Video: Meridian Czernowitz, Josef Zissels and Russia's war against Ukraine

Ukrainian Jewish Encounter (UJE) is a long-standing sponsor of the Meridian Czernowitz International Poetry Festival in Chernivtsi, Ukraine, which took place on 6–8 September 2024.

This year's program included discussions on the Ukrainian-Jewish literary dialogue, disinformation and Russia's war against Ukraine.

Expanding on his lecture "War and Identity" from last year, Soviet dissident Josef Zissels, co-president of VAAD (Ukraine's Association of Jewish Organizations and Communities), talked about Russia's war against Ukraine, now in its 11^th year, and prospects for the future.

The video of his talk in Ukrainian is below.

Josef Zissels, "The 11th year of the war: complex answers to simple questions", Meridian Czernowitz, Chernivtsi, Ukraine, September 7, 2024

Related:
We will have to live in wartime conditions until Russia disintegrates and democratic states emerge on our borders — Josef Zissels

Video:
Josef Zissels, Lecture "War and Identity," Meridian Czernowitz, Chernivtsi, Ukraine, September 9, 2023