Recently I decided to visit a unique site in the Holy Land for the first time in my life: the grave of the biblical Yosef (Joseph). The Book of Genesis recounts how Joseph, the son…
How did the stereotype of the “keys to the church” arise? Was Taras Shevchenko an anti-Semite? Who was the first Jewish voice in Ukrainian literature? And why did Jews in the shtetls keep Ukrainian theaters…
Publisher Oksana Forostyna talks about Israeli ingenuity, the innovation boom, and Avi Jorisch’s new book. Iryna Slavinska: Today’s program is devoted to an unusual topic. We will be talking about Israel and innovations. Our focus…
The Leningrad writer [Mikhail Kheifets] ends up behind KGB bars then in a camp in Mordovia, where the entire crème de la crème of the Ukrainian, Lithuanian, Armenian, Zionist, and other anti-communist resistance movements are…
“I sat down and began thinking about Jews and Ukrainians. About Ukrainians, who so extolled Ukraine to me, and about Jews, who are afraid of answering a telephone call from a Jews. And Tevye’s words…
This year, the presidential elections in Ukraine almost coincide with the elections to the Israeli Knesset. Two weeks are left before the Ukrainian election, three weeks before the Israeli one. We have collected the opinions…
Exactly one hundred years ago there was a terrible pogrom in the city of Proskuriv [Khmelnytsky]—the largest mass murder of Jews in the twentieth century before the Holocaust. While this terrible tragedy had its executioners,…
The history behind the creation of various projects to memorialize Babyn Yar is recounted by Josef Zissels, a former dissident and the current co-president of the Association of Jewish Organizations and Communities, the VAAD of…
An insightful discussion, sponsored by UJE, took place in Kyiv at the YES Annual Meeting on the topic “Antisemitism in Ukraine: Russian Disinformation and On-the-Ground Reality” on 14 September 2018. Participants spoke on a wide…
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….
