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Mykola Krasovsky: From the Beilis affair to the Intelligence Service of the Ukrainian National Republic

Posted On: September 24th, 2019

Posted In: Ukrainian- Jewish Relations History, Sponsored Projects, Istorychna Pravda, Other Programs, History

[Editor’s note: In Kyiv in 1913 Mendel Beilis, a Jew, was accused of the ritual murder of Andrii Yushchynsky, a 13-year-old Ukrainian boy. Mykola Krasovsky, the lead investigator of the Kyiv Police Department, carried out…

Literary Residency continued in Buchach with UJE support

Posted On: September 12th, 2019

Posted In: Publications, Sponsored Projects

With the support of the Ukrainian Jewish Encounter, a Canadian charitable foundation, the Agnon Literary Center announces the literary residency in Buchach to be held in September-November 2019. This is a short-term guest residency that…

A dialogue between Buchach (Ukraine) and Israel: Maryana Maksymiak

Posted On: September 9th, 2019

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

Maryana Maksymiak on the Agnon Literary Center in Buchach and Agnon House in Jerusalem. Iryna Slavinska: Maryna Maksymiak recently returned from a trip to Israel, where the work of the Agnon Center was presented. Many…

A Ukrainian bomb, a Polish target, a Jewish victim

Posted On: September 5th, 2019

Posted In: Ukrainian- Jewish Relations History, Sponsored Projects, Istorychna Pravda, Other Programs, History

The arrival of the only president of Poland to visit Lviv during the interwar period was overshadowed by an assassination attempt that was organized by the Ukrainian underground. A Jew named Stanisław Steiger was caught…

Lost Shtetls of Ukraine

Posted On: August 26th, 2019

Posted In: Jews on Ukrainian Lands, Nash Holos, Sponsored Projects, Audio/Visual Media, History

The Jewish population of Ukraine before the Second World War was over 2.5 million. Now the current population is only around 100,000. A whole world with its very own culture, rules, and customs was decimated…

Publisher explains why bestselling author links religion to innovations

Posted On: August 19th, 2019

Posted In: Hromadske Radio, Sponsored Projects, Diverse Voices

Publisher Oksana Forostyna talks about Israeli ingenuity, the innovation boom, and Avi Jorisch’s new book. Iryna Slavinska: Today’s program is devoted to an unusual topic. We will be talking about Israel and innovations. Our focus…

Historian Serhiy Hirik: Why the UNR’s slogans were reminiscent of Bolshevik ones

Posted On: July 29th, 2019

Posted In: Hadashot, Jews on Ukrainian Lands, Sponsored Projects, Other Programs, History

[Editor’s note: In an effort to broaden the discussion of Ukrainian-Jewish interactions and relations, the Ukrainian Jewish Encounter proudly supports independent media projects. Along with Ukraine’s Hromadske Radio and Istorychna Pravda and Nash Holos in…

A conversation with Diane Covert, an American Jewish photographer who documents genocide and terrorism

Posted On: July 23rd, 2019

Posted In: Nash Holos, Sponsored Projects, Audio/Visual Media, Culture, Visual Arts

Diane Covert is a Boston-based photographer who uses her talent and love of the craft to bring attention to genocide and terrorism. Diane’s work was brought to my attention by Allison Zivin at the Felshtin…

Memory of the Holocaust during the Soviet period: permitted and proscribed practices

Posted On: July 15th, 2019

Posted In: Hromadske Radio, Sponsored Projects, Audio/Visual Media, The Holocaust in Ukraine, History

The historian Iryna Sklokina discusses the unofficial memory of the Holocaust during Soviet times, the search for unknown heroes, and the struggle to establish monuments. Today we will be talking about a lecture that took…

Tales from the Hutsul region, the meeting place of Oleksa Dovbush and Ba`al Shem Tov

Posted On: July 10th, 2019

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

Our featured guest today is Boris Czerny, who teaches Russian language and culture at the University of Caen Normandy in France. On today’s edition of Encounters, we have an opportunity to get to know a…

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