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Magocsi: Anti-Semitism in Ukraine?

Posted On: November 4th, 2019

Posted In: Anti-Semitism

[Editor’s note: The following opinion piece by UJE Board Member Paul Robert Magocsi appeared originally in The Ukrainian Weekly on October 6, 2019. He is co-author of the book “Jews and Ukrainians: A Millennium of…

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 Books

Posted 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.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky addressed participants of the Holocaust Remembrance Ceremony in Bukovina

Posted On: September 16th, 2019

Posted In: Holocaust Remembrance

To the participants of the ceremony to commemorate Holocaust victims in Bukovina Ladies and Gentlemen! The Holocaust. When we hear this word, it conjures up images of horror, pain, and despair on the black-and-white film…

Netanyahu may reassess his role as a possible mediator between Russia and Ukraine

Posted On: August 1st, 2019

Posted In: Ukraine-Israel Relations

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu met with Israel’s bloggers on the evening of 30 July 2019 in the informal setting of the Yudale Bar in Rishon Le-Zion. Only 8 of the 25 participants were able…

Israel-Ukraine: Intensifying partnership in higher education

Posted On: July 18th, 2019

Posted In: Ukraine-Israel Relations

The Israeli-Ukrainian educational forum “EduMission-2019″ was an important event for the intensification of direct cooperation between the universities of the two countries. Representatives of eight Ukrainian universities met with their Israeli counterparts at the end…

New adviser to the Prime Minister of Israel is well acquainted with Ukrainian-Jewish themes

Posted On: June 21st, 2019

Posted In: Ukraine-Israel Relations

This week, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu appointed attorney Ariel Bulstein to be his special adviser on immigrants from the countries of the former USSR. This appointment took place for the first time after a…

Farber: Ukraine’s revisionist roadblocks

Source: The Canadian Jewish News

Posted 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.

«We are extremely proud of the outcome of inaugural Kyiv Jewish Forum», — Boris Lozhkin

Source: Jewish Confederation of Ukraine

Posted On: May 9th, 2019

Posted In: Ukrainian-Jewish Relations

More than 500 leaders from Israel, the United States, Europe and Ukraine participated in the inaugural Kyiv Jewish Forum, organised by the Jewish Confederation of Ukraine (JCU) on 5-7 May, 2019. The success of the event, the first international Jewish-interest conference in Ukraine, illustrates the renaissance of the Ukrainian Jewish community and its role in the global Jewry.

The Ukrainian-Jewish relationship is solid

Source: Kyiv Post

Posted On: April 19th, 2019

Posted In: Anti-Semitism

When Ukrainians go to the polls on April 21 to vote in the second round of presidential elections, they will have celebrated a remarkable achievement: in an election with a Jewish frontrunner, anti-Semitism has not been a factor in the campaign.

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