"We wanted to show what cities had lost as a result of the Holocaust": Tetiana Vodotyka on the "MIK" journal's themed issue

Posted In: Hromadske Radio, Jews on Ukrainian Lands, Sponsored Projects, The Holocaust in Ukraine, History

[Editor's note: Russia's unprovoked and criminal war against Ukraine suspended the regular work of many organizations, reorienting their efforts. So it is with the Ukrainian Jewish Encounter. We are occasionally running interviews and articles done...

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"I feel very confident now as a Jewish Ukrainian": executive director of Project Kesher Ukraine

Posted On: August 9th, 2023
Posted In: Jews on Ukrainian Lands, Hromadske Radio, Sponsored Projects, Culture, History, Audio/Visual Media, Language, Ethnography

Project Kesher Ukraine is a national Ukrainian Jewish women's civic organization that supports female entrepreneurs, promotes gender equality, and encourages Jewish women to preserve their people's traditions and pass them on to the next generation....

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"In the past 16 years, there have been many challenges but none like the present one": Director of the Antykvar Publishing House

Posted On: July 31st, 2023
Posted In: Hromadske Radio, Literature, Sponsored Projects, Culture, Audio/Visual Media

A conversation with Hanna Sherman, editor-in-chief of the Antykvar magazine, director of the Antykvar Publishing House, theater specialist, and lecturer at the Kyiv National I. K. Karpenko-Karyi University of Theatre, Cinema, and Television. Antykvar [Antiquarian]...

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We have managed to largely overcome harmful Soviet lies about historical Ukrainian-Jewish relations — Leonid Finberg

Posted On: June 30th, 2023
Posted In: Hromadske Radio, Ukrainian- Jewish Relations History, Sponsored Projects, Literature, Culture, Audio/Visual Media, History

A conversation with Leonid Finberg, director of the Center for the Studies of History and Culture of East European Jewry, editor-in-chief of the Dukh i Litera Publishing House, and member of PEN Ukraine. Yelyzaveta Tsarehradska:...

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"Before the Bolshevik coup, relations between Jews and Ukrainians were very warm," says the translator of the "Stawiszcze Memorial Book"

Posted On: April 25th, 2023
Posted In: Jews on Ukrainian Lands, Hromadske Radio, Literature, Sponsored Projects, Culture, History, Audio/Visual Media

[Editor's note: Russia's unprovoked and criminal war against Ukraine suspended the regular work of many organizations, reorienting their efforts. So it is with the Ukrainian Jewish Encounter. We are occasionally running interviews and articles done...

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We will have to live in wartime conditions until Russia disintegrates and democratic states emerge on our borders — Josef Zissels

Posted In: Hromadske Radio, Sponsored Projects, Ukrainian statehood and identity, Audio/Visual Media, Diverse Voices

How is our identity changing during the full-scale war with Russia, and how is this identity changing in Ukraine's ethnic communities? Chernivtsi recently hosted the annual festival Meridian Czernowitz, whose co-founder and constant guest is...

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Boris Khersonskiy: Ukrainians and Jews are two peoples who have experienced historical traumas of destruction

Posted In: Hromadske Radio, Agnon Literary Centre, Literature, Sponsored Projects, Culture, Audio/Visual Media, Other Programs

[Editor's note: Each year, UJE offers literature to read during the holiday season. Despite Russia's genocidal war against Ukraine, we continue this tradition. Ukrainian literature and culture persevere in the face of extreme difficulties. Over...

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