Babyn Yar today is a tree-lined park on the outskirts of Kyiv that offers the city’s residents refuge from the scorching summer heat. Seventy-five years ago, this peaceful setting of parkland was the site of…
The author and poet Kateryna Babkina represented Ukraine at the Jerusalem International Book Fair 2017. Babkina presented her book of poetry Dlia vsikh odnakove poprosy [Ask the Same for Everybody], translated by Anton Paperny into…
The participants of a recent presentation on Ukrainian-Jewish relations were direct and unambiguous when asked about their perceptions of Ukrainians: Ukrainians are anti-Semites. Most cooperated with the Nazis during World War II. They carried out…
The story of a Poland-born Jewish journalist navigating Soviet Ukraine to bring to the international community the story of a man-famine of 1932-1933 on that territory. A discussion of stereotypes and misperceptions between Ukrainians and…
The central aim of the Meridian Czernowitz International Poetry Festival 2016 in Chernivtsi was to honor the memory of the Jews murdered at Babyn Yar seventy-five years ago. Literature is one of the most effective…
The Ukrainian-language edition of Jews and Ukrainians: A Millennium of Co-Existence by Paul Robert Magocsi and Yohanan Petrovsky-Shtern was awarded special recognition as one of the best books at the Lviv Book Forum 2016 by…
The Ukrainian Jewish Encounter has been very active with several cultural initiatives in Ukraine and Canada this past autumn. The season started in early September with UJE at the 6th Annual International Poetry Festival Meridian…
Welcome to Ukrainian Jewish Heritage on Nash Holos Ukrainian Roots Radio. I’m Andriy Holowaty in Toronto. From November 6-9, 2014, Limmud FSU hosted more than 600 Jews from around Ukraine and the former Soviet Union,…
On June 20, 2015, the first Ukrainian Festival in Mississauga, Ontario was held, organized by a small committee from the Toronto Bloor West Village Ukrainian Festival. Over 10,000 people visited the fair on this beautiful…
The Ukrainian Jewish Encounter sponsored best-selling Ukrainian writer, artist, and television host Irena Karpa and Dr. Dmytro Tyshchenko, the author of a new Yiddish-Ukrainian dictionary, at the 2015 Jerusalem International Book Fair. Karpa discussed her…