Omelian Kovch (1884–1944) was prisoner Number 2399 in Barrack 14 at the German concentration camp Majdanek on the outskirts of the Polish city of Lublin during the Second World War. The front line was approaching,...
Ukrainian Jewish Encounter (UJE) is a Canadian charitable non-profit organization founded in 2008 to strengthen and deepen relations between Ukrainians and Jews. Among our organization's many initiatives is the support of literary festivals, residences, publishing...
Ukrainian Jewish Encounter (UJE), a Canadian charitable non-profit organization, and Ukraine's NGO "Publishers Forum" (Lviv, Ukraine) are pleased to announce that the Ukrainian-language translation of The Anti-Imperial Choice: The Making of the Ukrainian Jew by...
Why did the Holocaust topic surface at the earliest stage of the establishment of relations between Israel and Ukraine, and how did the fiftieth anniversary of the Babyn Yar tragedy become the first test of...
Ukrainian Jewish Encounter is a long-standing sponsor of the Meridian Czernowitz International Poetry Festival, which took place this year on 3–5 September 2021. This year’s festival was held in a "live" format, as well as...
"Which is the straight path that a man should choose for himself? One which is an honor to the person adopting it and [on account of which] honor [accrues] to him from others." Talmud, Pirkei...
Book Review of Zvi Harry Likwornik, Als Siebenjähriger im Holocaust: Nach den Ghettos von Czernowitz und Bérschad in Transnistrien ein neues Leben in Israel 1934-1948-2012 (As a Seven-year-old in the Holocaust: After the Ghettos of...
The historian Tetiana Pastushenko talks about the Jewish community after the Holocaust, the return of Soviet power, and postwar Stalinist repressions. The pogrom that took place in Kyiv in September 1945 was an episode connected...
An unexpected encounter took place in August 2021 in the Carpathian Mountain resort town of Truskavets, where Rabbi Moshe Reuben Asman was vacationing. Lev Hrytsak, the general director of the Karpaty Hotel and Resort Complex...
This article examines the key transformations that have taken place at Holocaust sites in the city of Dnipro (formerly known as Dnipropetrovsk) from the end of the Nazi occupation until the present day. Attention is...
