During my recent official visit to Israel, I was asked a question that many of my counterparts abroad also raise: What are the main reasons for Czechia’s unwavering support for Israel? For a Czech diplomat,...
In the following interview, the well-known German historian and former head of the German-Ukrainian Historical Commission discusses the Russo-Ukrainian War and the roots of Russian imperialism. He reflects on these very topics in one of...
What causes empires to fall, can they fall without casualties, and which are the modern empires? Natalia Kryvda is a philosopher and a director of Academic Programmes at Edinburgh Business School Eastern Europe; James Alan...
The wars in Ukraine and Israel last year attracted considerable attention from the international community. With both wars still unresolved, our group discussed the political and diplomatic implications of the wars, the future of each...
For six years, from 1980-1985, I spent July in a sports camp near the village of Dvorichna in the Kharkiv region. Now, the northernmost and last 30-kilometer section of the bleeding front in the Russian-Ukrainian...
We meet "Queen of Shabbat" to the tunes of Sephardic Jews in the small synagogue of our newly constructed subdivision with a view of Mount Carmel. I ask a neighbor (his name is Asaf, and...
By Borys Lozhkin President of the Jewish Confederation of Ukraine Over two years after Russia’s brutal invasion of Ukraine, Ukrainians are still fighting valiantly. Two years on, Russian President Vladimir Putin is still spewing baseless...
"It's difficult to find any logic in Russia. We are dealing with labeling. They simply select the concepts that evoke the most negative reaction among the Russian public and use them: Nazis, neo-Nazis, Banderites, fascists,...
ABSTRACT. This interview with the Ukrainian-American historian Sergei (Serhii) Zhuk focuses on the role of public intellectuals in the conditions of Russia's aggression against Ukraine. Researching the activities of the Soviet secret services in North...
Today it is very difficult to deny the Holocaust, as many eyewitnesses are still alive, and their testimonies are unassailable. The tactics of deniers have therefore changed. They say that the Catastrophe did take place,...
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.
