radio, Sponsored Projects, Audio/Visual Media, Culture, Language

    Today we will be talking about literature and translation. It is especially gratifying to be discussing all this via the example of a young, very ambitious, and successful festival called Europe Island, which is held…

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    Blog: “Don’t mention the war”: does Europe need a shared historical narrative of WW2?

    Source: Ukrainian Institute London  
    Posted On: May 19th, 2020
    Posted In: Sponsored Projects, Other Programs, Special Projects

    On the eve of VE day, Ukrainian Institute London and the Henry Jackson Society held a lively discussion about whether Europe needs a shared narrative of World War Two.

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    The history of Jewish theater in Ukraine: an interview with Iryna Meleshkina, part 2

    Posted On: May 14th, 2020
    Posted In: Hromadske Radio, Sponsored Projects, Culture, Theatre

    We are continuing our conversation about Jewish theater. In the first part we talked about the founding of Jewish theater and its work on the territory of contemporary Ukraine from the late nineteenth century until…

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    The history of Jewish theater in Ukraine: an interview with Iryna Meleshkina, part 1

    Posted On: May 13th, 2020
    Posted In: Hromadske Radio, Sponsored Projects, Audio/Visual Media, Culture, Theatre

    We are talking about Jewish theater in Ukraine and the publication Wandering Stars in Ukraine: Pages from the History of Jewish Theater. Our guest in the studio today is the theater critic Iryna Meleshkina, who…

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    Myth overcomes History

    Posted On: May 11th, 2020
    Posted In: Agnon Literary Centre, Sponsored Projects, Other Programs

    From ancient times a story has drifted through various cultures about remarkable masters who are destroyed or maimed by a powerful client so that they will never again create something similar for anyone else. This…

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    The fate of a Jewish artist: from Galicia to the USA with love and pain

    Posted On: May 7th, 2020
    Posted In: Culture, Visual Arts

    Ilya Schor, a native of Galicia who was a talented painter, jeweller, engraver and book illustrator, became one of the founders and most renowned representative of the “Jewish style” in American art. His works are…

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