The Valley of the Communities at Yad Vashem, Israel’s official Holocaust memorial, is perched high atop Mount Herzl, surrounded by pine trees and silence.
Jerusalem Post: Antisemitism in Ukraine?
Source: jpost.comPosted On: November 8th, 2019
Posted In: UJE in the News, Anti-Semitism Within the last 450 years of the major Jewish presence in Ukraine, only 16 to 20 at most were marked by periods of violence.
Farber: Ukraine’s revisionist roadblocks
Source: The Canadian Jewish NewsPosted On: May 16th, 2019
Posted In: UJE in the News A few weeks ago, I participated in a fascinating panel on historical revisionism and how it has impacted various ethnic and racialized communities.
London experts debate state of Ukrainian, Jewish relations today
Source: Kyiv PostPosted On: February 7th, 2019
Posted In: UJE in the News LONDON – Debating on the degree of anti-Semitism in modern Ukraine and the role of Jews in it three top experts from Toronto and Ukraine clashed in their views when they spoke up to the crowd in the Jewish Community Center in London on Jan. 29.
Canadian lawyer fights to restore Ukrainian mass grave
Source: The Canadian Jewish NewsPosted On: January 17th, 2019
Posted In: UJE in the News Lawyers who scale back their practice at the end of their careers might do some consulting, teaching, mediation or just kick back. Mark Freiman, who has left his Toronto law firm after eight years, is devoting himself to a mass grave in Ukraine.
‘Hunger For Truth: The Rhea Clyman Story’ makes its English-language debut in Kyiv on Nov. 26
Source: Kyiv PostPosted On: December 2nd, 2018
Posted In: UJE in the News More than 200 people attended an invitation-only screening of the 2017 documentary “Hunger For Truth: The Rhea Clyman Story” at Oskar Kino Theater in Kyiv’s Gulliver Shopping Center on Nov. 26.
Sofia Andrukhovych in Israel: interview with Evgeny Sova
Posted On: November 22nd, 2018
Posted In: UJE in the News Ukrainian writer Sofia Andrukhovych visited Israel in late October within the framework of a project to study the work of the Nobel-prize laureate Shmuel Yosef Agnon. During her visit Andrukhovych was invited to appear on…
“Jews and Ukrainians”: Extending the horizons of cognition
Source: The Ukrainian WeeklyPosted On: October 16th, 2018
Posted In: UJE in the News Conversations about books constitute the essence of the liberal arts. And it is a book that brings us together at this panel here in Rivne, Ukraine. The book in question, “Jews and Ukrainians: A Millennium of Co-Existence,” is long-awaited and in real demand. It is unique, since it provides answers to some of the crucial questions facing all of us who work in the humanities in the 21st century.
Ukrainian scholars participated at the 11th Congress of the European Association for Jewish Studies
Source: uajs.org.uaPosted On: August 10th, 2018
Posted In: UJE in the News The 11th Congress of the European Association for Jewish Studies took place in Krakow on July 15–19, 2018. Among the participants of the Congress were 22 Ukrainian scholars (15 are the members of the Ukrainian Association for Jewish Studies), who represented seven institutions from Ukraine (Kyiv, Lviv, and Kharkiv) and three universities from abroad. Due to the Ukrainian Jewish Encounter’s support, three “Ukrainian” panels were organized for this Congress.
Letter from the Chief Editor of The Odessa Review
Posted On: October 24th, 2017
Posted In: UJE in the News Source: The Odessa Review The newest installment of The Odessa Review is substantively different from all our previous ones for a key reason: while our past issues have all been dedicated to the society, art,…