The festival of Ukrainian culture, music, and food known as Ethno-Khutir has taken place in Israel since 2015, becoming the most formidable pro-Ukrainian event in the country’s cultural landscape. This year’s festival, however, saw...
Ukrainian Jewish Encounter (UJE) congratulates Anna Zharova and Vyacheslav Feldman, co-founders and co-chairs of the non-profit organization Israeli Friends of Ukraine (IFU), with the awarding of the Ukrainian Order of Merit (Third Degree). Volodymyr Zelensky,...
Why are we taught about Ukrainian-Jewish relations? On today's show, the Western Ukrainian National Republic (ZUNR), Ukrainian-Jewish relations during its existence, and Ruben Fahn's book. Our guest today is the historian Oleh Pavlyshyn, who is...
Leonid Finberg is a sociologist, public figure, editor-in-chief of Ukraine's "Dukh i Litera" publishing house, director of the Center for Researching the History and Culture of Eastern European Jewry of the National Academy of Sciences...
[Editor's note: Russia's unprovoked and criminal war against Ukraine suspended the regular work of many organizations, reorienting their efforts. So it is with the Ukrainian Jewish Encounter. In the coming weeks, we will run interviews...
[Editor's note: Russia’s unprovoked and criminal war against Ukraine suspended the regular work of many organizations, reorienting their efforts. So it is with the Ukrainian Jewish Encounter. In the coming weeks, we will run interviews...
On 9 June 2022, UJE Board Member Prof. Paul Robert Magocsi gave a talk, "Jews and Ukrainians: A Millennium of Co-Existence, as seen through the war," at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. The professor's presentation...
Oleksandr Oleksiiovych Slobodianyk, Righteous Among the Nations, died on 2 July 2022 at the age of 94 in the town of Lubny, Poltava oblast. He suffered a nervous breakdown after the news about the war,...
Tel Aviv's famed Sipur Pashut — Independent Bookstore and Ukrainian Jewish Encounter (UJE) co-sponsored an event about the book "Jews and Ukrainians: A Millennium of Co-Existence" and Russia's unprovoked war against Ukraine on June 8,...
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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.
As Ukraine defends its very existence against Russia, the Ukrainian Jewish Encounter Timeline serves to counter the malicious and false narratives about Ukraine and its history. The Timeline demonstrates that Ukraine is home to diverse peoples and, for centuries, one of the world’s oldest and largest Jewish communities.
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.
