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Ukraine’s Holodomor discussed at Lviv 25th Book Forum

Posted On: January 31st, 2019

Posted In: UJE Initiatives, Book Fairs/Festivals, Literature, Culture, History, Holodomor, Outreach

Red Famine: Stalin’s War on Ukraine by Pulitzer-prize winning journalist Anne Applebaum explores a seminal event in Ukrainian history – the Holodomor. Still little-known internationally, the Holodomor (death by hunger, in Ukrainian) refers to the…

Ukrainian Jewish Encounter at the XI Ukrainian World Congress

Posted On: January 23rd, 2019

Posted In: UJE Initiatives, Ukrainian- Jewish Relations History, History, Commentary and Analysis, Outreach

James Constantine Temerty, the head of the Board of Directors of Ukrainian Jewish Encounter (UJE), and Adrian Karatnycky, co-director of UJE, took part in the work of the XI Ukrainian World Congress (SKU), which was…

Limmud-FSU in Jerusalem: New perspectives on Ukrainian-Jewish history

Posted On: January 16th, 2019

Posted In: UJE Initiatives, A Journey through the Ukrainian-Jewish Encounter, Ukrainian- Jewish Relations History, Limmud FSU, History, Exhibits, Outreach

Limmud FSU, an educational festival that advances the cultural identity and heritage of Russian- and Ukrainian-speaking Jews, convened in Jerusalem 20-22 December 2018 and drew over one thousand attendants. The Canadian philanthropic foundation Ukrainian Jewish…

Jewish life in Rivne explored in new book

Posted On: December 13th, 2018

Posted In: UJE Initiatives, Jews on Ukrainian Lands, Book Fairs/Festivals, Literature, Culture, Outreach

Numerous books and monographs have appeared in recent years describing the rich lives of the Jewish communities that inhabited the territory of contemporary Ukraine prior to World War II. Now Ukrainian historian Maxim Hon has…

Partners discuss two UJE-supported special media projects

Posted On: December 7th, 2018

Posted In: Book Fairs/Festivals, The Odessa Review, Sponsored Projects, Istorychna Pravda, Other Programs, Outreach

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…

Focus on the 85th Anniversary of Ukraine’s Holodomor

Posted On: December 2nd, 2018

Posted In: Book Fairs/Festivals, Culture, History, Holodomor, Cinema, Outreach

The documentary film Hunger for Truth tells the story of Canadian-Jewish journalist Rhea Clyman. Although little known today, Clyman reached international acclaim in her day for her coverage of the Soviet Union, including the 1932-33…

UJE award-winning book praised at Ukrainian festivals

Posted On: November 23rd, 2018

Posted In: UJE Initiatives, A Journey through the Ukrainian-Jewish Encounter, Book Fairs/Festivals, Exhibits, Outreach

The award-winning book A Journey Through the Ukrainian-Jewish Encounter: From Antiquity to 1914 received high praise from scholars and the public at two recent presentations in Lviv, Ukraine. Ukrainian historians Igor Shchupak, at the Limmud…

‘The Key in the Pocket’: Stories of Buchach, Ukraine

Posted On: November 20th, 2018

Posted In: UJE Initiatives, Book Fairs/Festivals, Publications, Literature, Sponsored Projects, Culture, Outreach

The Key in the Pocket is a multi-edition collection of stories by three prominent Ukrainian writers—Sofia Andrukhovych, Andriy Lyubka, and Yevheniya Senik—who spent a week at a literary residence in Buchach, Ukraine, the birthplace of…

Buchach-Jerusalem: A bridge of inspiration for new Ukrainian literature

Posted On: November 16th, 2018

Posted In: UJE Initiatives, Book Fairs/Festivals, Publications, Literature, Sponsored Projects, Culture, Outreach

Sofia Andrukhovych, a rising star of Ukrainian prose, participated in a unique project in the two house-museums where the future Nobel Prize in Literature recipient Shmuel Yosef Agnon lived. Buchach, in Galicia, and then Jerusalem…

UJE cultural pavilion shines at 2018 Toronto Ukrainian Festival

Posted On: September 22nd, 2018

Posted In: UJE Initiatives, Book Fairs/Festivals, Outreach

The 22nd Annual Toronto Ukrainian Festival, the largest Ukrainian festival in North America, this year welcomed the Right Honourable Justin Trudeau, Prime Minster of Canada, who along with other senior government officials, met with UJE…