Marina Mogilner: "I had always thought that the Ukrainian intellectual milieu was different from the intellectual milieu in Russia precisely because there were various voices in the Ukrainian one, and genuine, interesting dialogue was taking place there."

Our conversation with Marina Mogilner, Associate Professor of History at the University of Illinois at Chicago, USA, focuses on the ongoing decolonizing discussions in academia in the United States and Western Europe. Some historians are...

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

[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

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

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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