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Limmud-FSU in Jerusalem: New perspectives on Ukrainian-Jewish history

Posted On: January 16th, 2019

Posted In: UJE Initiatives, A Journey through the Ukrainian-Jewish Encounter, Ukrainian- Jewish Relations History, Limmud FSU, History, Exhibits, Outreach

Limmud FSU, an educational festival that advances the cultural identity and heritage of Russian- and Ukrainian-speaking Jews, convened in Jerusalem 20-22 December 2018 and drew over one thousand attendants. The Canadian philanthropic foundation Ukrainian Jewish…

For Lesia Ukrainka, Israel is a way to talk about Ukraine’s independence: Olena Huseynova

Posted On: January 14th, 2019

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

Literary specialist and author of the book Lesia Ukrainka from A to Z discusses Jewish motifs in the texts of Larysa Kosach. Iryna Slavinska: Today we will be discussing a literary topic that is not…

Winter Reading: “The Key in the Pocket”

Posted On: December 21st, 2018

Posted In: Publications, Sponsored Projects

Winter is upon us; it’s the perfect time to grab a book or eReader, curl into a warm corner and lose yourself into a story. This holiday season, the Ukrainian Jewish Encounter and the Agnon…

Discussing the Holocaust and the Holodomor: Ukrainian-Jewish dialogue in Israel

Posted On: December 20th, 2018

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

In December 2018, the Israeli Friends of Ukraine NGO continued its tradition of holding forums for Israelis which discuss problems of Ukrainian-Jewish history and critical moments in Ukrainian-Jewish relations. Based on the successful experience of…

Jewish American writer Mendel Osherowitz’s impressions of his trip to Ukraine in the winter of 1932

Posted On: December 17th, 2018

Posted In: Literature, History, Holodomor

Researchers of the Holodomor of 1932–1933 continue to overlook a book that was written by Mendel Osherowitz (b. 1884, Trostianets–d. 1965, New York), a Jewish American writer and journalist who wrote in Yiddish. His work,…

UJE’s books at ASEEES conference in Boston

Posted On: December 14th, 2018

Posted In: Publications, Sponsored Projects

The growing list of books published with the support of the Ukrainian Jewish Encounter were displayed at this year’s convention of The Association for Slavic, East European, & Eurasian Studies (ASEEES), held in Boston from…

Magocsi lectures in the U.S., Sweden, and England

Posted On: December 14th, 2018

Posted In: Publications, Sponsored Projects

UJE board member and University of Toronto professor Paul Robert Magocsi traveled throughout the U.S., Europe and Ukraine in 2018 to present the award-winning book Jews and Ukrainians: A Millennium of Co-Existence, a work he…

Jewish life in Rivne explored in new book

Posted On: December 13th, 2018

Posted In: UJE Initiatives, Jews on Ukrainian Lands, Book Fairs/Festivals, Literature, Culture, Outreach

Numerous books and monographs have appeared in recent years describing the rich lives of the Jewish communities that inhabited the territory of contemporary Ukraine prior to World War II. Now Ukrainian historian Maxim Hon has…

Christmas as an “Ecumenical Picnic” and a community meeting in urban space

Posted On: December 12th, 2018

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

During the winter holidays, when markets were being held in cities, an encounter of various ethnic and religious communities in a single, common space took place on a central square. Diana Klochko is at the…

Partners discuss two UJE-supported special media projects

Posted On: December 7th, 2018

Posted In: Book Fairs/Festivals, The Odessa Review, Sponsored Projects, Istorychna Pravda, Other Programs, Outreach

Ukrainian Jewish Encounter proudly supports two on-going media projects – Hromadske Radio’s Zustrichi program in Ukraine and Ukrainian Jewish Heritage that airs on Canada’s Nash Holos Ukrainian Roots Radio. In an effort to broaden the…

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