On today’s edition of Encounters we are talking with the scholar and professor of Northwestern University, Yohanan Petrovsky-Shtern, about his book The Anti-Imperial Choice, which appeared recently in a Ukrainian translation published by Krytyka Press….
Is there a Ukrainian accent in the Hebrew language? Miriam-Feyga Bunimovich, a culturologist and translator from Ukraine who has lived in Israel for nearly eight years, talks about Ukrainian language and culture. Iryna Slavinska: Our…
We are pleased to present a short video about Kharkiv, its history, and the city’s Jewish community and student population. Narrated by Maksym Rozenfeld, a well-known Kharkiv-based regional historian, art historian, architect, and lecturer at…
Dr. Vasyl Rasevych is a senior academic researcher in the Center for Urban History of East Central Europe in Lviv, Ukraine. Rasevych has become a very popular historian in the field of Ukrainian-Jewish historical memory….
The cooperation between the volunteers of Israel and Ukraine began immediately after the victory of the Maidan in February-March 2014. The first joint project was the dispatch and treatment of the wounded from the Maidan…
The largest front-line Jewish community in Ukraine is in Mariupol. Today on the program Encounters Menachem Mendel Cohen, the chief rabbi of Mariupol, talks about the life of the Jewish community and the displaced persons…
These sessions were presented in Russian on 14-16 September 2017 at a seminar in Tel Aviv for Israeli youth entitled “Jews and Ukrainians: Controversial Issues of Historical Memory.” A round table discussion on the possibility…
These three lectures were presented in Russian on 14-16 September 2017 at a seminar in Tel Aviv for Israeli youth entitled “Jews and Ukrainians: Controversial Issues of Historical Memory.” Major topics from the lectures are…
Dr. Vasyl Rasevych is a senior academic at the Center for Urban History of East Central Europe in Lviv, Ukraine. His two lectures were presented in Russian on 14-16 September 2017 at a seminar in…
Ukraine aroused a much bigger interest among Israelis in 2014-2017 than in previous decades. The events of the Maidan in Kyiv, the crisis in Crimea, the military conflict in Donbas, as well as the achievements…