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Happy holidays

Posted On: December 21st, 2018

Posted In: Other UJE-Related News

To friends and readers around the world, we wish you a very happy holiday season and wonderful new year. May you always be inspired. We will return to this space on 14 January 2019.

Book Review: Memories of Buczacz — Jewish History from the bottom up

Source: The Arts Fuse

Posted On: December 20th, 2018

Posted In: Book Reviews

These extraordinary books from world-class writers are about reviving, through words, a now-derelict town and the lives of its ten thousand murdered Jews.

Ukrainian youth and townsfolk band together to restore neglected Jewish cemetery

Source: Times of Israel

Posted On: December 4th, 2018

Posted In: Ukrainian-Jewish Relations

KALUSH, Ukraine — It was an unlikely group of more than 100 people who came to clean up the Jewish cemetery in the western Ukrainian town of Kalush in mid-October.

‘Hunger For Truth: The Rhea Clyman Story’ makes its English-language debut in Kyiv on Nov. 26

Source: Kyiv Post

Posted 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…

‘The Old House’ set in 1970s Odessa, Ukraine

Source: The Canadian Jewish News

Posted On: November 16th, 2018

Posted In: Culture and Arts

After selling out both shows earlier this year, The Old House returns for a second run.

The Old House takes place in 1970s Odessa, Ukraine, and follows the story of a young man who grows up in a Soviet-style apartment building where he was raised by both his parents, and his neighbours. The entire building sees one another as family.

Remembering the man who told the truth of Stalin’s assault on Ukraine

Source: The National Post

Posted On: October 20th, 2018

Posted In: Ukrainian-Jewish Relations

He was the first to call it what it was. Sixty-five years ago this month, on Sept. 20, 1953, Dr. Raphael Lemkin, a legal scholar, spoke in New York City about Stalin’s four-pronged offensive against Ukraine during the 1930s.

“Jews and Ukrainians”: Extending the horizons of cognition

Source: The Ukrainian Weekly

Posted 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.

Unveiling of a multilingual plaque honouring Dr. Raphael Lemkin

Source: Ukrainian Institute of America

Posted On: September 7th, 2018

Posted In: Ukrainian-Jewish Relations

On Thursday, 20 September 2018, the Ukrainian Institute of America and the Ukrainian Canadian Civil Liberties Foundation will be unveiling a multilingual plaque (English, Ukrainian, Hebrew, Yiddish) honouring Dr. Raphael Lemkin, the “father of the UN Genocide Convention,” specifically in reference to the speech he gave in New York City (20 September 1953) acknowledging the famine of 1932-33 as a Soviet genocide.

Ukrainians and Jews celebrated the 120th anniversary of the Kyivan Synagogue together

Posted On: September 5th, 2018

Posted In: Jewish Life in Ukraine

The “Sugar king” and multimillionaire philanthropist Lazar Brodsky built a beautiful synagogue in the center of Kyiv and opened it on the day of his 50th birthday—24 August 1898. After 120 years, the Jews of…

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