Ahead of this week’s visit to Israel, comedian who became a corruption-battling president discusses everything from Babi Yar, the Holocaust and the Holodomor, to Putin… and Trump.
Happy holidays
Posted On: December 24th, 2019
Posted In: Other UJE-Related News To friends and readers around the world, we wish you a very happy holiday season and a wonderful new year. May you always be inspired. We will return to this space on 15 January 2020.
UJE announces the ‘Encounter’ literary prize
Posted On: December 20th, 2019
Posted In: Press Releases Press Release Toronto/Lviv/Kyiv 20 December 2019 The Ukrainian Jewish Encounter is proud to announce “Encounter: The Ukrainian-Jewish Literary Prize.” The prize is dedicated to works of fiction and non-fiction that explore, in whole or in…
“With the help of Ukrainians, I realized my national existence as a Jew”
Posted On: November 28th, 2019
Posted In: Ukrainian-Jewish Relations Mikhail Heifets, a great friend of Ukrainian-Jewish understanding, is no longer with us Mikhail Heifets, the renowned Soviet human rights activist, dissident, historian, and writer, died at the age of 85 on the evening of…
Jerusalem Post Audio: Antisemitism in Ukraine?
Source: jpost.comPosted On: November 26th, 2019
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Jerusalem Post: How to save the mass graves of the Holocaust from oblivion
Source: jpost.comPosted On: November 8th, 2019
Posted In: UJE in the News, Holocaust Remembrance 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.
Magocsi: Anti-Semitism in Ukraine?
Posted On: November 4th, 2019
Posted In: Anti-Semitism [Editor’s note: The following is an updated version of an opinion piece by UJE Board Member Paul Robert Magocsi that originally appeared in The New Pathway on September 12, 2019 and The Ukrainian Weekly on…
Olga Tokarczuk, Polish writer with Ukrainian roots, wins 2018 Nobel Prize in Literature
Posted On: October 10th, 2019
Posted In: Culture and Arts Ms. Tokarczuk was awarded the prize “for a narrative imagination that with encyclopedic passion represents the crossing of boundaries as a form of life.” The award had been postponed from last year following a scandal…
On Salka Viertel’s “The Kindness of Strangers”
Source: Los Angeles Review of BooksPosted On: October 9th, 2019
Posted In: Book Reviews IN HER ENGAGING memoir of 20th-century literary life, The Kindness of Strangers, Salka Viertel, a leading Austrian actress, recounts her first American encounter. In 1928, she and her husband, writer-director Berthold Viertel, had been invited to dinner in Berlin by a visiting columnist, Dorothy Thompson, who happened to be the fiancée of Sinclair Lewis.