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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…

Ukraine country stand featuring UJE publications draws thousands at the Paris Book Fair

Posted On: March 23rd, 2018

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

Several of the publications the Ukrainian Jewish Encounter has supported in recent years were on display at the Paris Book Fair, which took place in the French capital from 16-19 March 2018. The fair is…

Taking stock of 2017: a year in review for the Ukrainian Jewish Encounter

Posted On: December 22nd, 2017

Posted In: UJE Initiatives, Outreach

The motto of the Ukrainian Jewish Encounter proclaims, “Our stories are incomplete without each other.” At conferences, festivals, book presentations, and other events in which UJE took part, 2017 proved repeatedly that there is more…

From the Pacific to the Black Sea: UJE expands the global Ukrainian-Jewish dialogue at Limmud FSU

Posted On: December 22nd, 2017

Posted In: UJE Initiatives, Limmud FSU, Outreach

In 2006, Soviet Jewish activist Chaim Chessler visited Britain for a conference held by Limmud, an organization dedicated to Jewish learning. He immediately understood that this volunteer-driven group could be molded to meet the needs…

Limmud: Leading a Jewish revival in the former USSR

Posted On: December 20th, 2017

Posted In: UJE Initiatives, The Odessa Review, Limmud FSU, Outreach

The Jewish educational charity Limmud first saw the light of day 37 years ago in the United Kingdom. Since then, it has grown into a phenomenon and revitalized Jewish learning and culture on four continents…