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    How did Belz turn into a “city of newcomers”? The story of the ruins of a frontier town

    Posted On: April 24th, 2019
    Posted In: Jews on Ukrainian Lands, Hromadske Radio, Sponsored Projects, History, Audio/Visual Media

    The regional historian Lyubov Khomyn talks about Belz Hasidism, the central square, and the town’s Jewish history. Andriy Kobalia:  This city is located three kilometers from the Polish border. In his research the historian Janusz...

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    History of the War beyond the Zbruch River and Jews in the Galician Army

    Posted On: April 15th, 2019
    Posted In: Jews on Ukrainian Lands, Hromadske Radio, Ukrainian- Jewish Relations History, Sponsored Projects, History, Audio/Visual Media

    Regional historian Petro Hutsal talks about Jewish military units in the Ukrainian Galician Army. In the fall of 1918 the Habsburg Empire fell after four years of war, and new states rose up from its...

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    How did Jews serve in the Russian, Austrian, and Soviet armies?

    Posted On: April 1st, 2019
    Posted In: Jews on Ukrainian Lands, Hromadske Radio, Sponsored Projects, History, Audio/Visual Media

    The historian Vladyslav Hrynevych spoke on the topic of Jews serving in the armies of the Romanovs, Habsburgs, and Bolsheviks. Historians often call the First World War the “Great War,” as it was the first...

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    Hava Nagila—the song, the story and the movie

    Posted On: March 21st, 2019
    Posted In: Nash Holos, Sponsored Projects, Culture, Music, Audio/Visual Media, Cinema

    Hava Nagila. The words are Hebrew for Let Us Rejoice. They also comprise the title of one of the most recognizable and well-known songs in the world. And little did I know just how appropriate a...

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    Jewish nomads, or was the Khazar Khanate a Jewish State?

    Posted On: March 19th, 2019
    Posted In: Jews on Ukrainian Lands, Hromadske Radio, Sponsored Projects, Audio/Visual Media, History

    The historian Shaul Stampfer discusses the religion of Khazaria The Khazar Khanate existed from the seventh to the tenth century. At the peak of its prosperity this nomadic Turkic state controlled the Northern Caucasus, the...

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    Interview with Ruth Ellen Gruber (Pt. 2)

    Posted On: March 6th, 2019
    Posted In: Literature, Nash Holos, Sponsored Projects, Culture, Audio/Visual Media

    Ruth Ellen Gruber is an American journalist, author, editor and researcher. Her book, Jewish Heritage Travel: A Guide to Eastern Europe, was first published twenty-five years ago and is still considered the most complete Jewish...

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    Interview with Ruth Ellen Gruber (Pt. 1)

    Posted On: February 28th, 2019
    Posted In: Literature, Nash Holos, Sponsored Projects, Culture, Audio/Visual Media

    Ruth Ellen Gruber is an American journalist, author, editor and researcher. She has published and lectured widely and has won several awards for her work on Jewish heritage and contemporary Jewish issues in Europe. Her...

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    Godless people’ or bearers of new knowledge? The history of Jewish educators in Ukraine

    Posted On: February 25th, 2019
    Posted In: Jews on Ukrainian Lands, Hromadske Radio, Sponsored Projects, History, Audio/Visual Media

    How Jews began leaving their ghettoes for the spacious streets of large European cities. The Age of Enlightenment began in Europe in the eighteenth century. In this new system of ethics, the supreme value was...

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    Commemorating the 1919 pogroms—a chat with the president of the Felshtin Society

    Posted On: February 14th, 2019
    Posted In: Jews on Ukrainian Lands, Nash Holos, Sponsored Projects, History, Audio/Visual Media

    Ukrainian Jewish Heritage is a series that has been ongoing here at Nash Holos for several years now, sponsored by the Ukrainian Jewish Encounter of Toronto. The series … for me and also, I hope,...

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    Josef Zissels ponders what the Babyn Yar Museum should be like

    Posted On: February 11th, 2019
    Posted In: Hromadske Radio, Sponsored Projects, The Holocaust in Ukraine, Audio/Visual Media, History, Diverse Voices

    The history behind the creation of various projects to memorialize Babyn Yar is recounted by Josef Zissels, a former dissident and the current co-president of the Association of Jewish Organizations and Communities, the VAAD of...

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      • All-Ukrainian student's drawing competition
      • Sheptytsky Award
      • Symposia
        • Israel’s Experience of Nation-Building: Lessons for Ukraine
      • Shared Historical Narrative
      • Exhibits
        • A Journey through the Ukrainian-Jewish Encounter
      • Outreach
        • Book Fairs/Festivals
        • Limmud FSU
        • World Jewish Congress
    • Sponsored Projects
      • Dukh i Litera Digital Library
      • Krytyka, "War is…"
      • Publications
        • eBook: "Jews and Ukrainians: A Millennium of Co-Existence"
      • Audio/Visual Media
        • Hromadske Radio
        • Nash Holos
        • Kontakt TV
        • Finding Babel
      • Other Programs
        • Hadashot
        • Agnon Literary Centre
        • Ukraina Moderna
        • Zahid.net
        • The Odessa Review
        • Israeli Friends of Ukraine
        • Istorychna Pravda
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    Ukrainian Jewish Encounter Timeline wins international recognition while countering Russian propaganda

    Ukrainians and Jews have lived as neighbours for centuries, creating and sharing enduring cultures that continue to inform their identities today. Ukrainian Jewish Encounter (UJE) is proud to present Part 1 of an integrated narrative of these two peoples in the belief that there is much to be gained by viewing their historical experience together, in all its complexity.

    Explore the UJE Timeline

    As Ukraine defends its very existence against Russia, the Ukrainian Jewish Encounter Timeline serves to counter the malicious and false narratives about Ukraine and its history. The Timeline demonstrates that Ukraine is home to diverse peoples and, for centuries, one of the world’s oldest and largest Jewish communities.

    Since its launch in September 2022, the UJE Timeline has earned international recognition by winning eight international awards:

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    • Excellence — Website Non-profit (2023)

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    • Silver — Website Non-profit (2023)
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    Encounter: The Ukrainian-Jewish Literary Prize  

    The 'Encounter' prize aims to build on the common experiences of Ukrainians and Jews over the centuries, expressed in literature and nonfiction. The Prize will be awarded annually to the most influential work in literature and nonfiction (in alternate years) that fosters Ukrainian-Jewish understanding, helping solidify Ukraine's place as a multi-ethnic society and giving truth to the motto, "Our stories are incomplete without each other."

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