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    He purchased planes for the UNR and published Ukrainian books. Who was Yakiv Orenstein?

    Posted On: February 24th, 2025
    Posted In: Jews on Ukrainian Lands, Hromadske Radio, Sponsored Projects, History, Audio/Visual Media

    In this episode of the Encounters program, we discuss the life and professional activities of the outstanding book publisher Yakiv Orenstein. Why little is known about Yakiv Orenstein Yelyzaveta Tsarehradska: Our guest today is Professor...

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    The streets reflect the color of longing: Debora Vogel and the limits of commemoration

    Posted On: February 17th, 2025
    Posted In: Jews on Ukrainian Lands, Sponsored Projects, Ukraina Moderna, History, Other Programs

    The last wave of street renaming in Lviv, on which many hopes had been pinned, has also brought a number of disappointments, revealing that social trends change very slowly. On the one hand, the rejection...

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    Maksym Gon: "To understand life truly, I had to be in a dugout and experience fear in its undisguised form"

    Posted On: February 3rd, 2025
    Posted In: Sponsored Projects, Ukrainian statehood and identity, Ukraina Moderna, Other Programs, Diverse Voices

    In the following interview, the Ukrainian historian and political scientist Maksym Gon discusses the impact of his service in the Armed Forces of Ukraine (ZSU) on comprehending the past, particularly the history of the Second...

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    Chapter 12.2: "Jews and Ukrainians: A Millennium of Co-Existence"

    Posted On: January 29th, 2025
    Posted In: eBook: "Jews and Ukrainians: A Millennium of Co-Existence", Sponsored Projects, Publications

    Jews and Ukrainians: A Millennium of Co-Existence is an award-winning book that explores the relationship between two of Ukraine’s most historically significant peoples over the centuries. In its second edition, the book tells the story of...

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    Chapter 12.1: "Jews and Ukrainians: A Millennium of Co-Existence"

    Posted On: January 22nd, 2025
    Posted In: eBook: "Jews and Ukrainians: A Millennium of Co-Existence", Sponsored Projects, Publications

    Jews and Ukrainians: A Millennium of Co-Existence is an award-winning book that explores the relationship between two of Ukraine’s most historically significant peoples over the centuries. In its second edition, the book tells the story of...

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    "It's our shared tragedy": Shaping Babyn Yar memory in Ukraine

    Posted On: January 20th, 2025
    Posted In: Jews on Ukrainian Lands, Hromadske Radio, Sponsored Projects, The Holocaust in Ukraine, Audio/Visual Media, History

    Anton Drobovych, head of the Ukrainian Institute of National Memory, discusses how the memory of Babyn Yar is being shaped in Ukraine. Babyn Yar as a collective tragedy Yelyzaveta Tsarehradska: On 29 September, we commemorate...

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    Discerning Jewish Modernism in Paris

    Posted On: January 16th, 2025
    Posted In: Literature, Sponsored Projects, Culture, Ukraina Moderna

    By Vladyslava Moskalets As I was leaving for my month-long research stay in Paris, I took along Blooming Spaces: The Collected Poetry, Prose, Critical Writing, and Letters of Debora Vogel (2020), translated and edited by...

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    Chapter 11.2: "Jews and Ukrainians: A Millennium of Co-Existence"

    Posted On: January 15th, 2025
    Posted In: eBook: "Jews and Ukrainians: A Millennium of Co-Existence", Sponsored Projects, Publications

    Jews and Ukrainians: A Millennium of Co-Existence is an award-winning book that explores the relationship between two of Ukraine’s most historically significant peoples over the centuries. In its second edition, the book tells the story of...

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    Chapter 11.1: "Jews and Ukrainians: A Millennium of Co-Existence"

    Posted On: December 18th, 2024
    Posted In: eBook: "Jews and Ukrainians: A Millennium of Co-Existence", Sponsored Projects, Publications

    Jews and Ukrainians: A Millennium of Co-Existence is an award-winning book that explores the relationship between two of Ukraine’s most historically significant peoples over the centuries. In its second edition, the book tells the story of...

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    Hanukkah is essentially about the history of the liberation struggle — Yulia Robchynska

    Posted On: December 16th, 2024
    Posted In: Hromadske Radio, Sponsored Projects, Culture, Audio/Visual Media, Religion

    Yulia Robchynska, a Jewish education manager at Project Kesher, talks about Hanukkah. [Editor’s note: This interview originally aired in 2023.] What is Hanukkah for your family? Yulia Robchynska: In my family, this holiday was not...

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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:

    Web Excellence Awards:

    • Excellence — Website Non-profit (2023)

    w3 Awards:

    • Silver — Website Non-profit (2023)
    • Silver — Website Best Structure and Navigation (2023)
    • Silver— Website Best Visual Appeal and Aesthetics (2023)

    Anthem Awards:

    • Bronze — Website Digital and Innovative Experiences (2024)

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    • Gold — Website Non-Profit (2024)
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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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    The goal of the richly illustrated catalogue is to present an integrated narrative that looks at the experience of these two peoples together, in all its complexity — through periods of crisis, as well as long stretches of normal co-existence and multifaceted cultural interaction from antiquity to 1914.

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