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        • Israel’s Experience of Nation-Building: Lessons for Ukraine
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    Shtetls through the centuries

    Posted On: April 29th, 2024
    Posted In: Hromadske Radio, Ukrainian- Jewish Relations History, Sponsored Projects, Culture, History, Audio/Visual Media, Ethnography

    Taras Vozniak, a culture expert, political analyst, editor-in-chief and founder of the Ji independent cultural journal, talks about shtetls as a social and cultural phenomenon. What is a shtetl? Yelyzaveta Tsarehradska: Let us begin our...

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    Arkadi Zeltser: "In Israeli historiography, considerable attention has always been paid to the problems of Jewish life and suffering during the Holocaust"

    Posted On: April 23rd, 2024
    Posted In: Sponsored Projects, The Holocaust in Ukraine, Ukraina Moderna

    Abstract: A conversation with Dr. Arkadi Zeltser, who is an Israeli historian and specialist in the history of Soviet Jews during the interwar period and the director of the Moshe Mirilashvili Center for Research on...

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    Righteous Vasyl Nazarenko speaks on WWII and the ongoing Russo-Ukrainian war

    Posted On: April 18th, 2024
    Posted In: The Holocaust in Ukraine, Ukrainians who saved Jews, History

    We continue our series of publications about the Ukrainian Righteous Among the Nations. Most of the 2,700 Ukrainian Righteous recognized by Yad Vashem have passed away, and only four are still with us. Three of...

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    "Joseph Roth — Coming BAck," documentary by Oksana Lyniv

    Posted On: April 17th, 2024
    Posted In: Jews on Ukrainian Lands, Ukrainian- Jewish Relations History, Culture, History, Music

    Oksana Lyniv, the internationally known conductor and artistic director of the LvivMozArt festival, tells the stories of Joseph Roth and Leonard Bernstein and his parents in a documentary that also features a commemorative concert near...

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    Avoiding the word "zhydivskyi" means silencing trauma: Oleksandr Averbuch

    Posted On: April 15th, 2024
    Posted In: Hromadske Radio, Literature, Sponsored Projects, Culture

    "I am not afraid of the word zhyd. It does not hurt me, and I want it not to hurt anyone else." So says the poet and translator Oleksandr Averbuch during a conversation about his...

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    Ukrainian nationalist Ivan Vovchuk's story must be brought to light — Opinion

    Posted On: April 10th, 2024
    Posted In: Commentary, Ukrainian- Jewish Relations History, The Holocaust in Ukraine, History, Commentary and Analysis

    By Borys Lozhkin President of the Jewish Confederation of Ukraine Over two years after Russia’s brutal invasion of Ukraine, Ukrainians are still fighting valiantly. Two years on, Russian President Vladimir Putin is still spewing baseless...

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    What was the "anatomy" of the Holocaust in tri-national Galicia? Ukraїna Moderna

    Posted On: April 8th, 2024
    Posted In: Jews on Ukrainian Lands, Sponsored Projects, Ukraina Moderna, The Holocaust in Ukraine, History, Other Programs

    Mykhaylo Gaukhman Historians like delving into the past, and I am no exception. Thus, I propose to start a discussion about a reviewed monograph by comparing two historical situations. In September 1655, the armies of Bohdan...

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    Israeli war for Ukraine, or brothers in different ways

    Posted On: April 4th, 2024
    Posted In: Ukrainian statehood and identity, Diverse Voices

    [Author's note: This article was written in the spring of 2014, on the heels of Ukraine's Maidan victory and Russia's annexation of Crimea. The text in Russian was published in the print version in the Kyiv...

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    Roman Kabachiy: In a way, Zionism is a response to antisemitism

    Posted On: April 2nd, 2024
    Posted In: Hromadske Radio, Jews on Ukrainian Lands, Sponsored Projects, Audio/Visual Media

    What is Zionism, on what basis was it formed, and what should be done to make people understand that there is no antisemitism in Ukraine? These questions are discussed by Roman Kabachiy, a senior researcher...

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      Discover Categories:
    • UJE Initiatives
      • Encounter: The Ukrainian-Jewish Literary Prize
      • Babyn Yar Commemoration (1941-2016)
      • All-Ukrainian student's drawing competition
      • Sheptytsky Award
      • Symposia
        • Israel’s Experience of Nation-Building: Lessons for Ukraine
      • Shared Historical Narrative
      • Exhibits
        • A Journey through the Ukrainian-Jewish Encounter
      • Outreach
        • Book Fairs/Festivals
        • Limmud FSU
        • World Jewish Congress
    • Sponsored Projects
      • Dukh i Litera Digital Library
      • Krytyka, "War is…"
      • Publications
        • eBook: "Jews and Ukrainians: A Millennium of Co-Existence"
      • Audio/Visual Media
        • Hromadske Radio
        • Nash Holos
        • Kontakt TV
        • Finding Babel
      • Other Programs
        • Hadashot
        • Agnon Literary Centre
        • Ukraina Moderna
        • Zahid.net
        • The Odessa Review
        • Israeli Friends of Ukraine
        • Istorychna Pravda
        • Special Projects
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      • Metropolitan Andrei Sheptytsky
      • Ukraine: A History Course
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    Ukrainian Jewish Encounter Timeline wins international recognition while countering Russian propaganda

    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.

    Explore the UJE Timeline

    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.

    Since its launch in September 2022, the UJE Timeline has earned international recognition by winning eight international awards:

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    • Excellence — Website Non-profit (2023)

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    • Silver — Website Non-profit (2023)
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    • Bronze — Website Digital and Innovative Experiences (2024)

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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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