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“Through Agnon’s Texts: From Buchach to Jerusalem.” UJE at the 2019 Lviv BookForum

Posted On: October 16th, 2019

Posted In: Agnon Literary Centre, Book Fairs/Festivals, Sponsored Projects, Other Programs, Outreach

Ukrainian Jewish Encounter (UJE) is a Canadian philanthropic organization that has been working since 2008 to strengthen relations between our two peoples. This year marks the sixth time that we are presenting our organization’s initiatives…

Keynote address by NED President Carl Gershman at the Kyiv Jewish Forum

Posted On: August 12th, 2019

Posted In: UJE Initiatives, World Jewish Congress, History, Holodomor, Outreach

[Editor’s note: More than 500 leaders from Israel, the United States, Europe and Ukraine participated in the inaugural Kyiv Jewish Forum held in the Ukrainian capital from 5-7 May 2019. Carl Gershman, President of the…

Radutsky: Oz and Appelfeld, two sons return to Ukraine

Posted On: June 14th, 2019

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

Aharon Appelfeld and Amos Oz are two Israeli literary giants who died in 2018, nearly a year apart. Although they were writers from Israel, how many people know both were deeply connected to lands that…

Portnikov, Lyubka, and Radutsky: “Small Town: Together and Apart”

Posted On: June 5th, 2019

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

“The discussion was incredibly unpredictable, metaphysical, and current, even though it concerned phenomena that would appear to be steeped in the past.” This was what our old friend and moderator Andriy Pavlyshyn said about the…

Beregovski at the 2018 KlezKanada festival

Posted On: May 29th, 2019

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

The work of Ukrainian-Jewish ethnomusicologist Moyshe Beregovksi (1892-1961) was featured in 2018’s UJE-supported KlezKanada festival. Beregovksi was among the first to indicate similarities in melody and means of expression in Ukrainian and Jewish folk music. The world-renowned…

Ukrainian Jewish Encounter at the Kyiv Jewish Forum, 5–7 May 2019

Posted On: May 23rd, 2019

Posted In: UJE Initiatives, Sheptytsky Award, World Jewish Congress, Outreach

Below, a video report from the Kyiv Jewish Forum 2019, which took place 5–7 May in Kyiv. The event was organized and held in partnership with the Ukrainian Jewish Encounter, the Jewish Confederation of Ukraine,…

A discussion in New York: Viewing the Ukrainian-Jewish relationship within historical contexts

Posted On: April 17th, 2019

Posted In: UJE Initiatives, Jews on Ukrainian Lands, Publications, Ukrainian- Jewish Relations History, Sponsored Projects, Symposia, History, Outreach

NEW YORK – The historic development of the Ukrainian-Jewish discourse, the need for a greater understanding of history and its contexts, as well as the current political situation in Ukraine were discussed during a wide-ranging…

UJE-supported publications displayed in London and Paris

Posted On: April 5th, 2019

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

Books supported by the Ukrainian Jewish Encounter were on full display at two prominent European book fairs recently. At both the London and Paris book fairs, visitors praised not only the high quality of the…

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…