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The Holocaust in Southern Ukraine: The Response of the Rescued Jews of Kalinindorf District after the German Occupation

Posted On: November 24th, 2021

Posted In: Ukraina Moderna, Sponsored Projects, The Holocaust in Ukraine, Other Programs, History

Аbstract: This article is devoted to the history of the Holocaust in Southern Ukraine. During the interwar period a community of Jewish farmers, who lived in a rural area within the Jewish national districts, was...

Paul Robert Magocsi and history in Chernivtsi

Posted On: November 9th, 2021

Posted In: UJE Initiatives, History, Outreach

Paul Robert Magocsi, Professor at the University of Toronto and a board member of the Ukrainian Jewish Encounter (UJE), returned to Ukraine after a short break with a public lecture entitled "Why a multinational approach...

Video: International colloquium on the 80th anniversary of the Babyn Yar tragedy

Posted On: November 4th, 2021

Posted In: The Holocaust in Ukraine, History

A video recording of the international colloquium on the 80th anniversary of the Babyn Yar tragedy entitled "The Holocaust in Ukraine: Historiographic Trends, Commemoration, and the Conceptualization of the Crime" has been produced. The conference...

UJE at BookForum 2021: Panel Discussion: "How Metropolitan Andrei Sheptytsky Blessed the Jewish State"

Posted On: October 25th, 2021

Posted In: UJE Initiatives, Book Fairs/Festivals, History, Metropolitan Andrei Sheptytsky, Outreach

[Editor's note: The theme of the 28th International BookForum, which took place in Lviv on 15–19 September 2021, was "The Game of Growing Up." The Canadian charitable non-profit organization Ukrainian Jewish Encounter held several important...

Time of remembrance: the 80th anniversary of the Babyn Yar tragedy for Ukraine and Israel

Posted On: October 14th, 2021

Posted In: The Holocaust in Ukraine, History

The 80th anniversary of the Babyn Yar tragedy served as a highly symbolic pretext for the new Israeli president's visit to Ukraine. The moral duty to remember the largest mass shooting in the history of...

80 years since Babyn Yar: creating a more open culture of grief

Posted On: October 12th, 2021

Posted In: The Holocaust in Ukraine, History

Eighty years ago, at Babyn Yar in Kyiv ('yar' means ravine), the Nazis murdered over 33,000 Jews. Overall, around 100,000 people — Jews, Ukrainians, Roma, and others — were murdered at the site in 1941....

Israel and Ukraine thirty years ago: The first steps toward each other — via Babyn Yar

Posted On: September 12th, 2021

Posted In: Ukrainian- Jewish Relations History, The Holocaust in Ukraine, History, Diverse Voices

Why did the Holocaust topic surface at the earliest stage of the establishment of relations between Israel and Ukraine, and how did the fiftieth anniversary of the Babyn Yar tragedy become the first test of...

In search of Hrytsko Kernerenko, person without a profession: A genealogical mystery

Posted On: September 7th, 2021

Posted In: Jews on Ukrainian Lands, The Holocaust in Ukraine, History

"Which is the straight path that a man should choose for himself? One which is an honor to the person adopting it and [on account of which] honor [accrues] to him from others." Talmud, Pirkei...

Who were the "repeaters" and why were Jews among them?

Posted On: August 30th, 2021

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

The historian Tetiana Pastushenko talks about the Jewish community after the Holocaust, the return of Soviet power, and postwar Stalinist repressions. The pogrom that took place in Kyiv in September 1945 was an episode connected...

Eighty years later: The tragedy of the Jews through the eyes of a Ukrainian girl

Posted On: August 26th, 2021

Posted In: The Holocaust in Ukraine, History

An unexpected encounter took place in August 2021 in the Carpathian Mountain resort town of Truskavets, where Rabbi Moshe Reuben Asman was vacationing. Lev Hrytsak, the general director of the Karpaty Hotel and Resort Complex...

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