A new documentary film by the Kharkiv-based director Borys Shusterman, screened recently in Israel, spotlights the residents of the Ukrainian village of Bobrovyi Kut, in the Kherson region, and their profound and painful awareness of…
[Editor’s note: The non-profit group Israeli Friends of Ukraine and Ukrainian Jewish Encounter recently held a joint conference in Tel Aviv that explored the Ukrainian-Jewish relationship and historical memory. So readers may learn more about…
Two writers, two politicians. Two outstanding public figures. And two intriguing viewpoints on the historic challenges of Ukrainian-Jewish relations. The Ukrainian writer Ivan Franko passed away in 1916. The Zionist leader Vladimir Jabotinsky was from…
Iryna Slavinska: This is Iryna Slavinska on Hromadske Radio for the program Encounters, which is made possible by the Canadian non-profit organization Ukrainian Jewish Encounter. Today we are speaking with Leonid Finberg, the editor-in-chief of…
Celebrities, food, and finding your roots proved to be a winning combination for the Ukrainian Jewish Encounter exhibition at this year’s Ukrainian Festival in Toronto’s Bloor West Village, held on 15-17 September. Warm weather drew…
The tragic moments of Ukrainian and Jewish history were discussed at a three-day seminar entitled “Jews and Ukrainians: Controversial Issues of Historical Memory,” which ended late last week in Tel Aviv. The focus of the…
Today, two perspectives on loss and memory. “I close my eyes and I can hear the bells…ringing; each one rings differently. I can hear the splash of the fountains on the Marketplace, and the soughing…
What is a book? As the train from Lviv races back to Kyiv after a trip that has taken our organization to Uzhhorod, Bershad, Kamianets-Podilskyi, Chernivtsi, Paris, and then Lviv, the question consumes me. I…
Baby Yar: History and Memory was named one of the best books of the Lviv Book Forum at a ceremony that took place at the city’s famed opera house on 14 September 2017. “We are very…
[Editor’s note: The Lviv Book Forum will take place this year from September 13-17. As it has in the past, the Ukrainian Jewish Encounter will host a variety of events, from book presentations to panel…