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    Barbra Streisand

    Posted On: March 11th, 2025
    Posted In: Did You Know?, Culture, Music, Cinema

    Barbra Streisand is one of the most popular American actresses and singers of Jewish origin. She has won two Oscars and Emmy, Grammy, and Golden Globe awards. She was born in 1942 in New York...

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    Ihor Mykhailiuk: We knew little about the Holocaust in the 1990s

    Posted On: February 8th, 2024
    Posted In: Culture, The Holocaust in Ukraine, History, Cinema

    Auschwitz was recreated in the Ivano-Frankivsk region in 1996 for shooting the Italian film Truce (La Tregua). Ihor Mykhailiuk, who worked as an interpreter on the set, talks about the film. Released in 1997, Truce...

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    The founder of Hasidism is in a Ukrainian film for the first time in the history of world cinema

    Posted On: August 3rd, 2023
    Posted In: Ukrainian- Jewish Relations History, Culture, History, Cinema

    Rabbi Israel ben Eliezer, better known as the Baal Shem Tov ("Master of the Good Name") and the acronym Besht, became one of the protagonists in the new Ukrainian film "Dovbush" (2023). It will be...

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    Hava Nagila—the song, the story and the movie

    Posted On: March 21st, 2019
    Posted In: Nash Holos, Sponsored Projects, Culture, Music, Audio/Visual Media, Cinema

    Hava Nagila. The words are Hebrew for Let Us Rejoice. They also comprise the title of one of the most recognizable and well-known songs in the world. And little did I know just how appropriate a...

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    The Ukrainian-born French writer Irène Némirovsky

    Posted On: February 18th, 2019
    Posted In: Literature, Sponsored Projects, Culture, Other Programs, Cinema, Istorychna Pravda

    [Editor’s note: Irene Nemirovsky joins Aharon Appelfeld and Amos Oz as a writer with deep ties to Ukraine, but who is still largely unknown by the country’s citizens. 24 February 2019 marks the 116th anniversary...

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    Wrestling with dark history: Soviet Holocaust films and the new Ukraine

    Posted On: December 7th, 2018
    Posted In: Sponsored Projects, Culture, Other Programs, The Odessa Review, Cinema

    Despite the fact that almost half of all Jewish victims of the Nazi Holocaust were killed on the territory of the Soviet Union, their Jewish identity was for decades effaced by Soviet policy. It was...

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    Focus on the 85th Anniversary of Ukraine’s Holodomor

    Posted On: December 2nd, 2018
    Posted In: Book Fairs/Festivals, Culture, History, Holodomor, Cinema, Outreach

    The documentary film Hunger for Truth tells the story of Canadian-Jewish journalist Rhea Clyman.  Although little known today, Clyman reached international acclaim in her day for her coverage of the Soviet Union, including the 1932-33...

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    Ukrainian Director Ivan Orlenko on his debut film “In Our Synagogue”

    Posted On: May 3rd, 2018
    Posted In: Sponsored Projects, Culture, Other Programs, The Odessa Review, Cinema

    “In Our Synagogue” is the first film by Ukrainian director Ivan Orlenko. The 30-minute, black-and-white short is based on Franz Kafka’s unfinished short story of the same name. Of the film’s total budget of just...

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    “A Boomerang of Goodness”: Akhtem Seitablaev talks about his new film “A Prayer of Strangers”

    Posted On: March 5th, 2018
    Posted In: Hromadske Radio, Sponsored Projects, Culture, Audio/Visual Media, Cinema

    We are speaking with the director Akhtem Seitablaev about his new film A Prayer of Strangers. At the beginning of the conversation we are introduced to Saide, the main character of the film. Akhtem Seitablaev:...

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    Nash Holos: Shimon’s Returns

    Posted On: June 9th, 2017
    Posted In: Nash Holos, Sponsored Projects, Culture, The Holocaust in Ukraine, History, Cinema

    Welcome to Ukrainian Jewish Heritage on Nash Holos Ukrainian Roots Radio. I’m Peter Bejger. It’s never too late to have a happy childhood. An astonishing new film called Shimon’s Returns proves the point in a...

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        • 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
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      • Dukh i Litera Digital Library
      • Krytyka, "War is…"
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        • eBook: "Jews and Ukrainians: A Millennium of Co-Existence"
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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:

    Web Excellence Awards:

    • Excellence — Website Non-profit (2023)

    w3 Awards:

    • Silver — Website Non-profit (2023)
    • Silver — Website Best Structure and Navigation (2023)
    • Silver— Website Best Visual Appeal and Aesthetics (2023)

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    • Bronze — Website Digital and Innovative Experiences (2024)

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    • Gold — Website Non-Profit (2024)
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    • Silver — Website Visual Appeal and Aesthetics (2024).

     

    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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