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    Pages of Ukraine's Jewish Art

    Posted On: February 9th, 2022
    Posted In: Dukh i Litera Digital Library, Sponsored Projects, Visual Arts, Culture

    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...

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    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...

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    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...

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

    Posted On: July 6th, 2020
    Posted In: Hromadske Radio, Sponsored Projects, Audio/Visual Media, Literature, Culture, Visual Arts

    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...

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    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, Audio/Visual Media, Culture, Visual Arts

    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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    The fate of a Jewish artist: from Galicia to the USA with love and pain

    Posted On: May 7th, 2020
    Posted In: Culture, Visual Arts

    Ilya Schor, a native of Galicia who was a talented painter, jeweller, engraver and book illustrator, became one of the founders and most renowned representative of the "Jewish style" in American art. His works are...

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    ‘Eye on Culture’: Mykhailo Boichuk (and Manuil Shekhtman) and the “Boichukist” Tradition in Painting

    Posted On: April 30th, 2020
    Posted In: Culture, Visual Arts

    Since 2015, Canadian scholarly editor and TV producer Tania Stech has been preparing and producing concise English-language TV segments in the series Eye on Culture, which are dedicated to important but often little-known topics in...

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    Israelis make first Hebrew-language movie about the Holodomor

    Posted On: September 19th, 2019
    Posted In: Culture, The Holocaust in Ukraine, Visual Arts, Holodomor

    “With this film I want to break the silence in Israel on the Holodomor,” said Israeli actor, director, and producer Dim Amor in an interview with the Ukrainian Jewish Encounter. The film is being shot...

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    A conversation with Diane Covert, an American Jewish photographer who documents genocide and terrorism

    Posted On: July 23rd, 2019
    Posted In: Nash Holos, Sponsored Projects, Audio/Visual Media, Visual Arts, Culture

    Diane Covert is a Boston-based photographer who uses her talent and love of the craft to bring attention to genocide and terrorism. Diane’s work was brought to my attention by Allison Zivin at the Felshtin...

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    Ochyma Cultury: Roman Selsky and Margit Selska

    Posted On: July 11th, 2019
    Posted In: Culture, Visual Arts

    Since 2011 Canadian literary scholar, cultural historian, and writer Marko Robert Stech has produced short (8- to 10-minute) Ukrainian-language TV segments Ochyma Cultury («Очима культури») dedicated to little-known and/or underappreciated phenomena in Ukrainian culture or,...

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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 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.

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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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