Ola Hnatiuk: "The past directly impacts the present. It can be explained in the simplest terms: we have run from the past for so long that the time has finally come to confront it and...
What materials anchor the exhibition "Ukrainian-Jewish Century: Photos and Stories from 1920 to 2025" at the Babyn Yar National Historical and Memorial Reserve? Do the layers of unfolding current events cloud our memory of past...
Serhiy Hirik: "The Nazis did not create antisemitism from scratch. It existed practically everywhere Jews lived and even where they did not" Serhiy Hirik, a PhD in History, specializes in the history of Ukrainian Jews...
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...
[Editor’s note: This interview originally aired in Ukrainian in October 2024.] Olha Limonova, coordinator of the formal education department at the Ukrainian Center for Holocaust Studies, discusses problems and changes in Holocaust remembrance. The Ukrainian...
Tetiana Pastushenko Tetiana Pastushenko reviews Centers of Terror. The Offices of the Chiefs of the Security Police and SD in the Reichskommissariat Ukraine, a book by the German historian Christian Schmittwilken published in Germany in...
For all the advantages of the dramatic plot and talented acting in this American series, one cannot fail to note the gross distortions of historical truth in scenes depicting the Jewish pogrom in Lviv that...
Dr. Yehor Vradii, deputy director of the Jewish Memory and Holocaust in Ukraine Museum in Dnipro and deputy director of Tkuma: Ukrainian Institute for Holocaust Studies, discusses how Ukrainians preserve the memory of Jewish tragedies....
The annual international academic conference "Special Features of Shaping Academic Discourse on the Holocaust in European Countries" was held at the Institute for World History of Ukraine's National Academy of Sciences in Kyiv. Ukrainian scholars...
Ukrainian sociologist Mykola Homanyuk and German historian and sociologist Mischa Gabowitsch discuss their recently published book, Monuments and Territory: War Memorials in Russian-Occupied Ukraine. They examine the strategies behind Russia's commemorative policies in the Ukrainian...
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.
