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    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, History, Holodomor, Symposia

    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...

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    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...

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    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,...

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    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...

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    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.

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    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, The Holocaust in Ukraine, Audio/Visual Media, 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...

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    Nash Holos: Harry Lang and the Ukrainian Famine

    Posted On: August 15th, 2017
    Posted In: Nash Holos, Sponsored Projects, History, Audio/Visual Media, 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...

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    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...

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    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...

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        • Limmud FSU
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      • Dukh i Litera Digital Library
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        • eBook: "Jews and Ukrainians: A Millennium of Co-Existence"
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    Ukrainian Jewish Encounter Timeline wins international recognition while countering Russian propaganda

    Ukrainians and Jews have lived as neighbours for centuries, creating and sharing enduring cultures that continue to inform their identities today. Ukrainian Jewish Encounter (UJE) is proud to present Part 1 of an integrated narrative of these two peoples in the belief that there is much to be gained by viewing their historical experience together, in all its complexity.

    Explore the UJE Timeline

    As Ukraine defends its very existence against Russia, the Ukrainian Jewish Encounter Timeline serves to counter the malicious and false narratives about Ukraine and its history. The Timeline demonstrates that Ukraine is home to diverse peoples and, for centuries, one of the world’s oldest and largest Jewish communities.

    Since its launch in September 2022, the UJE Timeline has earned international recognition by winning eight international awards:

    Web Excellence Awards:

    • Excellence — Website Non-profit (2023)

    w3 Awards:

    • Silver — Website Non-profit (2023)
    • Silver — Website Best Structure and Navigation (2023)
    • Silver— Website Best Visual Appeal and Aesthetics (2023)

    Anthem Awards:

    • Bronze — Website Digital and Innovative Experiences (2024)

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    • Gold — Website Non-Profit (2024)
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    Encounter: The Ukrainian-Jewish Literary Prize  

    The 'Encounter' prize aims to build on the common experiences of Ukrainians and Jews over the centuries, expressed in literature and nonfiction. The Prize will be awarded annually to the most influential work in literature and nonfiction (in alternate years) that fosters Ukrainian-Jewish understanding, helping solidify Ukraine's place as a multi-ethnic society and giving truth to the motto, "Our stories are incomplete without each other."

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