UJE Board Member Wolf Moskovich lectured in Paris on 5 October 2018, following his moving discussion with Holocaust survivor Lili Stern-Pohlmann in London the previous day to discuss the legacy of Andrei Sheptytsky, the Metropolitan…
We are speaking with the president of the Ukrainian Association for Jewish Studies about the multidisciplinary research being done at young Ukrainian universities. Andriy Kobalia: In Ukraine today Jewish Studies, that is, Judaica, are offered…
“They saved other people’s children risking their own” was the title of the lecture delivered by Dr. Igor Shchupak, Director of the “Tkuma” Ukrainian Institute for Holocaust Studies in Dnipro, Ukraine, that was attended by…
Why did the Jews of Kyiv have the writings of Rambam translated into the Ruthenian language? How did the Jewish elite of the Rzeczpospolita [the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, 1569-1795—Ed.] drive out their fellow community members from…
The historian Maksym Gon talks about the Jewish community against the background of the [post-First World War] Ukrainian-Polish confrontation, Ukrainian-Jewish cooperation during elections in Poland, and the Jews of Bukovyna and Transcarpathia in the interwar…
The penal institutions in which the Soviet Union imprisoned dissenters had as their purported aim not simply the act of isolating and punishing political opponents but also of “correcting”, or “re-educating” them. It is therefore…
For much of the history of Ukraine, it was difficult to speak of anything akin to Ukrainian-Jewish relations. Jewish assimilation into the broader Ukrainian society was always a complex issue, but myriad connections and positive…
The historian Volodymyr Liubchenko talks about the difficult relationship between Jews and the Cossack Sich in the eighteenth century, the haidamaka rebels, and myths around this period. Andriy Kobalia: Good day. This is the program…
The historian Oley Bashan discusses repressions against Ukrainians and Jews in the second half of the 1940s and the early 1950s. Andrei Kobalia: How did Ukrainian society perceive Jews in the 1930s and 1940s, during…
We speak with the historian Anatoly Podolsky, director of the Ukrainian Center for Holocaust Studies, about the Beilis Affair in Kyiv, the [Russian] occupation of Lviv in 1914-15, and other topics. Andriy Kobalia: Before we…
