The Israeli singer Gad Elbaz together with Ukrainian actors produced at the beginning of 2017 a video clip of the song "L'chaim" (To Life!) that attracted more than five million viewers on YouTube in two...
Steven Spielberg created the Shoah Foundation after he made the movie Schindler’s List. Today there are 53,000 video testimonies in the collection. Anna Lenchovska, the Ukrainian coordinator of the Foundation, talks about the preservation of...
Rohatyn Jewish Heritage began its public activities in the new year by participating in a roundtable discussion 11 February 2017 in Lviv on preserving Jewish cultural heritage in western Ukraine and adjacent areas. The stated...
Welcome to Ukrainian Jewish Heritage on Nash Holos Ukrainian Roots Radio. I’m Peter Bejger. Leszek Allerhand vividly remembers that day in the summer of 1941, when he was a ten-year-old boy. The Germans had recently...
A crime without punishment: do we now need a legal acknowledgement of the crimes of Soviet communism? Punishment without a crime: political repressions in the Soviet Ukraine. A commentary by Yevhen Zakharov. Yevhen Zakharov is...
Welcome to Ukrainian Jewish Heritage on Nash Holos Ukrainian Roots Radio. I’m Peter Bejger. It was always a very scenic area of forests and ravines. A very pleasant green zone on the edge of the...
Peter Pomerantsev is a British journalist and the author of the book Nothing Is True and Everything Is Possible: The Surreal Heart of the New Russia. We are talking on air about his new book...
One hundred years ago, on 13 May 1916, the great Jewish writer Sholem Aleichem passed away in New York. He spent most of his life, beginning from birth, in Ukraine. A part of his personal...
The Ukrainian novelist Oksana Zabuzhko once wrote, “We, the poor relatives of the European household, have but a meager chance of being heard in the post-informational world.” Zabuzhko was writing for a specifically Western readership...
You are listening to Hromadske Radio and Iryna Slavinska is in the studio. Today’s broadcast of the program “Encounters” on Hromadske Radio continues our encounters in Brussels. Our focus is the work of the Jewish...
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.
