Literary specialist and author of the book Lesia Ukrainka from A to Z discusses Jewish motifs in the texts of Larysa Kosach. Iryna Slavinska: Today we will be discussing a literary topic that is not…
Winter is upon us; it’s the perfect time to grab a book or eReader, curl into a warm corner and lose yourself into a story. This holiday season, the Ukrainian Jewish Encounter and the Agnon…
In December 2018, the Israeli Friends of Ukraine NGO continued its tradition of holding forums for Israelis which discuss problems of Ukrainian-Jewish history and critical moments in Ukrainian-Jewish relations. Based on the successful experience of…
The growing list of books published with the support of the Ukrainian Jewish Encounter were displayed at this year’s convention of The Association for Slavic, East European, & Eurasian Studies (ASEEES), held in Boston from…
UJE board member and University of Toronto professor Paul Robert Magocsi traveled throughout the U.S., Europe and Ukraine in 2018 to present the award-winning book Jews and Ukrainians: A Millennium of Co-Existence, a work he…
During the winter holidays, when markets were being held in cities, an encounter of various ethnic and religious communities in a single, common space took place on a central square. Diana Klochko is at the…
Ukrainian Jewish Encounter proudly supports two on-going media projects – Hromadske Radio’s Zustrichi program in Ukraine and Ukrainian Jewish Heritage that airs on Canada’s Nash Holos Ukrainian Roots Radio. In an effort to broaden the…
Despite the fact that almost half of all Jewish victims of the Nazi Holocaust were killed on the territory of the Soviet Union, their Jewish identity was for decades effaced by Soviet policy. It was…
Rohatyn is a city in western Ukraine with a centuries-old Jewish heritage that was almost completely destroyed by the Holocaust and its aftermath. Like many cities and towns across Ukraine, however, work is being done…
Yohanan Petrovsky-Shtern, who is a member of Ukrainian Jewish Encounter’s Academic Council, recently discussed two books he authored. Below are a transcript of his interview with Hromadske Radio about his book “Jews and Ukrainians: A…
