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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.

President of Ukraine: The Holodomor is a tragedy that a normal person will not wish even on his enemies

Source: president.gov.ua

Posted On: November 25th, 2019

Posted In: History, Holodomor

The losses of Ukraine from the Holodomor of 1932-1933 are comparable to the losses in World War II. These are pages of Ukrainian history that cannot be forgotten, as stated by President Volodymyr Zelenskyy during the events commemorating the victims of the Holodomor in Ukraine near the National Museum of the Holodomor-Genocide.

Rescuing places of remembrance from oblivion

Posted On: November 14th, 2019

Posted In: Commentary, The Holocaust in Ukraine, History, Commentary and Analysis

JERUSALEM – The Valley of the Communities at Yad Vashem, Israel’s official Holocaust memorial, is perched high atop Mount Herzl, surrounded by pine trees and silence. On this particular day, an evening breeze has cooled…

Magocsi and Petrovsky-Shtern on Jews and Ukrainians

Posted On: October 30th, 2019

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

UJE board member Paul Robert Magocsi has traveled extensively over the last two years promoting Jews and Ukrainians: A Millennium of Co-Existence, the book he co-authored with Yohanan Petrovsky-Shtern. This spring, the two authors surprised…

Ivan Franko and his Jews: childhood, student years, politics

Posted On: October 28th, 2019

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

I will try to define Franko’s attitude to Jews, which ranges from sincere Judeophilism to radical Judeophobia. This ambiguity in the interpretation of his views intensified after the fall of the communist regime in Ukraine….

Yiddish, in place and time

Posted On: October 25th, 2019

Posted In: Commentary, Jews on Ukrainian Lands, Culture, History, Commentary and Analysis, Language

CHERNIVTSI — I wanted to hear Yiddish. The Yiddish that Wolf Moskovich – professor emeritus of the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, board member of the Ukrainian Jewish Encounter and Chernivtsi native – spoke about only…

Moskovich discussed multi-ethnic Chernivtsi and Bukovyna in Stockholm lecture

Posted On: October 23rd, 2019

Posted In: UJE Initiatives, Jews on Ukrainian Lands, Symposia, History

Bukovyna inspires the imagination. Sitting at the crossroads of great empires, this Ukrainian region was home to a myriad of writers, artists, musicians and ethnic groups, each who forever left their imprint. Wolf Moskovich, Board…

Dr. Diana Dumitru: No direct evidence yet of Stalin’s planned deportation of the Jews

Posted On: October 7th, 2019

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

What are the causes of postwar anti-Semitism in the USSR, how was cosmopolitanism combated on the ground, and is the theory about the deportation of Jews to the Far East in 1953 justified? These are…

Mykhailo Hrushevskyi: “After a nightmare” (the Beilis trial)

Posted On: September 25th, 2019

Posted In: Ukrainian- Jewish Relations History, History

[Editor’s note: In 1913, Mykhailo Hrushevskyi wrote an article in Lviv’s Literaturno-naukovyi vistnyk in the aftermath of the trial of Mendel Beilis. Beilis, a Jew, had been accused of ritual murder in Kyiv and was…

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