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Guido Hausmann is head of the History Division of the Leibniz Institute for East and Southeast European Studies Regensburg and professor of History of Southeast and Eastern Europe at the University of Regensburg (Germany). He...
Our guest today is Maksym Hon, Doctor of Political Science, professor, head of the civic organization Mnemonics, and a specialist in Ukrainian-Jewish relations during the first half of the twentieth century in western Ukraine. Vasyl...
On 6–9 July 2021, Chernivtsi was the site of events dedicated to the eightieth anniversary of the beginning of the Holocaust in Bukovyna. Joel Lion, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the State of Israel to...
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A rescue during the Holocaust Since 2012, the European Day of the Righteous has been celebrated on 6 March. For more than half a century, the special commission of Yad Vashem, the World Holocaust Remembrance...
Golda Meir (Goldie Mabovitch,1898–1978), born in Kyiv, Ukraine, forged a dramatic life path and career that enshrined her standing as an illustrious political leader in the global arena and a legendary figure in the establishment...
Andrii Portnov, a history professor at European University Viadrina, talks about antisemitism in Ukrainian cities of the Russian Empire, “riots of minors,” and parallels with the year 2014 in the Donbas. After a small, victorious war...
Our guest on the show is the literary specialist Marharyta Yehorchenko, editor and compiler of the publication Jewish Addresses of Ukraine (Dukh i Litera, 2020). Vasyl Shandro: Are we talking about these addresses exclusively in...
Eighty-seven years ago, in early July 1934, the representatives of two different worlds met at the metropolitan's residence on St. George's Terrace in the Lviv of the time. Count Andrei Sheptytsky, Metropolitan of the Ukrainian...
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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 Part 1 of 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.
As Ukraine defends its very existence against Russia, the Ukrainian Jewish Encounter Timeline serves to counter the malicious and false narratives about Ukraine and its history. The Timeline demonstrates that Ukraine is home to diverse peoples and, for centuries, one of the world’s oldest and largest Jewish communities.
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."
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.
