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“I would not consider writing with light on the bell tower of the Cathedral of Saint Sophia a Hanukkah tradition”—Diana Klochko

Posted On: May 3rd, 2021

Posted In: Hromadske Radio, Sponsored Projects, Culture, Audio/Visual Media, Ethnography

A conversation with art historian Diana Klochko about Hanukkah, Christmas, and New Year’s lights Iryna Slavinska: How new is the Kyiv tradition of installing Hanukkah candles on Kontraktova Ploshcha? Diana Klochko: They have been installed...

Murals honoring distinguished Jews to embellish cities in Ukraine

Posted On: April 29th, 2021

Posted In: Jews on Ukrainian Lands, Culture, Visual Arts, History

In April 2021, a huge portrait of the young Vladimir Ze'ev Jabotinsky appeared on the wall of a building located at 31 Bazarna Street, in the center of Odesa. The event was attended by Joel...

Lord, You will open my mouth… Josef Zissels in conversations with Iza Khruslinska

Posted On: April 28th, 2021

Posted In: Jews on Ukrainian Lands, Dukh i Litera Digital Library, Literature, Sponsored Projects, Culture, History

In conversations with the renowned Polish journalist Iza Khruslinska, Josef Zissels – former political prisoner and dissident, head of the Association of the Jewish Organizations and Communities of Ukraine, executive vice-president of the Congress of...

Women in the Bible are disenfranchised and treated like chattel, and their virginity—like currency: Ostap Slyvynsky

Posted On: April 26th, 2021

Posted In: Hromadske Radio, Sponsored Projects, Culture, Audio/Visual Media, Ethnography

We talked about Ostap Slyvynsky’s poetic cycle Imena [Names], which features figures of women whose names we have heard but have not paid attention to them. Ostap Slyvynsky: For the first time, I decided to...

Sidi Tal (Sorele Birkental, 1912-1983)

Posted On: April 22nd, 2021

Posted In: Did You Know?, Culture, Theatre

Sidi Tal (Sorele Birkental, 1912-1983) was born in what was then called Czernowitz, the capital of the Duchy of Bukovina in the Austro-Hungarian Empire, and is now Chernivtsi, Ukraine. As borders shifted and political regimes...

Book Review: Anatomy of a Genocide: The Life and Death of a Town Called Buczacz*

Posted On: April 21st, 2021

Posted In: Sponsored Projects, Literature, Ukraina Moderna, Culture, The Holocaust in Ukraine, History, Other Programs

This review of Omer Bartov’s book Anatomy of a Genocide: The Life and Death of a Town Called Buczacz by Vladyslava Moskalets first appeared in the quarterly journal Ab Imperio (2019. No 2. Pp. 115–122.)....

Honored antisemite: How Trofim Kichko became the star of anti-Zionism

Posted On: April 19th, 2021

Posted In: Jews on Ukrainian Lands, Hadashot, Literature, Sponsored Projects, Culture, History, Other Programs

In the final decades of the Soviet era, hundreds of anti-Zionist books and brochures were published in millions of copies. Many authors secured themselves a steady income through their critique of “Jewish bourgeois nationalism.” Yet,...

Taras Shevchenko, “Kobzar”, Bilingual Edition

Posted On: April 15th, 2021

Posted In: Dukh i Litera Digital Library, Literature, Sponsored Projects, Culture

This book, which belongs to the Dukh i Litera digital library project, is a bilingual edition of selected works from Taras Shevchenko's Kobzar. All Yiddish translations included here were made throughout the 1920s and 1930s...

Vasyl Avramenko (1895-1981)

Posted On: April 8th, 2021

Posted In: Did You Know?, Culture

Vasyl Avramenko (1895-1981). Ukrainian actor, dancer, choreographer, ballet master, movie director, and film producer, considered the father of Ukrainian folk dance in North America. Avramenko is credited with spreading the art form across the world...

Museum of the Jewish People: What is Israel’s latest tourist attraction about?

Posted On: April 1st, 2021

Posted In: Commentary, Culture, Commentary and Analysis, Ethnography

Opened in the spring of 2021 after a large-scale renewal that lasted for ten years, the former Museum of the Diaspora got a new name, a new concept, and a totally updated exhibition. I spent...

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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.

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“I would not consider writing with light on the bell tower of the Cathedral of Saint Sophia a Hanukkah tradition”—Diana Klochko

Murals honoring distinguished Jews to embellish cities in Ukraine

Lord, You will open my mouth… Josef Zissels in conversations with Iza Khruslinska

Women in the Bible are disenfranchised and treated like chattel, and their virginity—like currency: Ostap Slyvynsky

Sidi Tal (Sorele Birkental, 1912-1983)

Book Review: Anatomy of a Genocide: The Life and Death of a Town Called Buczacz*

Honored antisemite: How Trofim Kichko became the star of anti-Zionism

Taras Shevchenko, “Kobzar”, Bilingual Edition

Vasyl Avramenko (1895-1981)

Museum of the Jewish People: What is Israel’s latest tourist attraction about?

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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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 Children's Drawing Competition 2021/2022

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