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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 at the 5th Triennial All-Ukrainian Museum Festival in Dnipro

Posted On: November 9th, 2018

Posted In: UJE Initiatives, A Journey through the Ukrainian-Jewish Encounter, Exhibits

The Ukrainian-Jewish Encounter had a high-profile presence at the triennial Festival of Ukrainian Museums, which took place at the Dnipro National Historical Museum 18-24 September 2018. UJE’s participation included a lively roundtable discussion, animated by…

Wolf Moskovich discusses Ukrainian-Jewish relations in Paris

Posted On: November 5th, 2018

Posted In: UJE Initiatives, Ukrainian- Jewish Relations History, Symposia, History

UJE Board Member Wolf Moskovich lectured in Paris on 5 October 2018, following his moving discussion with Holocaust survivor Lili Stern-Pohlmann in London the previous day to discuss the legacy of Andrei Sheptytsky, the Metropolitan…

Dr. Igor Shchupak lecture in Toronto casts new light on Ukrainian-Jewish relations

Posted On: October 20th, 2018

Posted In: UJE Initiatives, Ukrainian- Jewish Relations History, Symposia, History

“They saved other people’s children risking their own” was the title of the lecture delivered by Dr. Igor Shchupak, Director of the “Tkuma” Ukrainian Institute for Holocaust Studies in Dnipro, Ukraine, that was attended by…

The Honorable Ronald S. Lauder receives Sheptytsky Award at ceremony in New York

Posted On: October 2nd, 2018

Posted In: UJE Initiatives, Sheptytsky Award

The Honorable Ronald S. Lauder, philanthropist, activist and president of the World Jewish Congress received the Metropolitan Andrei Sheptytsky Award for 2018 at a ceremony at New York’s Ukrainian Institute of America on 27 September….

Ronald Lauder awarded Andrei Sheptytsky Medal by Ukrainian-Jewish organizations

Source: Tablet Magazine

Posted On: October 1st, 2018

Posted In: UJE Initiatives, Sheptytsky Award

For the past week, as the annual United Nations General Assembly filled New York with visiting heads of state and foreign ministers, driving or walking through large swaths of the Upper East Side has become next to impossible.

The Honorable Ronald S. Lauder to receive Sheptytsky Award

Posted On: September 25th, 2018

Posted In: UJE Initiatives, Sheptytsky Award

The Honorable Ronald S. Lauder, philanthropist, activist and president of the World Jewish Congress, is to receive the Metropolitan Andrei Sheptytsky Award for 2018. The award, conferred by the Jewish Confederation of Ukraine and the…

Anti-Semitism in Ukraine: Myth versus Reality

Posted On: September 22nd, 2018

Posted In: UJE Initiatives, Symposia, Diverse Voices

An insightful discussion, sponsored by UJE, took place in Kyiv at the YES Annual Meeting on the topic “Antisemitism in Ukraine: Russian Disinformation and On-the-Ground Reality” on 14 September 2018. Participants spoke on a wide…

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