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Ukraine in Context: Lviv

Jewish Perspectives on Ukraine, Present and Past (video recording available)

British expert in international law Philippe Sands, Ukrainian historian Sofia Dyak, and psychologist Marina Chernivsky will talk about the Jewish history of Lviv, the politics of memory in the Soviet Union and in Ukraine, and about international law and crimes against humanity, including in the context of Russia’s current war of aggression.

recording available

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Where

W. M. Blumenthal Academy,
Klaus Mangold Auditorium
Fromet-und-Moses-Mendelssohn-Platz 1, 10969 Berlin
(Opposite the Museum)

Video recording from 8 May 2023; Jewish Museum Berlin 2023

Lviv, or Lwów, and sometimes also referred to as Lemberg, is in Galicia, and is the largest city in western Ukraine. Since the eighteenth century, it has become a hotly contested region of imperial, national and supranational interest. Lviv has belonged to different states at different times, from Austria and Poland to the Soviet Union. It therefore seems no accident that two leading figures of modern international law studied at the University of Lviv: jurist Raphael Lemkin, who coined the term “genocide,” and legal scholar Hersch Lauterpacht, who made crucial contributions to the development of international law and crimes against humanity.

The special political history of the city of Lviv, as well as the almost complete annihilation during the Second World War of the once thriving Jewish community, is the topic of the fifth edition of our discussion series Ukraine in Context.

In the discussion series Ukraine in Context, the Jewish Museum Berlin, the German Federal Agency for Civic Education and OFEK aim to make Jewish perspectives on the war in Ukraine audible and visible, and provide insights into the complexities of present-day Ukraine in its historical context. Using the cities Kharkiv, Chernivtsi, Odesa, Dnipro, and Lviv, Ukrainian artists and academics will talk about life and survival in war, about plural affiliations, competing memories, identities and visions of cities and history.

A series of talks by the Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung (German Federal Agency for Civic Education), the Jewish Museum Berlin and OFEK.

Where, when, what?

  • WhenMon 8 May 2023, 7 pm
  • Where W. M. Blumenthal Academy,
    Klaus Mangold Auditorium
    Fromet-und-Moses-Mendelssohn-Platz 1, 10969 Berlin
    (Opposite the Museum)
    See location on map

Discussion Series: Ukraine in Context (6)

  • Ukraine in Context

    The Jewish Museum Berlin, the German Federal Agency for Civic Education, and OFEK are coming together for a discussion series to make Jewish perspectives on and from the war audible and visible and shed light on the complexities of present-day Ukraine against the backdrop of its history.

  • Still from the animated film “The Lemberg Machine”. A female figure stands with her back to the camera in a deserted, gloomy street.

    The Lemberg Machine

    Film screening and talk with Dana Kavelina and David Riff, part of the series “Ukraine in Context”, in English

    Movie
    Tue 2 Jul 2024, 7 pmr

  • Graphic: Ukraine outline as berry color area, background blue, white lettering Lwiw in English and Ukrainian.

    Lviv

    Jewish Perspectives on Ukraine, Present and Past with Philippe Sands, Sofia Dyak and Marina Chernivsky

    Video Recording
    8 May 2023

  • The outline of Ukraine in berry color with blue background and the lettering Dnipro in German and Ukrainien.

    Dnipro

    Jewish Perspectives on Ukraine, Present and Past with Tetiana Portnova, Anna Medvedovska, and Oleg Rostovtsev, in German

    Video Recording
    2 Mar 2023

  • The outline of Ukraine in berry color with blue background and the lettering Odesa in German and Ukrainien.

    Odesa

    Jewish Perspectives on Ukraine, Present and Past, with Mikhail Rashkovetsky, Anna Misyuk and Nikolay Karabinovych, in German

    Video Recording
    19 Jan 2023

  • Ukraine outline as berry color area, background blue, white lettering Chernivtsi in German and Ukrainian.

    Chernivtsi

    Jewish Perspectives on Ukraine, Present and Past with Mykola Kuschnir, Oxana Matiychuk and Peter Rychlo, in German

    Video Recording
    24 Nov 2022

  • Ukraine outline as berry color area, background blue, white lettering Kharkiv in German and Ukrainian.

    Kharkiv

    Jewish Perspectives on Ukraine, Present and Past, with Yuriy Gurzhy, Sofia Onufriv and Serhiy Zhadan, in German

    Video Recording
    9 Oct 2022

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    Ukraine

    Jewish Perspectives on Ukraine, Present and Past

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    Issue 24 (2022)

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    Trust is an Essential Part of Life

    Interview with Marina Chernivsky on the association OFEK which she founded and the impact of the war on Ukrainian society

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