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Video: To prepare a grab-and-go bag: A tale of empires falling

Posted On: October 31st, 2024

Posted In: UJE Initiatives, Commentary, Book Fairs/Festivals, Diverse Voices, Commentary and Analysis, Outreach

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...

Scar of war: Jewish memory of a childhood in Ukraine

Posted On: August 1st, 2024

Posted In: Commentary, Commentary and Analysis

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...

"Ukrainian Shabbat" in Israel: Jewish religious memory and the war in Ukraine

Posted On: June 6th, 2024

Posted In: Commentary, Commentary and Analysis

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...

Ukrainian nationalist Ivan Vovchuk's story must be brought to light — Opinion

Posted On: April 10th, 2024

Posted In: Commentary, Ukrainian- Jewish Relations History, The Holocaust in Ukraine, History, Commentary and Analysis

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...

Did Jews help the Nazis?

Posted On: August 4th, 2021

Posted In: Hadashot, Commentary, Sponsored Projects, Other Programs, Commentary and Analysis

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,...

Dieter Pohl: “At present, there are practically no comprehensive studies on the history of the Holocaust in the Ukrainian lands”

Posted On: May 19th, 2021

Posted In: Commentary, Sponsored Projects, Ukraina Moderna, Other Programs, Commentary and Analysis

Our series of interviews with prominent historians who study genocides continues with a conversation with Dieter Pohl, professor of Contemporary History with a special emphasis on Eastern and South-Eastern Europe at the University of Klagenfurt...

The tradition of mutual influence in the cultures of humankind is immense, and we do not know much about it: Leonid Finberg

Posted On: May 10th, 2021

Posted In: Commentary, Hromadske Radio, Sponsored Projects, Literature, Culture, Audio/Visual Media, Commentary and Analysis

A conversation about new books published by Dukh i Litera Our guest on today’s show is Leonid Finberg, director of the Center for the Studies of History and Culture of East European Jewry and editor...

Museum of the Jewish People: What is Israel’s latest tourist attraction about?

Posted On: April 1st, 2021

Posted In: Commentary, Culture, Commentary and Analysis, Ethnography

Opened in the spring of 2021 after a large-scale renewal that lasted for ten years, the former Museum of the Diaspora got a new name, a new concept, and a totally updated exhibition. I spent...

Vitaly Portnikov: Shevchenko was not an antisemite

Posted On: March 29th, 2021

Posted In: Commentary, Ukrainian- Jewish Relations History, History, Commentary and Analysis

[Editor’s note: This article by renowned journalist Vitaly Portinikov originally appeared in November 2018.] One hundred and sixty years ago, in November 1858, the journal Russkii vestnik (Russian Messenger) published a letter written by a...

From the Carpathians to the mountains of Galilee: The 100th anniversary of the "Galician project" to foster the rebirth of Israel

Posted On: March 18th, 2021

Posted In: Commentary, Ukrainian- Jewish Relations History, History, Commentary and Analysis

One hundred years ago, in the spring of 1921, an experiment that became the stuff of Zionist legend ended. Myths were created and scores of books and plays were written about Bitanya-Ilit (in the Lower...

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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.

Encounter: The Ukrainian-Jewish Literary Prize

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."

FROM ANTIQUITY TO 1914

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.

Video: To prepare a grab-and-go bag: A tale of empires falling

Scar of war: Jewish memory of a childhood in Ukraine

"Ukrainian Shabbat" in Israel: Jewish religious memory and the war in Ukraine

Ukrainian nationalist Ivan Vovchuk's story must be brought to light — Opinion

Did Jews help the Nazis?

Dieter Pohl: “At present, there are practically no comprehensive studies on the history of the Holocaust in the Ukrainian lands”

The tradition of mutual influence in the cultures of humankind is immense, and we do not know much about it: Leonid Finberg

Museum of the Jewish People: What is Israel’s latest tourist attraction about?

Vitaly Portnikov: Shevchenko was not an antisemite

From the Carpathians to the mountains of Galilee: The 100th anniversary of the "Galician project" to foster the rebirth of Israel

Ukrainian Jewish Encounter Timeline wins international recognition while countering Russian propaganda

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Ukrainian Jewish Encounter Timeline wins international recognition while countering Russian propaganda

Web Excellence Awards:

w3 Awards:

Anthem Awards:

Communicator Awards:

Encounter: The Ukrainian-Jewish Literary Prize

Download the complete 168-page book

A Journey Through the Ukrainian-Jewish Encounter

FROM ANTIQUITY TO 1914

All-Ukrainian Student's Drawing Competition 2021/2022

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