On November 26, the Poniatowski Palace Museum hosted a presentation of the traveling exhibition “Journey with the “Ukrainian-Jewish Encounter” from Antiquity to 1939,” created by the Canadian non-governmental organization “Ukrainian-Jewish Encounter.” The purpose of the exhibition is to strengthen mutual understanding between the Ukrainian and Jewish peoples.

The presentation of the exhibition was attended by students of the Korsun-Shevchenko Pedagogical Vocational College named after T.G. Shevchenko, representatives of the city council, the Korsun Jewish community, employees of cultural institutions, students of the University of the Third Age of the Territorial Center for Social Services, and local historians.

The event was attended and delivered by: Vladyslav Hrynevych, head of the Ukrainian representative office of the Canadian non-governmental organization “Ukrainian-Jewish Meeting”; Lyudmila Simshag, deputy head of the Korsun-Shevchenkivsk City Council; Klavdia Kolesnikova, director of the regional museum of Jewish history “We come from the shtetl”, in 1986–2001 – senior research associate of the historical museum of the Reserve; Lidia Ovsienko, deputy director of the Reserve for scientific work.

Everyone present was enchanted by the singing of Valentyna Hryniuk, a talented composer, singer, and head of the exemplary Ukrainian song studio “Colors of Korsunya” of the Center for Children and Youth Creativity of the Korsun-Shevchenkivsk City Council.

Vladyslav Hrynevych presented books highlighting the history of Ukrainian-Jewish relations to representatives of the Reserve, the Jewish community, and the public library of the Korsun-Shevchenkivsk City Council. And everyone present at the presentation received exhibition catalogs.

We thank the Ukrainian representative office of the Canadian non-governmental organization “Ukrainian-Jewish Meeting” for this exhibition. For visitors to the Reserve, it will become a platform for gaining new knowledge about Ukrainian-Jewish relations.

We invite you to visit the exhibition, which will be open until December 15, 2025.