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Mykola Krasovsky: From the Beilis affair to the Intelligence Service of the Ukrainian National Republic

Posted On: September 24th, 2019

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

[Editor’s note: In Kyiv in 1913 Mendel Beilis, a Jew, was accused of the ritual murder of Andrii Yushchynsky, a 13-year-old Ukrainian boy. Mykola Krasovsky, the lead investigator of the Kyiv Police Department, carried out…

Israelis make first Hebrew-language movie about the Holodomor

Posted On: September 19th, 2019

Posted In: Culture, The Holocaust in Ukraine, Visual Arts, Holodomor

“With this film I want to break the silence in Israel on the Holodomor,” said Israeli actor, director, and producer Dim Amor in an interview with the Ukrainian Jewish Encounter. The film is being shot…

A Ukrainian bomb, a Polish target, a Jewish victim

Posted On: September 5th, 2019

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

The arrival of the only president of Poland to visit Lviv during the interwar period was overshadowed by an assassination attempt that was organized by the Ukrainian underground. A Jew named Stanisław Steiger was caught…

Lost Shtetls of Ukraine

Posted On: August 26th, 2019

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

The Jewish population of Ukraine before the Second World War was over 2.5 million. Now the current population is only around 100,000. A whole world with its very own culture, rules, and customs was decimated…

Keynote address by NED President Carl Gershman at the Kyiv Jewish Forum

Posted On: August 12th, 2019

Posted In: UJE Initiatives, World Jewish Congress, History, Holodomor, Outreach

[Editor’s note: More than 500 leaders from Israel, the United States, Europe and Ukraine participated in the inaugural Kyiv Jewish Forum held in the Ukrainian capital from 5-7 May 2019. Carl Gershman, President of the…

Rhea Clyman, writing from the belly of two beasts: A Toronto journalist’s reports from Stalinist Russia and Nazi Germany

Posted On: August 6th, 2019

Posted In: UJE Initiatives, Symposia, History, Holodomor

While conducting research on the history of Ukrainians in Canada during the interwar years, Jars Balan discovered a series of powerfully written articles by a forgotten Canadian Jewish journalist, named Rhea Clyman, describing the horrors…

Historian Serhiy Hirik: Why the UNR’s slogans were reminiscent of Bolshevik ones

Posted On: July 29th, 2019

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

[Editor’s note: In an effort to broaden the discussion of Ukrainian-Jewish interactions and relations, the Ukrainian Jewish Encounter proudly supports independent media projects. Along with Ukraine’s Hromadske Radio and Istorychna Pravda and Nash Holos in…

Memory of the Holocaust during the Soviet period: permitted and proscribed practices

Posted On: July 15th, 2019

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

The historian Iryna Sklokina discusses the unofficial memory of the Holocaust during Soviet times, the search for unknown heroes, and the struggle to establish monuments. Today we will be talking about a lecture that took…

Interview with Dave Bloom

Posted On: July 2nd, 2019

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

Dave Bloom is a member of the board of an organization dedicated to preserving the story of two Jewish communities and surrounding areas in Ukraine. One of them is called Drohobycz and the other is…

Who was the creator of the Jewish Renaissance in Chernivtsi?

Posted On: June 24th, 2019

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

The historian Iryna Yavorska talks about “Jerusalem on the Prut River” after the war, Soviet propaganda, and the Yiddish language in Chernivtsi. Andriy Kobalia: The Second World War changed the face of many Ukrainian cities….

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