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UCHS Library of Holocaust Memoirs: “The Lone Survivor”

Posted On: May 22nd, 2020

Posted In: Publications, Literature, Sponsored Projects, Culture

[Editor’s note: The Ukrainian Jewish Encounter was founded in 2008 with the goal of building stronger relations between Ukrainians and Jews, two peoples who for centuries lived side by side on the territory of what…

How the Europe Island Festival works with “chamber” languages: The history of Hebrew and Yiddish

Posted On: May 20th, 2020

Posted In: Hromadske Radio, Sponsored Projects, Audio/Visual Media, Culture, Language

Today we will be talking about literature and translation. It is especially gratifying to be discussing all this via the example of a young, very ambitious, and successful festival called Europe Island, which is held…

Blog: “Don’t mention the war”: does Europe need a shared historical narrative of WW2?

Source: Ukrainian Institute London

Posted On: May 19th, 2020

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On the eve of VE day, Ukrainian Institute London and the Henry Jackson Society held a lively discussion about whether Europe needs a shared narrative of World War Two.

The history of Jewish theater in Ukraine: an interview with Iryna Meleshkina, part 2

Posted On: May 14th, 2020

Posted In: Hromadske Radio, Sponsored Projects, Culture, Theatre

We are continuing our conversation about Jewish theater. In the first part we talked about the founding of Jewish theater and its work on the territory of contemporary Ukraine from the late nineteenth century until…

The history of Jewish theater in Ukraine: an interview with Iryna Meleshkina, part 1

Posted On: May 13th, 2020

Posted In: Hromadske Radio, Sponsored Projects, Audio/Visual Media, Culture, Theatre

We are talking about Jewish theater in Ukraine and the publication Wandering Stars in Ukraine: Pages from the History of Jewish Theater. Our guest in the studio today is the theater critic Iryna Meleshkina, who…

Myth overcomes History

Posted On: May 11th, 2020

Posted In: Agnon Literary Centre, Sponsored Projects, Other Programs

From ancient times a story has drifted through various cultures about remarkable masters who are destroyed or maimed by a powerful client so that they will never again create something similar for anyone else. This…

Video: “Don’t mention the war”: does Europe need a shared historical narrative of WWII?”

Posted On: May 6th, 2020

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May 4, 2020 Online webinar, 6:00-7:15 p.m. (London, England) As Europe is to mark the 75th anniversary of the end of WW2, national narratives of those historic events hugely differ across Europe. Identity and historical…

“If we help and take care of each other, more people will survive these times”: Josef Zissels

Posted On: May 6th, 2020

Posted In: Commentary, Hromadske Radio, Sponsored Projects, Audio/Visual Media, Commentary and Analysis

The former dissident Josef Zissels, who heads the Association of the Jewish Organizations and Communities of Ukraine and is the executive vice-president of the Congress of Ethnic Communities of Ukraine, talked about changes in civic society,…

Oleksii Chupa: “What’s behind this door?”

Posted On: May 4th, 2020

Posted In: Agnon Literary Centre, Sponsored Projects, Other Programs

I am still plagued by the thought: What did Agnon feel after returning home? I am trying to imagine this in more detail: How an incredulous expression appears on his face when the train is…

A city of the past and the future

Posted On: April 27th, 2020

Posted In: Agnon Literary Centre, Sponsored Projects, Other Programs

The small cities of western Ukraine truly amaze the residents of eastern Ukraine, which also has beautiful and unforgettable large cities: Odesa, Kharkiv—and Kyiv, after all. But the former provincial cities of eastern Ukraine, if…

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