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    Ukraine and xenophobia

    Posted On: September 10th, 2018
    Posted In: Analysis, Commentary and Analysis

    [Editor’s note: Vyacheslav Likhachev will be one of the speakers at the panel discussion “Antisemitism in Ukraine: Russian Disinformation and On-the-Ground Reality” sponsored by the Ukrainian Jewish Encounter and The Atlantic Council that will take...

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    Ukrainians, Jews, and others. Life is more complicated than historical memory

    Posted On: August 1st, 2018
    Posted In: Analysis, Ukrainian- Jewish Relations History, History, Commentary and Analysis

    Why did the Jews of Kyiv have the writings of Rambam translated into the Ruthenian language? How did the Jewish elite of the Rzeczpospolita [the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, 1569-1795—Ed.] drive out their fellow community members from...

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    Nobel laureate saved in the Holocaust: How Ukrainians and Jews find mutual understanding

    Posted On: July 27th, 2018
    Posted In: Commentary, Commentary and Analysis

    On the eve of the memorial event on 3 July 2018 in Zolochiv in memory of the victims of the Holocaust, I turned to the most famous native of this city—the professor of Cornell University...

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    Israel’s seven lessons for Ukraine

    Posted On: July 13th, 2018
    Posted In: Israel’s Experience of Nation-Building: Lessons for Ukraine, UJE Initiatives, Commentary, Symposia, Commentary and Analysis

    [Editor’s note: Author Nataliya Popovych was a speaker at the June 2018 conference “Israel’s Experience of Nation-Building: Lessons for Ukraine” that was supported by the Ukrainian Jewish Encounter and the New Europe Center in Kyiv....

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    Boris Gudziak: “The ability to accept the Other and his dignity is a challenge for us all”

    Posted On: July 4th, 2018
    Posted In: Commentary, Hromadske Radio, Sponsored Projects, Audio/Visual Media, Commentary and Analysis

    Borys Gudziak, bishop of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church, talks about Ukraine and Ukrainians as a multicultural community and parish. We are also talking about trust between the secular and church milieus. Today our guest...

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    Ukrainian Jews after the Maidan

    Posted On: June 6th, 2018
    Posted In: Commentary, Commentary and Analysis

    To understand the position of Jews in modern Ukraine, you must first understand what the 2014 Euromaidan Revolution meant for Ukrainians of all ethnicities. This article was originally written in March 2014 in the immediate...

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    Building historical memory into modern Ukraine

    Posted On: May 30th, 2018
    Posted In: Commentary, The Odessa Review, Sponsored Projects, Other Programs, Commentary and Analysis

    As Ukraine reinvents itself after the 2014 “Revolution of Dignity” and the eruption of war with Russia, it finds itself at the crossroads of national memory. The country faces the need to make multiple complex...

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    Who benefits from myths about the Second World War?

    Posted On: May 15th, 2018
    Posted In: Commentary, Commentary and Analysis

    Adrian Karatnycky: “The claim that Nazi tendencies supposedly exist in Ukraine is absurd.” This article first appeared in the Kyiv-based newspaper The Day (Den′). The letter written by 56 US Congressmen asking the State Department...

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    Exploring the legacy of the Holocaust in Ukraine

    Posted On: May 14th, 2018
    Posted In: Commentary, Nash Holos, Sponsored Projects, Audio/Visual Media, Literature, The Holocaust in Ukraine, Culture, History, Commentary and Analysis

    Guilt, justice, and family ties. These dramatic themes are recalled today due to the recent publication of the Ukrainian-language edition of East-West Street by Phillip Sands, a book presented by the author at the 2017...

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    Reflections on Jews and Ukrainians: A Millennium of Co-Existence

    Posted On: April 25th, 2018
    Posted In: Commentary, Publications, Sponsored Projects, Commentary and Analysis

    Three years ago, Paul Robert Magocsi, Chair of Ukrainian Studies at the University of Toronto, started collaborating with Yohanan Petrovsky-Shtern, professor of Jewish studies and Jewish history at Northwestern University, on a book about Ukrainian-Jewish...

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