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Poroshenko in Israel: free trade, friendship, and memory

Posted On: January 28th, 2019

Posted In: Ukraine-Israel Relations

Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko once again flew to Israel on 20-21 January 2019. This was his third visit to the Jewish state, three years and a month after his first visit in December 2015, and…

A landmark conversation in London on Jews and Ukraine

Posted On: January 21st, 2019

Posted In: Press Releases

Ukraine’s Revolution of Dignity of 2013-14, Russia’s annexation of Crimea, and the continuing war in Eastern Ukraine has triggered an intense public search for Ukrainian identity. The Jewish community of Ukraine, too, has embraced a…

Canadian lawyer fights to restore Ukrainian mass grave

Source: The Canadian Jewish News

Posted 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.

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.

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