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    The second world [war] in Lviv—twelve locations and historical subjects

    Posted On: October 29th, 2018
    Posted In: Hromadske Radio, Sponsored Projects, Audio/Visual Media, Visual Arts

    “The personal responsibility of concrete individuals, rather than peoples or nations that they represent”: the historian Oleksandr Pahiria talked about the concept and location of the exhibit ”Lviv ’43: City of (Non)Memory,” which recently concluded...

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    Making Modernism: Theophile Frayerman and Jewish art in Odessa

    Posted On: September 12th, 2018
    Posted In: Visual Arts, Culture

    Remembering a storied Jewish artist, teacher and museum director from Odessa. This article by Yevgeniy Demenok appeared in the October/November 2017 issue of The Odessa Review, which was supported by the Ukrainian Jewish Encounter. In...

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    Historian discusses how museums can tackle difficult issues of history

    Posted On: August 31st, 2018
    Posted In: Nash Holos, Sponsored Projects, Audio/Visual Media, Culture, Visual Arts

    History, trauma, and the museum space. Museums can offer many faces to the world. From dusty collections of artefacts to dramatic arenas outlining—or avoiding—compelling national or cultural narratives. A recent lecture sponsored by the Center...

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    Maximilian Goldstein: The life achievements and personal tragedy of the guardian of Galicia’s Jewish treasures

    Posted On: April 17th, 2018
    Posted In: Culture, Visual Arts

    The exhibition "Reminiscences of the Jewish world of Galicia" opened at Lviv’s Museum of Ethnography and Arts Crafts on March 28, 2018. The display affords visitors the opportunity to view an invaluable collection of art...

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    Nash Holos: Yevhen Aron Roytman

    Posted On: May 2nd, 2017
    Posted In: Nash Holos, Sponsored Projects, Audio/Visual Media, Culture, Visual Arts

    There is a classic expression that asserts “when cannons roar the muses fall silent.” In times of distress and upheaval, creativity and art may falter. However, there are always those artists who quietly and stubbornly...

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    The Soaring Popularity of a New Israeli-Ukrainian Music Video Clip

    Posted On: March 31st, 2017
    Posted In: Culture, Visual Arts

    The Israeli singer Gad Elbaz together with Ukrainian actors produced at the beginning of 2017 a video clip of the song "L'chaim" (To Life!) that attracted more than five million viewers on YouTube in two...

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    Sculpture as a Symbol of the Ukrainian Jewish Encounter

    Posted On: June 2nd, 2016
    Posted In: Culture, Visual Arts

    by Dr. Wolf Moskovich I recently visited the permanent exposition of the internationally acclaimed Ukrainian sculptor Mirtala Pylypenko Bentov in the Ostroh historical museum in Ukraine. Born in 1929, the US-based sculptor is known by...

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    Thejewishweek.com: Reimagined Jewish Folk Art At The Ukrainian Institute

    Posted On: March 10th, 2016
    Posted In: Visual Arts, Culture

    When was the last time you were at a gallery or museum opening where a featured wine was Manishewitz Concord? Better—when was the last time you were at an opening at the Ukrainian Institute of...

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    "Between War and Peace": Israelis Discovering Ukraine

    Posted On: March 2nd, 2016
    Posted In: Culture, Visual Arts

    The photography exhibition Between War and Peace: Ukraine—Israel is an important event in the cultural life of Israel and offers Israelis an opportunity to discover Ukraine from new perspectives. The exhibition, dedicated to the second...

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    Parallels in Ukrainian and Jewish Approaches to Creating “National Styles” in Art in the First Third of the Twentieth Century

    Posted On: November 30th, 2015
    Posted In: Culture, Visual Arts

    Europe in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries witnessed the creation of “national styles” in art, which built on the contemporary penchant for historicism, even while searching for a new art style and responding...

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      • Shared Historical Narrative
      • Exhibits
        • A Journey through the Ukrainian-Jewish Encounter
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