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Reflections on Jews and Ukrainians: A Millennium of Co-Existence

Posted On: April 25th, 2018

Posted In: Commentary, Sponsored Projects, Publications, Commentary and Analysis

Three years ago, Paul Robert Magocsi, Chair of Ukrainian Studies at the University of Toronto, started collaborating with Yohanan Petrovsky-Shtern, professor of Jewish studies and Jewish history at Northwestern University, on a book about Ukrainian-Jewish...

“The theme of Andrei Sheptytsky had an impact on me”: Shimon Redlich, a historian who survived the Holocaust

Posted On: April 23rd, 2018

Posted In: Commentary, Hromadske Radio, Sponsored Projects, Audio/Visual Media, History, Metropolitan Andrei Sheptytsky, Commentary and Analysis

Professor Shimon Redlich was saved by a Ukrainian family during the Holocaust. We talk with him about Andrei Sheptytsky and the reasons why he has not been awarded the title of Righteous Among the Nations....

Historian speaks at Lviv Media Forum on morality, meaning, and the miracle of metaphysics on the Maidan

Posted On: October 18th, 2017

Posted In: Commentary, Nash Holos, Sponsored Projects, Audio/Visual Media, Commentary and Analysis

Truth and lies. Facts and fiction. Reality and the unreal. In today’s unsettled, and often bizarre, media landscape the very definition of these basic terms takes on an urgent meaning. How they are defined—and more...

About Jewish Lviv and the Deliberate Erasure of Historical Memory: Andrii Pavlyshyn

Posted On: June 21st, 2017

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

Our guest in the “Encounters” studio is Andrii Pavlyshyn, a Lviv-based historian, translator, and lecturer at the UCU [Ukrainian Catholic University]. In 2015 he became the first Ukrainian translator in the last sixty-five years to...

Wolf Moskovich’s foreword to a book on Zionist leader Vladimir (Ze’ev) Jabotinsky

Posted On: May 25th, 2017

Posted In: Commentary, Commentary and Analysis

[Editor’s Note: On May 14, 1948, David Ben-Gurion announced the establishment of the State of Israel. It was a date that Zionist leader Vladimir (Ze’ev) Jabotinsky would not live to see. Some eight years earlier,...

A Crime without Punishment. A Punishment without Crime

Posted On: March 27th, 2017

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

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...

Josef Zissels: A Ukrainian Jewry Is Being Created

Posted On: March 6th, 2017

Posted In: Commentary, Commentary and Analysis

Josef Zissels, the head of the Association of Jewish Organizations and Communities of Ukraine, visited Israel at the beginning of March 2017. In a special interview with the Ukrainian Jewish Encounter, he responded to questions...

KyivPost: Bernard-Henri Levy: Putin, Ukraine and historical revisionism

Posted On: May 11th, 2015

Posted In: Commentary, Commentary and Analysis

Russian President Vladimir Putin is waging his war of aggression against Ukraine with BUK surface-to-air missiles, tanks, and mercenaries, some of whom enter Ukraine from Russia in covered trucks from which the license plates have...

Magosci: European Ukraine, or Eurasian Little Russia?

Posted On: May 5th, 2015

Posted In: Commentary, Commentary and Analysis

On November 29, 2014, UJE board member Paul Robert Magocsi gave the keynote address at the Canada-Ukraine Parliamentary Program Model Ukraine Conference in Lviv, Ukraine. The following is his speech, which was recently translated into...

Q&A: Josef Zissels: Ukrainian Jews are part of Ukraine

Posted On: April 8th, 2015

Posted In: Commentary, Commentary and Analysis

The Kyiv-based vice-president of the World Jewish Congress and chair of the Euro-Asian Jewish Congress, Josef Zissels, visited Ottawa March 3 and Toronto March 4 to share his perspectives on Ukrainian-Jewish relations in Ukraine and...

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Ukrainian Jewish Encounter Timeline wins international recognition while countering Russian propaganda

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.

Reflections on Jews and Ukrainians: A Millennium of Co-Existence

“The theme of Andrei Sheptytsky had an impact on me”: Shimon Redlich, a historian who survived the Holocaust

Historian speaks at Lviv Media Forum on morality, meaning, and the miracle of metaphysics on the Maidan

About Jewish Lviv and the Deliberate Erasure of Historical Memory: Andrii Pavlyshyn

Wolf Moskovich’s foreword to a book on Zionist leader Vladimir (Ze’ev) Jabotinsky

A Crime without Punishment. A Punishment without Crime

Josef Zissels: A Ukrainian Jewry Is Being Created

KyivPost: Bernard-Henri Levy: Putin, Ukraine and historical revisionism

Magosci: European Ukraine, or Eurasian Little Russia?

Q&A: Josef Zissels: Ukrainian Jews are part of Ukraine

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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