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    • Russia–Ukraine War

    Volodymyr Sheiko: "Ukrainian culture will come out of this war very scarred"

    Posted On: December 1st, 2022
    Posted In: Russia–Ukraine War

    With the beginning of the full-scale invasion, the importance of cultural diplomacy became clear even to people who had never thought about this before. Ukrainian artists, writers, musicians, directors, and actors are now working abroad...

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    Holocaust survivor Roman Schwarzman

    Posted On: November 30th, 2022
    Posted In: Russia–Ukraine War

    (In Russian with English transcript below) On 20–21 October 2022, the Ukrainian Jewish Encounter joined the Atlantic Council and the Raoul Wallenberg Centre for Human Rights as co-sponsors of an international conference in Berlin called...

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    Understanding Russia's War on Ukraine through the Holodomor

    Posted On: November 17th, 2022
    Posted In: Russia–Ukraine War

    Daria Mattingly of the University of Cambridge and Leverhulme Early Career Fellow (both of the UK) was the guest speaker at the 2022 Toronto Annual Ukrainian Famine Lecture. In her 14 November 2022 lecture, Dr....

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    International conference on Russian war crimes in Ukraine held in Berlin

    Posted On: November 14th, 2022
    Posted In: Russia–Ukraine War

    On 20-21 October 2022, the Ukrainian Jewish Encounter joined the Atlantic Council and the Raoul Wallenberg Centre for Human Rights as co-sponsors of an international conference in Berlin called "Russia's War Against Ukraine." The event...

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    Ukrainian "karma" of the 2022 Israeli elections

    Posted On: November 9th, 2022
    Posted In: Russia–Ukraine War

    The eight-month-long war in Ukraine has triggered a range of reactions among various strata of the Israeli population and political parties. How did the "Ukrainian question" affect the outcome of the elections to the Knesset...

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    Appeal of Ukrainian Jews to the President, Government, Knesset, and Civil Society of Israel

    Posted On: November 2nd, 2022
    Posted In: Russia–Ukraine War

    [Editor’s note: From Euromaidan Press, where the English-language version of the appeal was published: After Russia launched an attack on Kyiv with Iranian Shahed-136 drones, Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba asked Israel to provide air defense weapons....

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    "I give a blessing in the synagogue, then I go out and catch Russian saboteurs": The account of a Zaporizhian Jewish defender

    Posted On: October 26th, 2022
    Posted In: Russia–Ukraine War

    My recent (October 2022) conversation with officer-reservist Dmytro Kahanovsky (57), a Jewish community activist and chief of staff of the Miska Varta (Municipal Guard) in Zaporizhia, the Cossack capital of Ukraine. Daily missile and Iranian...

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    Panel Discussion: “The Place of this War in Human History”

    Posted On: October 3rd, 2022
    Posted In: Russia–Ukraine War

    The 17th Annual Meeting of Yalta European Strategy (YES) — “Ukraine: Defending all Our Freedom” — was held from 9–10 September 2022 in Kyiv. Over 400 leading politicians, diplomats, business people, civil activists, and experts...

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    The Biden administration's unexplored failures in Ukraine

    Posted On: September 8th, 2022
    Posted In: Russia–Ukraine War

    Despite knowing a war was coming, the U.S. miscalculated each side's strength and didn't give Ukraine the military aid it needed. By Adrian Karatnycky August 25, 2022 The Washington Post recently reported that by October 2021, the Biden administration...

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    Opinion: Putin's Genocidal War

    Posted On: August 4th, 2022
    Posted In: Russia–Ukraine War

    By Adrian Karatnycky Russian President Vladimir Putin's attack on Ukraine represents the first interstate war in modern times where the stakes are both the survival of a state and an entire nation. In the 20th...

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    Ukrainians and Jews have lived as neighbours for centuries, creating and sharing enduring cultures that continue to inform their identities today. Ukrainian Jewish Encounter (UJE) is proud to present an integrated narrative of these two peoples in the belief that there is much to be gained by viewing their historical experience together, in all its complexity.

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    Encounter: The Ukrainian-Jewish Literary Prize  

    The 'Encounter' prize aims to build on the common experiences of Ukrainians and Jews over the centuries, expressed in literature and nonfiction. The Prize will be awarded annually to the most influential work in literature and nonfiction (in alternate years) that fosters Ukrainian-Jewish understanding, helping solidify Ukraine's place as a multi-ethnic society and giving truth to the motto, "Our stories are incomplete without each other."

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    The goal of the richly illustrated catalogue is to present an integrated narrative that looks at the experience of these two peoples together, in all its complexity — through periods of crisis, as well as long stretches of normal co-existence and multifaceted cultural interaction from antiquity to 1914.

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