On 24 February 2022, Russia launched a full-scale invasion of Ukraine. This second stage of a war that began in 2014 came in the wake of earlier pronouncements by Russia's president Vladimir Putin, denying the...
The history of relations between Jews, Poles and Ukrainians contains tragic and good pages. It happened that the national hero of one nation was perceived as an enemy for another. It happens that history is...
A massive wave of Jewish pilgrims from around the world, primarily from Israel, broke all previous records in September 2026. Why is this happening despite the wartime dangers in Ukraine, and how did Putin's propaganda...
The screening of a recent film by director Mstyslav Chernov, 2000 Meters to Andriivka, was organized on 31 August 2026 by the Embassy of Ukraine in Israel and the "Created in Ukraine" initiative. The screening...
During his recent working visit to Poland, Ihor Kryvosheia, a professor in the Department of World History and Teaching Methods at Pavlo Tychyna Uman State Pedagogical University and head of the university's Polish Cultural and...
Pavlo Kozlenko outlines the initial milestones of Odesa's new Genocide Museum, an institution that has emerged as a vital platform for fostering mutual understanding among citizens of diverse nationalities amid Ukraine's ongoing resistance against Russian...
The Israeli tour of the Mariupol Drama Theater actors demonstrates how wartime tragedies unite Ukraine and Israel, fostering mutual empathy for each other's suffering. The Donetsk Regional Academic Drama Theater left the city of Mariupol,...
One hundred years ago, on 25 May 1926, Symon Petliura, the leader of the Ukrainian Directory in exile, was shot dead on a street in Paris by Sholem Schwarzbard, a Jewish poet, anarchist, and watchmaker....
In April 2026, the Central Synagogue of Ukraine (Kyiv Brodsky Synagogue) welcomed unusual guests — a large group of Christian and Muslim priests. David Milman, a Jewish chaplain of Ukraine's Armed Forces, welcomed his fellow...
Our conversation with the Odesa philosopher and expert in the field of memory research focuses on the conflict that broke out recently in Odesa around the question of (not) dismantling monuments to Pushkin, Babel, and...
In April 2026, Dr. Volodymyr Paniotto published the results of an interesting opinion survey conducted by the Kyiv International Institute of Sociology (KIIS), which he heads. At the end of 2025, KIIS explored attitudes toward...
Ukrainians and Jews have lived as neighbours for centuries, creating and sharing enduring cultures that continue to inform their identities today. Ukrainian Jewish Encounter (UJE) is proud to present Part 1 of an integrated narrative of these two peoples in the belief that there is much to be gained by viewing their historical experience together, in all its complexity.
Since its launch in September 2022, the UJE Timeline has earned international recognition by winning eight international awards:
The 'Encounter' prize aims to build on the common experiences of Ukrainians and Jews over the centuries, expressed in literature and nonfiction. The Prize will be awarded annually to the most influential work in literature and nonfiction (in alternate years) that fosters Ukrainian-Jewish understanding, helping solidify Ukraine's place as a multi-ethnic society and giving truth to the motto, "Our stories are incomplete without each other."
The goal of the richly illustrated catalogue is to present an integrated narrative that looks at the experience of these two peoples together, in all its complexity — through periods of crisis, as well as long stretches of normal co-existence and multifaceted cultural interaction from antiquity to 1914.
