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UJE-supported film “Finding Babel” to make its world premiere at Molodist film festival

Posted On: October 26th, 2015

Posted In: Sponsored Projects, Audio/Visual Media, Culture, Finding Babel, Cinema

On the 75th anniversary of Ukrainian-Russian writer Isaac Babel's execution, Finding Babel follows his 45-year old grandson Andrei Malaev-Babel on a journey to come closer to some sense of truth. Hoping to better understand Babel's...

Donbas War film Screened in Belarus

Posted On: January 6th, 2015

Posted In: Culture, Cinema

The Kharkiv branch of the Zionist youth organization "Ha-Shomer Ha-Tsair" shot the short film So. Dom. Bass. The movie was screened at a festival of Jewish short cinema in Minsk, Belarus on December 13-14, 2014....

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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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A Journey Through the Ukrainian-Jewish Encounter

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.

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