Museum “Jewish Memory and Holocaust in Ukraine,” with the support of the United Jewish Community of Ukraine, has announced the opening of the photo exhibition “UKRAINIAN SHTETL. RETURN TO PLACES OF POWER.”
The exhibition opening will take place:
Date: August 30 (Sunday)
Time: 3:00 PM
Location: Dnipro, 4/26 Sholom-Aleichem Street, Menorah Center, Museum “Jewish Memory and Holocaust in Ukraine.”
For inquiries: +38 050 452 21 63, +38 056 717 70 16.
Admission is free.
The organizers note: “The photo project by Professor Yevgeny Kotlyar of the Kharkiv State Academy of Design and Arts presents to the viewer a collection of artistic photographs taken by the author from 2002 to 2024 during his travels through the former Jewish towns of Ukraine. The author reveals the ancient and semi-ruined world of shtetls (from Yiddish – town), with which the centuries-long history of the Jews of Ukraine before the Holocaust was connected. In this project, Yevgeny Kotlyar explores the significance of places where Jewish life once flourished. The author seeks to convey the feeling of the still-familiar world of the shtetl through the stylization of black-and-white photographs – a kind of poetic collages in spirit, combining history, memory, nostalgia, and the present day.
The exhibition was created with the financial support of the Beit Dan Jewish Cultural Center (Kharkiv), with the assistance of the Center for Jewish Studies at Fordham University in New York, the Kharkiv State Academy of Design and Arts, the Eastern Regional Scientific and Artistic Center of the National Academy of Arts of Ukraine, and the Ukrainian Association for Jewish Studies.
We invite you to explore this unique photo project and discover the lost world of Jewish towns in Ukraine.
Admission to the event is free.
The exhibition will run until October 14, 2026.”
