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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…
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…
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.
Within the last 450 years of the major Jewish presence in Ukraine, only 16 to 20 at most were marked by periods of violence.
[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…
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…
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.
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…
