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"These people aimed to prove that Jewish art existed." Lviv's Jewish artists in the early 20th century

Posted On: July 2nd, 2024

Posted In: Jews on Ukrainian Lands, Hromadske Radio, Sponsored Projects, Culture, Visual Arts, History, Audio/Visual Media, Ethnography

Art critic Bohdana Pinchevska talks about secular Jewish art of Eastern Galicia in 1900–1939. Bohdana Pinchevska's book on secular Jewish art Yelyzaveta Tsarehradska: Today, we will talk about your book. This book, I'm sure, is...

"A strong person does not blame their problem on some ethnic group." The story of the Rapoport family

Posted On: June 17th, 2024

Posted In: Jews on Ukrainian Lands, Hromadske Radio, Sponsored Projects, Culture, Visual Arts, History

This Hromadske Radio broadcast is about Olena Ahamian, Liubov Rapoport, their development as painters, and their Jewish context. The guest in the studio is painter Olena Ahamian, Liubov Rapoport's sister. How Liubov Rapoport's and Olena...

Diana Klochko: These artists created senses in the 20th century, but now their works are being destroyed

Posted On: June 3rd, 2024

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

The program's guest, art critic and translator Diana Klochko, discusses the outstanding ceramicist Olga Rapay-Markish. Diana Klochko: I got to talk to Olga Rapay-Markish thanks to Leonid Finberg, who invited me to her studio as...

Jewish Kultur Lige (1918-1924), its legacy, and world-famous members

Posted On: May 13th, 2024

Posted In: Jews on Ukrainian Lands, Hromadske Radio, Sponsored Projects, Visual Arts, Culture, History

This episode of the Encounters program is about the Kultur Lige, a Jewish secular cultural and educational organization that was founded in Kyiv and operated in 1918-24. The program's guest is Leonid Finberg, a sociologist,...

The power of life: artists from the families of the Ukrainian Righteous Among the Nations

Posted On: March 20th, 2024

Posted In: Ukrainian- Jewish Relations History, Visual Arts, Culture, The Holocaust in Ukraine

Marharyta Ormotsadze The Ukrainian Jewish Encounter continues to tell about the Ukrainian Righteous Among the Nations, people who saved Jews during the Shoah (Holocaust). This time, we have collected the stories of artists among the...

Pages of Ukraine's Jewish Art

Posted On: February 9th, 2022

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

This Ukrainian-language book Pages of Ukraine’s Jewish: A Textbook for Lyceum Students is part of the Dukh i Litera digital library project. The book is edited by Natalia Ryndiuk, Natalia Bakulina and Anna Umanska. It covers a...

Ephraim Moses Lilien (1874–1925)

Posted On: February 3rd, 2022

Posted In: Did You Know?, Culture, Visual Arts

The renowned printmaker, illustrator, and photographer was born in the western Ukrainian town of Drohobych, then part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. Lilien achieved international fame through the use of Jugendstil (Art Nouveau) motifs in his...

Murals honoring distinguished Jews to embellish cities in Ukraine

Posted On: April 29th, 2021

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

A significant proportion of Jewish artists are of Ukrainian descent: Anna Sherman

Posted On: July 6th, 2020

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

There is no European culture that did not experience the vital and essential influence of Jewish figures, says Anna Sherman, editor in chief of the journal Antikvar. Vasyl Shandro: To what degree are interethnic relations...

Calling things by their proper name: The mini-series that changed the image of the Holocaust in Germany

Posted On: June 15th, 2020

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

The German historian Frank Bösch talks about postwar German justice, conservative politicians, and a reinterpretation of tragedies. In world history textbooks we were told that after the fall of Nazi Germany, the three Ds instantly...

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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.

"These people aimed to prove that Jewish art existed." Lviv's Jewish artists in the early 20th century

"A strong person does not blame their problem on some ethnic group." The story of the Rapoport family

Diana Klochko: These artists created senses in the 20th century, but now their works are being destroyed

Jewish Kultur Lige (1918-1924), its legacy, and world-famous members

The power of life: artists from the families of the Ukrainian Righteous Among the Nations

Pages of Ukraine's Jewish Art

Ephraim Moses Lilien (1874–1925)

Murals honoring distinguished Jews to embellish cities in Ukraine

A significant proportion of Jewish artists are of Ukrainian descent: Anna Sherman

Calling things by their proper name: The mini-series that changed the image of the Holocaust in Germany

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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A Journey Through the Ukrainian-Jewish Encounter

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

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