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Martin Schulze Wessel: "The goal of the Russian war is annihilation"

Posted On: March 3rd, 2025

Posted In: Analysis, Ukrainian statehood and identity, Diverse Voices, Commentary and Analysis

In the following interview, the well-known German historian and former head of the German-Ukrainian Historical Commission discusses the Russo-Ukrainian War and the roots of Russian imperialism. He reflects on these very topics in one of...

Video: To prepare a grab-and-go bag: A tale of empires falling

Posted On: October 31st, 2024

Posted In: UJE Initiatives, Commentary, Book Fairs/Festivals, Diverse Voices, Commentary and Analysis, Outreach

What causes empires to fall, can they fall without casualties, and which are the modern empires? Natalia Kryvda is a philosopher and a director of Academic Programmes at Edinburgh Business School Eastern Europe; James Alan...

Video: "Wars in Ukraine and Israel from a diplomatic and political point of view"

Posted On: October 15th, 2024

Posted In: Book Fairs/Festivals, UJE Initiatives, Ukrainian statehood and identity, Analysis, Diverse Voices, Commentary and Analysis, Outreach

The wars in Ukraine and Israel last year attracted considerable attention from the international community. With both wars still unresolved, our group discussed the political and diplomatic implications of the wars, the future of each...

Scar of war: Jewish memory of a childhood in Ukraine

Posted On: August 1st, 2024

Posted In: Commentary, Commentary and Analysis

For six years, from 1980-1985, I spent July in a sports camp near the village of Dvorichna in the Kharkiv region. Now, the northernmost and last 30-kilometer section of the bleeding front in the Russian-Ukrainian...

"Ukrainian Shabbat" in Israel: Jewish religious memory and the war in Ukraine

Posted On: June 6th, 2024

Posted In: Commentary, Commentary and Analysis

We meet "Queen of Shabbat" to the tunes of Sephardic Jews in the small synagogue of our newly constructed subdivision with a view of Mount Carmel. I ask a neighbor (his name is Asaf, and...

Ukrainian nationalist Ivan Vovchuk's story must be brought to light — Opinion

Posted On: April 10th, 2024

Posted In: Commentary, Ukrainian- Jewish Relations History, The Holocaust in Ukraine, History, Commentary and Analysis

By Borys Lozhkin President of the Jewish Confederation of Ukraine Over two years after Russia’s brutal invasion of Ukraine, Ukrainians are still fighting valiantly. Two years on, Russian President Vladimir Putin is still spewing baseless...

Putin's path from philosemite to antisemite: What's behind his statements about Zelensky's Jewish background?

Posted On: October 16th, 2023

Posted In: Hromadske Radio, Analysis, Sponsored Projects, Audio/Visual Media, Commentary and Analysis

"It's difficult to find any logic in Russia. We are dealing with labeling. They simply select the concepts that evoke the most negative reaction among the Russian public and use them: Nazis, neo-Nazis, Banderites, fascists,...

Sergei Zhuk: "We should publicly name those individuals who are falsifying history"

Posted On: July 19th, 2023

Posted In: Analysis, Ukraina Moderna, Commentary and Analysis

ABSTRACT. This interview with the Ukrainian-American historian Sergei (Serhii) Zhuk focuses on the role of public intellectuals in the conditions of Russia's aggression against Ukraine. Researching the activities of the Soviet secret services in North...

Did Jews help the Nazis?

Posted On: August 4th, 2021

Posted In: Commentary, Hadashot, Sponsored Projects, Other Programs, Commentary and Analysis

Today it is very difficult to deny the Holocaust, as many eyewitnesses are still alive, and their testimonies are unassailable. The tactics of deniers have therefore changed. They say that the Catastrophe did take place,...

Dieter Pohl: “At present, there are practically no comprehensive studies on the history of the Holocaust in the Ukrainian lands”

Posted On: May 19th, 2021

Posted In: Commentary, Sponsored Projects, Ukraina Moderna, Other Programs, Commentary and Analysis

Our series of interviews with prominent historians who study genocides continues with a conversation with Dieter Pohl, professor of Contemporary History with a special emphasis on Eastern and South-Eastern Europe at the University of Klagenfurt...

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Martin Schulze Wessel: "The goal of the Russian war is annihilation"

Video: To prepare a grab-and-go bag: A tale of empires falling

Video: "Wars in Ukraine and Israel from a diplomatic and political point of view"

Scar of war: Jewish memory of a childhood in Ukraine

"Ukrainian Shabbat" in Israel: Jewish religious memory and the war in Ukraine

Ukrainian nationalist Ivan Vovchuk's story must be brought to light — Opinion

Putin's path from philosemite to antisemite: What's behind his statements about Zelensky's Jewish background?

Sergei Zhuk: "We should publicly name those individuals who are falsifying history"

Did Jews help the Nazis?

Dieter Pohl: “At present, there are practically no comprehensive studies on the history of the Holocaust in the Ukrainian lands”

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Ukrainian Jewish Encounter Timeline wins international recognition while countering Russian propaganda

Web Excellence Awards:

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Encounter: The Ukrainian-Jewish Literary Prize

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