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…
The Leningrad writer [Mikhail Kheifets] ends up behind KGB bars then in a camp in Mordovia, where the entire crème de la crème of the Ukrainian, Lithuanian, Armenian, Zionist, and other anti-communist resistance movements are…
Photo essay: A little-known page of Ukraine’s national history. Below is a photo essay about efforts to create Jewish colonies in the south of Ukraine and in Crimea with the help of Jewish organizations in…
“I sat down and began thinking about Jews and Ukrainians. About Ukrainians, who so extolled Ukraine to me, and about Jews, who are afraid of answering a telephone call from a Jews. And Tevye’s words…
It is generally known that the city of Lviv is the birthplace of the Polish and Ukrainian scout movements: harcerstwo and Plast, respectively. However, to this day hardly anyone is aware that the capital of…
In 2019 we will be marking eighty years since the date of the most large-scale projects to publish Yiddish-language translations of [Taras] Shevchenko’s works. Two volumes of Dovid Hofshteyn’s translations finally came out in 1939:…
The State of Israel was created and built by Jewish settlers who came mainly from Eastern Europe. Among them were quite a few natives of Ukraine, especially from central (Dnipro) Ukraine, which was part of…
[Editor’s note: Irene Nemirovsky joins Aharon Appelfeld and Amos Oz as a writer with deep ties to Ukraine, but who is still largely unknown by the country’s citizens. 24 February 2019 marks the 116th anniversary…
Ukrainians and Poles in those days [late nineteenth century—Ed.] lived “together and apart” at one and the same time. They were divided by ethnic, religious, social, and other barriers. There was also this: Ruthenian [Ukrainian]…
Ukrainian Jewish Encounter proudly supports two on-going media projects – Hromadske Radio’s Zustrichi program in Ukraine and Ukrainian Jewish Heritage that airs on Canada’s Nash Holos Ukrainian Roots Radio. In an effort to broaden the…
