History - Page 2 of 24 - UJE - Ukrainian Jewish Encounter

Until 1930 Yiddish was heard on the streets of Rivne, where Jews formed 70 percent of the city’s population — Maksym Hon

Posted On: July 26th, 2021

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

Our guest today is Maksym Hon, Doctor of Political Science, professor, head of the civic organization Mnemonics, and a specialist in Ukrainian-Jewish relations during the first half of the twentieth century in western Ukraine. Vasyl...

At the beginning of the 20th century, Boryslav was the world’s third-largest producer of oil after Pennsylvania and Baku — Vladyslava Moskalets

Posted On: July 21st, 2021

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

A conversation about “Galician California,” Bruno Schulz, oil, [Habsburg emperor] Franz Josef, and Jewish life in Western Ukraine. Our guest on today’s program is Dr. Vladyslava Moskalets, Senior Lecturer in the Department of History at...

“I am not afraid of death”

Posted On: July 19th, 2021

Posted In: Zahid.net, Sponsored Projects, The Holocaust in Ukraine, History

A rescue during the Holocaust Since 2012, the European Day of the Righteous has been celebrated on 6 March. For more than half a century, the special commission of Yad Vashem, the World Holocaust Remembrance...

A historian explains how a small, victorious war led to the pogroms of 1905

Posted On: July 14th, 2021

Posted In: Hromadske Radio, Ukrainian- Jewish Relations History, Sponsored Projects, History

Andrii Portnov, a history professor at European University Viadrina, talks about antisemitism in Ukrainian cities of the Russian Empire, “riots of minors,” and parallels with the year 2014 in the Donbas. After a small, victorious war...

Our society perceives the arrival of Hasidim in Uman as the influx of a foreign culture to the land of Ukraine, but this is a mistaken belief”: Marharyta Yehorchenko

Posted On: July 12th, 2021

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

Our guest on the show is the literary specialist Marharyta Yehorchenko, editor and compiler of the publication Jewish Addresses of Ukraine (Dukh i Litera, 2020). Vasyl Shandro: Are we talking about these addresses exclusively in...

How Metropolitan Sheptytsky blessed Zionism and the creation of a Jewish state

Posted On: July 8th, 2021

Posted In: Ukrainian- Jewish Relations History, History, Diverse Voices, Metropolitan Andrei Sheptytsky

Eighty-seven years ago, in early July 1934, the representatives of two different worlds met at the metropolitan's residence on St. George's Terrace in the Lviv of the time. Count Andrei Sheptytsky, Metropolitan of the Ukrainian...

"Our village is not treacherous"

Posted On: July 7th, 2021

Posted In: Zahid.net, Sponsored Projects, The Holocaust in Ukraine, Other Programs, History

Unification for the sake of salvation Two thousand six hundred and fifty-nine people—that is the number of Ukrainian Righteous Among the Nations announced by Yad Vashem as of 1 January 2020. This figure will be...

Explaining the location of the mass shootings at Babyn Yar on September 29-30, 1941

Posted On: June 30th, 2021

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

Martin Dean, Historical Consultant to the BYHMC 9/28/2020 Where exactly did the SS and Police conduct the mass shootings at Babyn Yar on September 29-30, 1941, in which more than 33,000 Jews were shot, and...

Will Hlukhiv become the second Uman?

Posted On: June 29th, 2021

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

In the summer of 2020, a monument to the victims of the anti-Jewish pogrom of 1918 was unveiled at the ancient Jewish cemetery in Hlukhiv, on the initiative of the chairman of that city’s Jewish...

Video: Memory Politics: Historical issues and modern Jewish-Ukrainian relations

Posted On: June 25th, 2021

Posted In: UJE Initiatives, Ukrainian- Jewish Relations History, Symposia, History

This 24 June 2021 discussion was devoted to “Memory Politics: Historical issues and modern Jewish-Ukrainian relations” with the participation of Wendy Lower, John K. Roth Chair at Claremont McKenna College in Claremont, California and the...

Discover Categories: