By Peter Bejger The Ukrainian superstar vocalist, civil activist, and 2015 Yale World Fellow Svyatoslav “Slava” Vakarchuk drew a very large and lively crowd at the University of California, Berkeley on November 23, 2015 for...
In Israel there is a poignant interest in what is happening in Ukraine. The Consensus weekly seminar at the Conservative Yeshiva in Jerusalem, an initiative chaired by the famous refusenik and publisher Josef Begun, invited...
TORONTO - On March 3-7, the vice-president of the World Jewish Congress and chairman of the Confederation and Communities in Ukraine, Josef Zissels, spoke to both Ukrainian- and Russian-speaking communities in Toronto and Ottawa.
At this writing, no one knows what will come of the peace initiative launched last week by François Hollande and Angela Merkel. But what everyone should know is that it represents the last chance to...
The following commentary by Stanislav Gluzman, head of the Jewish Business Club in Kharkiv, appeared in Forum Daily, the largest Russian-language publication in the United States. The English-language version appears with Forum Daily’s permission. The...
CBC producer Alex Shprintsen grew up in Ukraine. He recently returned to explore the country's past and current conflicts.
LONDON—“We stood there together with Ukrainians, Crimean Tatars, Armenians, and others as a part of one fighting nation.” With this evocation of ethnic and religious diversity united in solidarity, Ukrainian Jewish leader Josef Zissels delivered...
Josef Zissels, a former Soviet political dissident, Vice-President of the World Jewish Congress, Chairman of the Vaad (Association of Jewish Organizations and Communities of Ukraine), Chairman of the Euro-Asian Jewish Congress, Freedom Prize, and Order...
Josef Zissels, one of Ukraine’s leading Jewish activists, visited the United States and Canada at the end of April to discuss how the current political unrest in his homeland is affecting the Jewish community. He...
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.
