KIEV – “If you force Jewish history out of Ukrainian history, then there is no Ukrainian history that makes any sense,” prominent Holocaust scholar Prof. Timothy Snyder said on Monday at a week-long conference in Kiev dedicated to the 75th anniversary of the Babi Yar massacre.
Prof. Paul Robert Magocsi, Member of the Board of Directors, Ukrainian Jewish Encounter. Paul Hunka, opera singer, art director of the Ukrainian Art Song Project, chairperson for commemorative concert. Oksana Lyniv, conductor of the...
The official 75th anniversary commemorations of the Nazi massacres that took place at the Babyn Yar ravine in Kyiv will take place in the Ukrainian capital between September 23-29. The Ukrainian Jewish Encounter, a Canada-based non-governmental organization, working in cooperation with the World Jewish Congress, Ukraine’s government and other Ukrainian Jewish and diaspora organizations, will also sponsor a series of public events in memory of what took place.
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In the framework of commemoration of the Babyn Yar tragedy on the occasion of its 75th anniversary, an international architectural competition of ideas “Memorial park: Babyn Yar – the Dorohozhychi necropolis” was held in Ukraine.
On September 29, 2016 will mark the 75th anniversary of Babyn Yar tragedy. During the upcoming week Kyiv will host a series of commemorative events. The events include a youth conference, a public symposium, commemoration of the victims in public space and a commemorative concert, announced Prof. Paul Robert Magocsi, Member of the Board of Ukrainian Jewish Encounter, Chair of Ukrainian Studies at the University of Toronto, at a press briefing held at Ukraine Crisis Media Center.
KERHONKSON, N.Y. – The professional organization Ukrainian Journalists of North America (UJNA) held its third conference here at the Soyuzivka Heritage Center on May 20-22.
Confronting a difficult history is no easy matter, particularly in Ukraine—a country caught between murderous regimes throughout the twentieth century. In his book Bloodlands, Yale historian Timothy Snyder places Ukraine at the center of a region where more than 14 million “non-combatants” were ruthlessly killed by the competing geopolitical goals of Adolf Hitler and Joseph Stalin between 1933 and 1945.
1-2 December 2016 Kharkiv, Ukraine An international scholarly conference organized by the Center for Interethnic Relations Research of Eastern Europe in Kharkiv and the Faculty of History of Vasyl Karazin Kharkiv National University. This event...
by Dr. Wolf Moskovich The Center for Judaic Studies at the Ostroh Academy was inaugurated on 25 April 2016. The event is of historic importance as the first and most authoritative translation of the Bible...
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 Part 1 of 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.
Since its launch in September 2022, the UJE Timeline has earned international recognition by winning eight international awards:
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."
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.
