Adrian Karatnycky: "Battleground Ukraine: From Independence to the War with...
The Atlantic Council’s Eurasia Center hosted an event on 12 June 2024 to launch the book Battleground Ukraine: From Independence to the War with Russia with author Adrian Karatnycky, in conversation...
View Article"Rabbi’s Hen": A Jewish-Ukrainian ironic fairy tale
Fact: you can't read Russian folktales to Jewish children as they don't teach what is needed. I read "Ryaba the Hen" to my son, which left me in a mental shock. The plot is as... The post "Rabbi’s...
View ArticleMagocsi speaks in Naples at the Stati Generali dell’Ucrainistica Italiana...
Paul Robert Magocsi, Board Member of the Ukrainian Jewish Encounter and Chair of Ukrainian Studies at the University of Toronto, appeared at the Stati Generali dell’Ucrainistica Italiana conference...
View ArticleThe Ukrainian Auxiliary Police in Kyiv and Adjacent Areas, pt. 1: Formation...
[Abstract: This research article by the Ukrainian historian Daniil Sytnyk examines the particularities of the formation and activity of the auxiliary police in Nazi-occupied Ukraine. The author...
View ArticleMagocsi on Canada's Kontakt TV
Paul Robert Magocsi, Board Member of the Ukrainian Jewish Encounter, a Canadian charitable organization, speaks with Kontakt Ukrainian TV about Babyn Yar: History and Memory, a new publication that...
View ArticleAdrian Karatnycky: When Ukraine was invisible
The West long accepted the Soviet narrative that the country was indistinct. Our understanding of its culture and people is still incomplete.Ukraine has never received as much attention as it does...
View ArticleMuseum gangsters: How Moscow loots and appropriates Ukraine's unique Jewish...
The International Council of Museums (ICOM), headquartered in Paris, is the most prestigious global organization of museums and museum professionals. In mid-June 2024, President of ICOM Ukraine...
View Article"These people aimed to prove that Jewish art existed." Lviv's Jewish artists...
Art critic Bohdana Pinchevska talks about secular Jewish art of Eastern Galicia in 1900–1939. Bohdana Pinchevska's book on secular Jewish art Yelyzaveta Tsarehradska: Today, we will talk about your...
View ArticleUJE to start serializing "Jews and Ukrainians: A Millennium of Co-Existence":...
Jews and Ukrainians: A Millennium of Co-Existence is an award-winning book that explores the relationship between two of Ukraine’s most historically significant peoples over the centuries. In its...
View ArticleVideo: Paul Robert Magocsci speaks at John Cabot University in Rome
UJE Board Member Paul Robert Magocsi appeared at John Cabot University in Rome on 4 June 2024 at an event presented by the university’s president Franco Pavoncello, and moderated by Federigo...
View ArticleThe Ukrainian auxiliary police in Kyiv and adjacent areas, pt. 2: Scholarship...
[Abstract: In one of his interviews, Vladimir Putin declared that one and a half million Jews were killed during the Second World War, "first and foremost, at the hands of Banderites." This thesis,...
View ArticleRokhl Auerbakh (1903-1976)
Rokhl Auerbakh is one of those women who had a tremendous impact on the history of the 20th century. She was born into the Jewish family of Khanin Auerbakh and his wife Mania (née Kimelman)... The post...
View ArticleChapter 2.1: "Jews and Ukrainians: A Millennium of Co-Existence"
Jews and Ukrainians: A Millennium of Co-Existence is an award-winning book that explores the relationship between two of Ukraine’s most historically significant peoples over the centuries. In its...
View ArticleUkrainian Jew fighting for Ukraine and Israel in Italy
Marina Sorina, a native of Kharkiv, is a professional guide in Verona, a translator, and an active participant in Italian political life. In an exclusive interview, she talks about having a...
View Article'Battleground Ukraine' Review: Kyiv before and after the War
In the years before Vladimir Putin's invasion, Ukraine's post-Soviet leaders sought a balancing act between Russia and the West. By Arthur Herman June 21, 2024 Since 1991, Ukraine has experienced...
View ArticleUJE at the international seminar "Importance of NGO activities amid major...
On 8 May 2024, Ukrainian-Jewish Encounter held the international seminar "Importance of NGO activities amid major wars in Ukraine and Israel: Exchanging experience on the way to victory" in partnership...
View ArticleChapter 2.2: "Jews and Ukrainians: A Millennium of Co-Existence"
Jews and Ukrainians: A Millennium of Co-Existence is an award-winning book that explores the relationship between two of Ukraine’s most historically significant peoples over the centuries. In its...
View ArticleThe long list announced for the 2024 'Encounter' prize
In December 2019, the Canadian charitable non-profit organization Ukrainian Jewish Encounter, in cooperation with Ukraine's NGO "Publishers Forum" (Lviv, Ukraine), announced a new initiative entitled...
View ArticleChapter 2.3: "Jews and Ukrainians: A Millennium of Co-Existence"
Jews and Ukrainians: A Millennium of Co-Existence is an award-winning book that explores the relationship between two of Ukraine’s most historically significant peoples over the centuries. In its...
View ArticleKai Struve: "Coming to terms with the past, especially the Holocaust, should...
The role of Ukrainian nationalists in the Holocaust is a question that figures prominently in Russian propaganda. The following interview with the German historian Kai Struve, a specialist in...
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