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    UJE announces new project "War is…" in cooperation with Ukraine's Krytyka magazine

    Posted On: March 6th, 2023
    Posted In: Literature, Sponsored Projects, Krytyka, "War is…", Culture

    Russia's invasion of Ukraine on 24 February 2022 shocked the world. For months, Western governments had warned of the impending criminal war — "absurd," the world responded. In the 21st century, larger powers invading smaller...

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    The defense of humanity

    Posted On: November 30th, 2023
    Posted In: Sponsored Projects, Krytyka, "War is…"

    By Iya Kiva Originally appeared @Krytyka In war, poetry is definitely not a soldier. It’s more like a shout instead of a gunshot. That’s why Ukrainian poets often remind me of people who, after a...

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    According to the original

    Posted On: November 23rd, 2023
    Posted In: Sponsored Projects, Krytyka, "War is…"

    By Svitlana Oslavska Originally appeared @Krytyka What we, journalists, and all war documentarians are doing today is a memorial. Russia failed to conceal its actions from the world and from history. Testimonies of these atrocities...

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    War is not only about heroes

    Posted On: November 16th, 2023
    Posted In: Krytyka, "War is…", Sponsored Projects

    By Andriy Lyubka Originally appeared @Krytyka War is about more than heroes and valor. In essence, war touches every one of us, even those who are far from the front line and without shrapnel wounds....

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    Postwar, continued

    Posted On: November 9th, 2023
    Posted In: Sponsored Projects, Krytyka, "War is…"

    By Oksana Forostyna  Originally appeared @Krytyka In March 2022, I wrote a piece for Krytyka called “Postwar.” Parts of Kyiv and Kharkiv oblasts, as well as the Chornobyl Nuclear Power Plant, were still occupied then,...

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    Signs of trouble, Signs of hope

    Posted On: November 6th, 2023
    Posted In: Sponsored Projects, Krytyka, "War is…"

    Originally appeared @Krytyka By Kostiantyn Moskalets It was a gloomy November 2021. There were more than enough signs of the trouble that was coming. Let’s just say that I surprised myself by setting aside all...

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    Bearing witness to the war

    Posted On: October 31st, 2023
    Posted In: Sponsored Projects, Krytyka, "War is…"

    Originally appeared @Krytyka By Bohdana Matiyash We’re talking about the war, we are telling ourselves and then the world about the crimes the Russians have perpetrated in our land with that faith that someday this...

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    Apocalypse Now?

    Posted On: October 26th, 2023
    Posted In: Sponsored Projects, Krytyka, "War is…"

    By Stanislav Aseyev Originally appeared @Krytyka Today, the situation is different: for the second year, Ukraine's collective consciousness is exhuming mass graves and burying children killed by Russian missiles, whereas just beyond Ukraine's borders the...

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    How dead Russian culture kills Ukrainians

    Posted On: June 12th, 2023
    Posted In: Sponsored Projects, Krytyka, "War is…"

      Volodymyr Rafeyenko We have no other option but Victory, for which and for the sake of which we are all living. This event, whenever it happens, will be the biggest event in everyone’s life....

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    Life in the Reality of War

    Posted On: March 6th, 2023
    Posted In: Literature, Sponsored Projects, Krytyka, "War is…", Culture

    Vitaly Portnikov, March 2023 For a journalist, war is work. In this sense, a journalist’s work is more akin to that of a soldier or a doctor. Choosing this profession — if it is a...

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        • Israel’s Experience of Nation-Building: Lessons for Ukraine
      • Shared Historical Narrative
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        • A Journey through the Ukrainian-Jewish Encounter
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        • Limmud FSU
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        • Finding Babel
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