In 2019, the Ukrainian Association for Jewish Studies organized the series of lectures "Jews of Ukraine: From Old Rus to Independence". The project is supported by the Dutch Jewish Humanitarian Fund. The venue is the Jewish community center "Halom".
Would you like to learn more about the history and traditions of the East European Jewry? To explore the cultural and civilizational heritage of the Ukrainian Jews, Jewish literature and modern translations from Yiddish? To find out when the Jewish communities first appeared in the territories of modern Ukraine, how they coexisted with their neighbours, and what was their everyday life in times of bloom and catastrophes?
We invite you to visit the lectures of distinguished scholars, professors of Master Program in Jewish Studies and Interdisciplinary Certificate Program at Jewish Studies of the National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy, and specialists from other academic institutions.
You can find the schedule and videos from the previous lectures at http://bit.ly/UAJS_Jews_of_Ukraine.
We kindly ask you to provide feedback on this series of lectures organized by UAJS.
Events organized within the series of lectures:
January 20, 2019. Oleksandra Fishel, "Tree in the Jewish Culture: An Image and a Symbol."
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February 15, 2019. Kateryna Malakhova, "Hassidic Traditions of Purim."
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February 17, 2019. Taissa Sydorchuk, "Maximilian Goldstein's Collection of Jewish Antiquities: A History of Creation, Exposition, Preservation, and Research."
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March 10, 2019. Daryna Podhornova, "Jewish Women Facing the Challenges of the 19th Century."
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March 31, 2019. Oleg Bubenok and Vitaly Chernoivanenko, "Jews in Old Rus: Who They Were and Where They Come From."
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April 14, 2019. Serhiy Hirik, "Jews in Late Medieval Ukraine: 300 Years of History."
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April 21, 2019. Serhiy Hirik, "Jews in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth: An Age of Prosperity and Catastrophes."
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May 12, 2019. Iryna Serheyeva, " 'It is a Time to Create Jewish Ethnography!': The Shimon An-sky's Expedition, 1912–1914."
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June 9, 2019. Iryna Serheyeva and Oleksiy Khamray, "Centennial of the Collection: Jewish Documents in the National Library of Ukraine."
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June 23, 2019. Yuri Radchenko and Serhiy Hirik, "Holocaust on the Ukrainian-Russian-Belorusian Borderland."
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September 15, 2019. Oleksandra Uralova, "The Pale of Settlement and the Laughter through Tears: Traveling across Ukrainian Cities and Towns with the Characters of Sholem Aleichem."
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October 6, 2019. Nadia Ufimtseva, "Jewish Books: A Journey Through Time and Space with Readers and Marginalia."
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October 13, 2019. Vitaly Chernoivanenko, "Autonomy, Revolution, or Own State? Jewish Movements in Ukraine in the Late 19th and Early 20th Century."
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November 10, 2019. Maksym Martyn, "Crimean Karaites: Between Myth and Tragedy".
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November 17, 2019. Serhiy Hirik, "Jews of Dnieper Ukraine During the Long 19th Century."
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November 17, 2019. Olena (Michal) Stamova, "Shmuel Yosef Agnon's Literary Works: Mystical Realism Inspired by Folklore Motifs of Ukrainian Jewry."
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December 8, 2019. Tetyana Batanova, "From Jargon to the Official Language: Yiddish in Kyiv in 1917–1919".
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December 15, 2019. Vitaly Chernoivanenko, Serhiy Hirik, Nadia Ufimtseva, and Vladyslava Moskalets, "How and Why Do We Have to Study Jewish Heritage of Ukraine?"
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