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Unique document from Ukraine put up for auction in Jerusalem

Posted On: February 20th, 2020

Posted In: Jews on Ukrainian Lands, Culture, History, Religion

The Kedem Public Auction House held an unusual auction in the capital of Israel in July 2019. Whereas hundreds of lots and large collections are usually put up for auction, this time the entire auction…

“Making the Holocaust part of Ukrainian experience”. Panel discussion at Jewish Museum London 26 January 2020

Posted On: February 12th, 2020

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

On the eve of Holocaust Memorial Day, the Ukrainian Institute London held an important and timely panel discussion on how the Holocaust is remembered in Ukraine, in partnership with the Jewish Museum London and supported…

Ukraine: Holocaust and Memory. Panel discussion and artwork display in London

Posted On: February 10th, 2020

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

Between 1939 and 1945, over a million Jews were murdered in the “Holocaust by Bullets” in Ukraine. During this period, three occupations swept the country: Soviet, Nazi and Soviet again, leading to between 8 and…

From Chufut-Kale to Lenindorf: How Jews arrived in Crimea

Posted On: February 3rd, 2020

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

The historian Mykhailo Tiahly discusses the Krymchaks and Karaites, and the peninsula’s Jewish history. The historian Serhii Plokhy calls Ukraine the “gates of Europe,” a country on the border of East and West. Owing to…

A historian and compiler of a scholarly collection explains how the Jews joined the Ukrainian Revolution

Posted On: January 15th, 2020

Posted In: Hromadske Radio, Ukrainian- Jewish Relations History, Sponsored Projects, Audio/Visual Media, History

The historian Serhiy Hirik discusses a collection of articles entitled The Jews of Ukraine: Revolution and Post-Revolutionary Modernization. Serhiy Hirik: This book is based on papers that were presented at the conference “The Jews of…

Myroslav Shkandrij: “There are problems in Ukraine that are challenging historians, writers, and civil society”

Posted On: December 18th, 2019

Posted In: Hadashot, Ukrainian- Jewish Relations History, Sponsored Projects, Other Programs, History, Diverse Voices

How did the stereotype of the “keys to the church” arise? Was Taras Shevchenko an anti-Semite? Who was the first Jewish voice in Ukrainian literature? And why did Jews in the shtetls keep Ukrainian theaters…

Presentation of Grzegorz Gauden’s Book “Lviv: the End of Illusions”

Posted On: December 11th, 2019

Posted In: UJE Initiatives, Book Fairs/Festivals, Literature, Ukrainian- Jewish Relations History, Culture, History, Outreach

Grzegorz Gauden, Lviv: the End of Illusions, Lviv, 19 September 2019, (In Ukrainian and Polish). Ukrainian Jewish Encounter (UJE) is a Canadian philanthropic organization that has been working since 2008 to strengthen relations between our…

Historian Vasyl Rasevych: Why is Ukraine’s politics of memory in competition with the Jewish and Polish ones?

Posted On: December 5th, 2019

Posted In: Commentary, History, Holodomor, Commentary and Analysis

Why is Ukraine’s politics of memory in competition with the Jewish and Polish ones, how the Lonsky Prison Museum forgot about the Lviv pogrom, and why are we being caught on the hook of Russian…

When the word kills or saves

Posted On: December 5th, 2019

Posted In: Ukrainian- Jewish Relations History, Israeli Friends of Ukraine, Sponsored Projects, The Holocaust in Ukraine, Other Programs, History, Holodomor

The international seminar “When the Word Kills or Saves: Church Leaders, Intellectual Authorities, and the Press during the Holocaust and the Holodomor” was held in the Israeli city of Acre in November 2019. For the…

Ukraine honours two Poles for presenting truth about The Great Famine

Source: thefirstnews.com

Posted On: December 3rd, 2019

Posted In: History, Holodomor

Polish film director Agnieszka Holland and the American-Polish journalist and publicist Anne Applebaum have been honoured with high state distinctions by Ukraine for their work on portraying the truth about The Great Famine of 1932-33.

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