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On November 15 World Day of Jewish Education was celebrated in Dnipropetrovsk. On this occasion leading presenters held lectures, master classes and workshops in the "Menora" Center. Dr Igor Shchupak, "Tkuma" Institute and the Holocaust Museum Director, held a lecture-discussion for members of "Hillel" Dnipropetrovsk student organization and sessions for members of "Solomonika" Jewish cultural center.
Both sessions were devoted to the theme of historical myths and their impact on modern society. Each lecture was followed by a discussion of range of current issues, including modern socio-political situation in Ukraine and the world.
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November 5-8, 2015 Lviv hosted International Conference Limmud Ukraine 2015. For more than 30 years the annual conferences are held around the world gathering from several hundred to thousands of participants. In 2008 Limud was held in Ukraine for the first time.
Among the speakers of Limmud Ukraine 2015 there were: Eliav Belotsercovsky, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the State of Israel to Ukraine; photographer Borys Bukhman; Aharon Weiss, Holocaust researcher, Joint Program Coordinator in CIS, Scholarly Adviser of "Tkuma" Institute; Lyudmyla Hrynevych, Director of the Holodomor Ukrainian Research Center, a leading researcher at the Institute of History of NASU; human rights activist and writer Larysa Denysenko; Sofia Dyak, Director of the Center for Urban History; composer, actor, and director Mike Kaufman-Portnіkov; Myroslav Marynovych, Ukrainian dissident, Vice-Rector of the Ukrainian Catholic University; Igor Shchupak, "Tkuma" Institute and Museum "Jewish Memory and Holocaust in Ukraine" Director, and others.
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On November 1, 2015 "Tkuma" Institute and Museum "Jewish Memory and Holocaust in Ukraine" welcomed delegation of "Drzewo Oliwne" (Poland) led by Timothy Rabinek - Polish public figure and one of the organizers of the international youth program "Drzewo Oliwne".
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On November 1, 2015 the meeting of NCSEJ (National Coalition Supporting Eurasian Jewry) leaders with Dnipropetrovsk Jewish Youth was conducted. Dr Igor Shchupak, "Tkuma" Institute and the Holocaust Museum Director, was invited to the meeting as moderator. Young people took an active part in the discussion of a wide range of topical issues, among them - the problems of antisemitism in the modern world, employment opportunities for Jewish youth, prospects of youth exchanges, implementation of cultural and educational programs.
After the round-table American Delegation visited Museum "Jewish Memory and Holocaust in Ukraine".
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On October 20, 2014 within the framework of the project “See Ukraine with Your Own Eyes” the group of young public activists from Russia visited “Tkuma” Institute and the Holocaust Museum. Public and opposition figures, journalists, bloggers have an opporty to look at the modern Ukraine not through TV screens full of Kremlin propaganda, but during the direct visits to the country. This meeting became the 4 and gathered activists from Arkhangelsk, Moscow, Ozersk, Plios, Rostov-on-Don and Saint Pitersburg.