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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…

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…

Jewish American writer Mendel Osherowitz’s impressions of his trip to Ukraine in the winter of 1932

Posted On: December 17th, 2018

Posted In: Literature, History, Holodomor

Researchers of the Holodomor of 1932–1933 continue to overlook a book that was written by Mendel Osherowitz (b. 1884, Trostianets–d. 1965, New York), a Jewish American writer and journalist who wrote in Yiddish. His work,…

Focus on the 85th Anniversary of Ukraine’s Holodomor

Posted On: December 2nd, 2018

Posted In: Book Fairs/Festivals, Culture, History, Holodomor, Cinema, Outreach

The documentary film Hunger for Truth tells the story of Canadian-Jewish journalist Rhea Clyman. Although little known today, Clyman reached international acclaim in her day for her coverage of the Soviet Union, including the 1932-33…

Poroshenko, his wife honor memory of Holodomor victims

Source: UNIAN

Posted On: November 26th, 2018

Posted In: History, Holodomor

President Petro Poroshenko and his wife Maryna Poroshenko have honored memory of the victims of the Holodomor of 1932-1933 in Ukraine.

How and what do we want to remember? The Historian Andriy Portnov discusses genocides in Ukraine

Posted On: July 30th, 2018

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

The historian Andriy Portnov is at the Encounters studio today. Our conversation is pegged to the annual roundtable “Ukrainian Society and the Memory of the Holocaust: Scholarly and Educational Aspects,” which took place on 27…

Nash Holos: Harry Lang and the Ukrainian Famine

Posted On: August 15th, 2017

Posted In: Nash Holos, Sponsored Projects, Audio/Visual Media, History, Holodomor

Welcome to Ukrainian Jewish Heritage on Nash Holos Ukrainian Roots Radio. I’m Peter Bejger. Today we begin with a dispatch from the past. “Kiev in the morning. A lot of people are already walking on…

New Chapters in the Ukrainian-Jewish Relationship Explored at Canada’s Limmud FSU (Part 1) – Rhea Clyman

Posted On: April 19th, 2017

Posted In: UJE Initiatives, Limmud FSU, History, Holodomor, Outreach

The story of a Poland-born Jewish journalist navigating Soviet Ukraine to bring to the international community the story of a man-famine of 1932-1933 on that territory. A discussion of stereotypes and misperceptions between Ukrainians and…

Bitter Harvest

Posted On: March 14th, 2017

Posted In: Culture, History, Holodomor, Cinema

The Ukrainian novelist Oksana Zabuzhko once wrote, “We, the poor relatives of the European household, have but a meager chance of being heard in the post-informational world.” Zabuzhko was writing for a specifically Western readership…