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Vitaly Portnikov: Shevchenko was not an antisemite

Posted On: March 29th, 2021

[Editor’s note: This article by renowned journalist Vitaly Portinikov originally appeared in November 2018.] One hundred and sixty years ago, in November 1858, the journal Russkii vestnik (Russian Messenger) published a letter written by a...

From the Carpathians to the mountains of Galilee: The 100th anniversary of the "Galician project" to foster the rebirth of Israel

Posted On: March 18th, 2021

Posted In: Commentary, Ukrainian- Jewish Relations History, History, Commentary and Analysis

One hundred years ago, in the spring of 1921, an experiment that became the stuff of Zionist legend ended. Myths were created and scores of books and plays were written about Bitanya-Ilit (in the Lower...

Ukrainian-Jewish fake antiques

Posted On: February 22nd, 2021

Posted In: Commentary, Commentary and Analysis

The growing interest in Ukraine's Jewish heritage in recent years and the broad coverage in the media and scholarly circles of the problematic pages of Ukrainian-Jewish relations, including the Holocaust, has sparked a demand for...

Leonid Finberg: "Solidarity between Ukrainian and Jewish intellectuals is very important"

Posted On: December 3rd, 2020

Posted In: Commentary, Commentary and Analysis

LB.ua is launching the publication of a series of interviews within the framework of the focus-theme of "Culture in the Expectation Mode" launched by PEN Ukraine 2020/2021. The first conversation is with Leonid Finberg. ...

“If we help and take care of each other, more people will survive these times”: Josef Zissels

Posted On: May 6th, 2020

Posted In: Commentary, Hromadske Radio, Sponsored Projects, Audio/Visual Media, Commentary and Analysis

The former dissident Josef Zissels, who heads the Association of the Jewish Organizations and Communities of Ukraine and is the executive vice-president of the Congress of Ethnic Communities of Ukraine, talked about changes in civic society,...

Time to reject the myths of Andrei Sheptytsky – opinion

Source: jpost.com

Posted On: March 9th, 2020

Posted In: Commentary, History, Commentary and Analysis, Metropolitan Andrei Sheptytsky

Metropolitan Archbishop of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church Andrei Sheptytsky, together with Ukrainian Greek Catholic clergy, saved nearly 150 Jews in Western Ukraine during the Holocaust. On Sheptytsky’s orders, these people were provided with false documents identifying them as Greek Catholics – as well as shelter.

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...

Historian Vasyl Rasevych: Why is Ukraine’s politics of memory in competition with the Jewish and Polish ones?

Posted On: December 5th, 2019

Posted In: Commentary, History, Holodomor, Commentary and Analysis

Why is Ukraine’s politics of memory in competition with the Jewish and Polish ones, how the Lonsky Prison Museum forgot about the Lviv pogrom, and why are we being caught on the hook of Russian...

Rescuing places of remembrance from oblivion

Posted On: November 14th, 2019

Posted In: Commentary, The Holocaust in Ukraine, History, Commentary and Analysis

JERUSALEM – The Valley of the Communities at Yad Vashem, Israel’s official Holocaust memorial, is perched high atop Mount Herzl, surrounded by pine trees and silence. On this particular day, an evening breeze has cooled...

Yiddish, in place and time

Posted On: October 25th, 2019

Posted In: Commentary, Jews on Ukrainian Lands, Culture, History, Commentary and Analysis, Language

CHERNIVTSI — I wanted to hear Yiddish. The Yiddish that Wolf Moskovich – professor emeritus of the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, board member of the Ukrainian Jewish Encounter and Chernivtsi native – spoke about only...

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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.

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."

FROM ANTIQUITY TO 1914

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.

Vitaly Portnikov: Shevchenko was not an antisemite

From the Carpathians to the mountains of Galilee: The 100th anniversary of the "Galician project" to foster the rebirth of Israel

Ukrainian-Jewish fake antiques

Leonid Finberg: "Solidarity between Ukrainian and Jewish intellectuals is very important"

“If we help and take care of each other, more people will survive these times”: Josef Zissels

Time to reject the myths of Andrei Sheptytsky – opinion

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

Historian Vasyl Rasevych: Why is Ukraine’s politics of memory in competition with the Jewish and Polish ones?

Rescuing places of remembrance from oblivion

Yiddish, in place and time

Ukrainian Jewish Encounter Timeline wins international recognition while countering Russian propaganda

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Encounter: The Ukrainian-Jewish Literary Prize

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FROM ANTIQUITY TO 1914

All-Ukrainian Student's
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Ukrainian Jewish Encounter Timeline wins international recognition while countering Russian propaganda

Web Excellence Awards:

w3 Awards:

Anthem Awards:

Communicator Awards:

Encounter: The Ukrainian-Jewish Literary Prize

Download the complete 168-page book

A Journey Through the Ukrainian-Jewish Encounter

FROM ANTIQUITY TO 1914

All-Ukrainian Student's Drawing Competition 2021/2022

All-Ukrainian Student's
Drawing Competition
2021/2022