A new documentary film by the Kharkiv-based director Borys Shusterman, screened recently in Israel, spotlights the residents of the Ukrainian village of Bobrovyi Kut, in the Kherson region, and their profound and painful awareness of…
[Editor’s note: The non-profit group Israeli Friends of Ukraine and Ukrainian Jewish Encounter recently held a joint conference in Tel Aviv that explored the Ukrainian-Jewish relationship and historical memory. So readers may learn more about…
Two writers, two politicians. Two outstanding public figures. And two intriguing viewpoints on the historic challenges of Ukrainian-Jewish relations. The Ukrainian writer Ivan Franko passed away in 1916. The Zionist leader Vladimir Jabotinsky was from…
Iryna Slavinska: This is Iryna Slavinska on Hromadske Radio for the program Encounters, which is made possible by the Canadian non-profit organization Ukrainian Jewish Encounter. Today we are speaking with Leonid Finberg, the editor-in-chief of…
The tragic moments of Ukrainian and Jewish history were discussed at a three-day seminar entitled “Jews and Ukrainians: Controversial Issues of Historical Memory,” which ended late last week in Tel Aviv. The focus of the…
Today, two perspectives on loss and memory. “I close my eyes and I can hear the bells…ringing; each one rings differently. I can hear the splash of the fountains on the Marketplace, and the soughing…
What is a book? As the train from Lviv races back to Kyiv after a trip that has taken our organization to Uzhhorod, Bershad, Kamianets-Podilskyi, Chernivtsi, Paris, and then Lviv, the question consumes me. I…
Baby Yar: History and Memory was named one of the best books of the Lviv Book Forum at a ceremony that took place at the city’s famed opera house on 14 September 2017. “We are very…
[Editor’s note: The Lviv Book Forum will take place this year from September 13-17. As it has in the past, the Ukrainian Jewish Encounter will host a variety of events, from book presentations to panel…
Andriy Kobalia: I think we should begin by saying that nearly 2,500 Ukrainians have been recognized as Righteous Among the Nations. In Ukraine, the first mass killings of the Jewish population by Nazi troops began…