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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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

"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...

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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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.

As Ukraine defends its very existence against Russia, the Ukrainian Jewish Encounter Timeline serves to counter the malicious and false narratives about Ukraine and its history. The Timeline demonstrates that Ukraine is home to diverse peoples and, for centuries, one of the world’s oldest and largest Jewish communities.

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.

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

Making Modernism: Theophile Frayerman and Jewish art in Odessa

Historian discusses how museums can tackle difficult issues of history

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

Nash Holos: Yevhen Aron Roytman

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

Sculpture as a Symbol of the Ukrainian Jewish Encounter

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

"Between War and Peace": Israelis Discovering Ukraine

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

UJE Timeline

Encounter: The Ukrainian-Jewish Literary Prize

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