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  • Vitaly Portnikov: Shevchenko was not an antisemite

    Posted On: March 29th, 2021
    Posted In: Commentary, Ukrainian- Jewish Relations History, History, Commentary and Analysis

    [Editor’s note: This article by renowned journalist Vitaly Portinikov originally appeared in November 2018.] One hundred and sixty years ago, in November 1858, the journal Russkii vestnik (Russian Messenger) published a letter written by a...

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    The Ukrainian question in the world perception of Jabotinsky the Zionist

    Posted On: March 24th, 2021
    Posted In: Jews on Ukrainian Lands, Ukrainian- Jewish Relations History, History

    Copyright © 2021 RFE/RL, Inc. Reprinted by permission of Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty He was born in Odesa, studied in Switzerland, Italy, Austria, France, and Palestine, and died near New York City. In keeping with...

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    From the Carpathians to the mountains of Galilee: The 100th anniversary of the "Galician project" to foster the rebirth of Israel

    Posted On: March 18th, 2021
    Posted In: Commentary, Ukrainian- Jewish Relations History, History, Commentary and Analysis

    One hundred years ago, in the spring of 1921, an experiment that became the stuff of Zionist legend ended. Myths were created and scores of books and plays were written about Bitanya-Ilit (in the Lower...

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    Chaim Radbil: How a Jewish socialist became a deputy of the Central Rada

    Posted On: February 16th, 2021
    Posted In: Hadashot, Jews on Ukrainian Lands, Ukrainian- Jewish Relations History, Sponsored Projects, Other Programs, History

    Chaim Radbil was a participant in the two Russian revolutions, a deputy of the Ukrainian Central Rada, counselor of the Vinnytsia Duma, lawyer, publisher, and journalist—an individual of whom his native city of Vinnytsia can...

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    The daughter of a “batiar”: Ukrainian woman recognized as Righteous Among the Nations in Israel

    Posted On: August 27th, 2020
    Posted In: Ukrainian- Jewish Relations History, The Holocaust in Ukraine, History

    Why did her family save Jews during the Holocaust? What was the truth behind survival and the ordinariness of death during the occupation through the eyes of a child? I spoke about all this with...

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    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...

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    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 antisemite? Who was the first Jewish voice in Ukrainian literature? And why did Jews in the shtetls keep Ukrainian theaters...

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    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...

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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...

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    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...

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