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Why this young American Jew supports Ukraine

Posted On: January 24th, 2022

Posted In: Diverse Voices

Jeremy Borovitz, the son of a New Jersey rabbi, is a young American Jew who once worked in Ukraine, where he created a special video in the Ukrainian language as a sign of solidarity with...

Ukrainians and Jews had a positive experience of coexistence during the Ukrainian–Polish War: Historian

Posted On: January 19th, 2022

Posted In: Hromadske Radio, Ukrainian- Jewish Relations History, Sponsored Projects, Audio/Visual Media, History

The continuation of a conversation with Petro Chorniy, a historian, social anthropologist, Candidate of Historical Sciences, and Research Fellow of the Institute of Ethnology at the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine. Vasyl Shandro:...

The states that were formed after the First World War arose around the idea of an "exclusive nation" based on the culture of dominant ethnic groups: A historian discusses the interethnic coexistence of Galicians

Posted On: January 17th, 2022

Posted In: Hromadske Radio, Sponsored Projects, Audio/Visual Media, Culture, Ethnography

A look at the inter-ethnic coexistence and cohabitation of Galicians in the years between the two world wars A conversation with Petro Chorniy, a historian, social anthropologist, Candidate of Historical Sciences, and Research Fellow of...

The "Encounter" prize to judge fiction submissions in 2022

Posted On: December 23rd, 2021

Posted In: ‘Encounter’ Literary Prize, UJE Initiatives

The Ukrainian Jewish Encounter and the NGO "Publishers Forum" (Lviv, Ukraine) are pleased to announce that fiction submissions will be judged in the 2022 "Encounter: The Ukrainian-Jewish Literary Prize" ™. Guidelines will be announced in...

Righteous Street: How Ukrainian cities honor the Righteous Among the Nations

Posted On: December 23rd, 2021

Posted In: The Holocaust in Ukraine, History

Toponyms in honor of the Righteous Among the Nations are found in thirty-two cities and villages of Ukraine, (Part 1) Marharyta Ormotsadze The most touching and heroic pages of the Holocaust are the stories of...

Video: “History, Memory and National identification: Memory Wars in Modern Ukraine"

Posted On: December 22nd, 2021

Posted In: Ukrainian- Jewish Relations History, Israeli Friends of Ukraine, Sponsored Projects, Other Programs, History

Ukrainian researcher Dr. Marta Havryshko gave a lecture at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem titled “History, Memory and National identification: Memory Wars in Modern Ukraine” at the Institute of Modern Jewry on 17 November 2021....

Video: International seminar "Above and around the Ravine: Memory Wars in Ukrainian-Jewish History, the Traumas of the Holocaust and the Holodomor"

Posted On: December 22nd, 2021

Posted In: Israeli Friends of Ukraine, Sponsored Projects, The Holocaust in Ukraine, Other Programs, History, Holodomor

Video: International seminar "Above and around the Ravine: Memory Wars in Ukrainian-Jewish History, the Traumas of the Holocaust and the Holodomor," 11–13 November 2021, city of Netanya, Israel The non-profit organization Israeli Friends of Ukraine,...

"Memory Wars" and the Ukrainian-Jewish dialogue in Israel

Posted On: December 22nd, 2021

Posted In: UJE Initiatives, Israeli Friends of Ukraine, Sponsored Projects, The Holocaust in Ukraine, Other Programs, History, Holodomor

The international seminar "Above and around the Ravine: Memory Wars in Ukrainian-Jewish History, the Traumas of the Holocaust and the Holodomor" took place on 11–13 November 2021 in the city of Netanya, Israel. The nongovernmental...

Starvation and cannibalism: The Ukraine-Russia War on the Holodomor intensifies

Source: Haaretz

Posted On: December 22nd, 2021

Posted In: History, Holodomor

Ukraine is asking the world to recognize the death by starvation of millions of its people in 1932-33 as an act of genocide by the Soviet Union. In recent years, victims of the 'Holodomor' are being memorialized, echoing Holocaust commemorations.

Ukraine: free, tolerant, and democratic

Posted On: December 21st, 2021

Posted In: Zahid.net, Sponsored Projects, History, Metropolitan Andrei Sheptytsky

Ukrainian statehood from the perspective of December 1941 [Editor's note: For this year's winter reading, we offer two articles by scholar Liliana Hentosh that explore Metropolitan Andrey Sheptytsky's view on Ukrainian statehood. Yesterday's article explored...

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