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    There may have been anti-Semites at the Maidan but there was no anti-Semitism: artist Matviy Vaisberg

    Posted On: January 29th, 2021
    Posted In: Hromadske Radio, Sponsored Projects, Audio/Visual Media

    [Editor’s note: In honor of International Holocaust Remembrance Day, we are running a two-part series with famed Kyiv-born artist Matviy Vaisberg that aired on Hromadske Radio in 2020. The second part of the interview discusses…

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    The Holocaust is a Ukrainian loss, not just a Jewish one: Matviy Vaisberg

    Posted On: January 27th, 2021
    Posted In: Hromadske Radio, Sponsored Projects, Audio/Visual Media, The Holocaust in Ukraine, History

    [Editor’s note: Today the world is honoring the memory of the victims of the Holocaust. On 27 January 1945 Soviet troops of the First Ukrainian Front liberated the prisoners of the largest Nazi death camp,…

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    “For a massacre, I usually wore jeans”: A review of ‘Genocide: A Comprehensive Introduction’ by Adam Jones

    Posted On: January 26th, 2021
    Posted In: Ukraina Moderna, Sponsored Projects, Other Programs

    “A genocide begins with the killing of one man—not for what he has done, but because of who he is,” declared the diplomat and former United Nations General-Secretary Kofi Annan. [1] This apt statement requires some clarification, and it gives…

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    Olexander Koshetz (1875-1944)

    Posted On: January 21st, 2021
    Posted In: Did You Know?, Culture

    Choir director, composer, and ethnographer who helped popularize Ukrainian music outside Ukraine. A graduate of the Kyiv Theological Academy, Koshetz organized and conducted various choirs, taught at the Kyiv Conservatory, and was a conductor and…

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    Rules and application form: ‘Encounter: The Ukrainian-Jewish Literary Prize’ ™ 2021 Non-Fiction Category

    Posted On: January 21st, 2021
    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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    “A particle of light dispels the greatest darkness”

    Posted On: January 18th, 2021
    Posted In: Israeli Friends of Ukraine, Sponsored Projects

    This is the title of a seminar devoted to the study of the Holocaust and the Holodomor, which was held in Israel in December 2020. The featured speakers were historians and researchers who work in…

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