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Godless people’ or bearers of new knowledge? The history of Jewish educators in Ukraine

Posted On: February 25th, 2019

Posted In: Jews on Ukrainian Lands, Hromadske Radio, Sponsored Projects, Audio/Visual Media, History

How Jews began leaving their ghettoes for the spacious streets of large European cities. The Age of Enlightenment began in Europe in the eighteenth century. In this new system of ethics, the supreme value was…

Commemorating the 1919 pogroms—a chat with the president of the Felshtin Society

Posted On: February 14th, 2019

Posted In: Jews on Ukrainian Lands, Nash Holos, Sponsored Projects, Audio/Visual Media, History

Ukrainian Jewish Heritage is a series that has been ongoing here at Nash Holos for several years now, sponsored by the Ukrainian Jewish Encounter of Toronto. The series … for me and also, I hope,…

Prominent Jewish figures and themes on coins and banknotes of Ukraine

Posted On: February 13th, 2019

Posted In: Did You Know?, Jews on Ukrainian Lands, Culture, History

In recent years, the National Bank of Ukraine has issued dozens of commemorative coins on various topics. Several coins are dedicated to prominent Jewish writers and scientists who lived and worked in Ukraine, as well…

Josef Zissels ponders what the Babyn Yar Museum should be like

Posted On: February 11th, 2019

Posted In: Hromadske Radio, Sponsored Projects, Audio/Visual Media, The Holocaust in Ukraine, History, Diverse Voices

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…

London’s landmark discussion on Jews and new Ukraine

Posted On: February 6th, 2019

Posted In: Ukrainian- Jewish Relations History, Sponsored Projects, Other Programs, Special Projects

The milestone discussion “Jews and new Ukraine” that took place in London on 29 January 2019 touched on a number of important topics currently debated as the country moves toward Europe and democratic reforms. Leading…

Brodsky sugar: How did a small-town family become one of the wealthiest in the empire?

Posted On: February 4th, 2019

Posted In: Jews on Ukrainian Lands, Hromadske Radio, Sponsored Projects, Audio/Visual Media, History

Kyiv history specialist Mykhailo Kalnytsky reveals how the members of the Brodsky family earned a living and spent their earnings. Host Аndriy Kobalia Guest Мykhailo Kalnytsky The Jewish businessman Meir Brodsky-Schor had five sons: Abram,…

Ukraine’s Holodomor discussed at Lviv 25th Book Forum

Posted On: January 31st, 2019

Posted In: UJE Initiatives, Book Fairs/Festivals, Literature, Culture, History, Holodomor, Outreach

Red Famine: Stalin’s War on Ukraine by Pulitzer-prize winning journalist Anne Applebaum explores a seminal event in Ukrainian history – the Holodomor. Still little-known internationally, the Holodomor (death by hunger, in Ukrainian) refers to the…

Heritage and memory discussion panel in London

Posted On: January 30th, 2019

Posted In: Sponsored Projects, The Holocaust in Ukraine, History, Special Projects

The Ukrainian Jewish Encounter is a supporter of the program “Jews and Ukrainians: Re-Assessing the Past and Looking Into the Future” at the Ukrainian Institute London, U.K. The following is a review of a panel…

The Jewish question in Austrian Galicia: assimilation, anti-Semitism, and attempts at coexistence

Posted On: January 24th, 2019

Posted In: Jews on Ukrainian Lands, Sponsored Projects, Istorychna Pravda, Other Programs, History

Ukrainians and Poles in those days [late nineteenth century—Ed.] lived “together and apart” at one and the same time. They were divided by ethnic, religious, social, and other barriers. There was also this: Ruthenian [Ukrainian]…

Ukrainian Jewish Encounter at the XI Ukrainian World Congress

Posted On: January 23rd, 2019

Posted In: UJE Initiatives, Ukrainian- Jewish Relations History, History, Commentary and Analysis, Outreach

James Constantine Temerty, the head of the Board of Directors of Ukrainian Jewish Encounter (UJE), and Adrian Karatnycky, co-director of UJE, took part in the work of the XI Ukrainian World Congress (SKU), which was…

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