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 we are presenting our organization’s initiatives and…
The Ukrainian Jewish Encounter is a Canadian philanthropic organization that has been working since 2008 to strengthen relations between our two peoples. This year marks the sixth time we are presenting our organization’s initiatives and…
UJE board member Paul Robert Magocsi has traveled extensively over the last two years promoting Jews and Ukrainians: A Millennium of Co-Existence, the book he co-authored with Yohanan Petrovsky-Shtern. This spring, the two authors surprised…
Bukovyna inspires the imagination. Sitting at the crossroads of great empires, this Ukrainian region was home to a myriad of writers, artists, musicians and ethnic groups, each who forever left their imprint. Wolf Moskovich, Board…
The translator Victor Radutzky discusses translations from Hebrew to Ukrainian and the reverse; Amos Oz, Shmuel Yosef Agnon, and Vasyl Stus; and Kyiv and Jerusalem. Iryna Slavinska: Our guest on the program today is an…
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…
[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…
While conducting research on the history of Ukrainians in Canada during the interwar years, Jars Balan discovered a series of powerfully written articles by a forgotten Canadian Jewish journalist, named Rhea Clyman, describing the horrors…
A remarkable exhibit at the Lviv Historical Museum explores the relationship between two of the peoples at the heart of this land. “A Journey Through the Ukrainian-Jewish Encounter: From Antiquity to 1939” focuses on the…
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…
