I dream of reading a study or essay about what Uman was like in the late 19th century and the first half of the 20th century. A text that would explain how and why, having...
Soma Morgenstern (1890–1976) was a writer, playwright, journalist, and music critic who survived two world wars and experienced the loss of loved ones, a long separation from his wife and son, and cultural exile. He...
Raphael Lemkin was a lawyer of Jewish origin, a graduate of Lviv University, the author of the concept of genocide, and the initiator of the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of...
The Hebrew-language writer Shmuel Yosef Agnon is a towering figure in world literature. His often-complex works explore the intersection of modernity and traditional Jewish life, bringing to life the Jewish shtetl in which he grew...
Veronika Puhach, a feminist researcher and project coordinator at Amnesty International Ukraine, discusses how Milena Rudnytska, a renowned political and public figure with a Jewish background, fought for national and women's rights. The variety of...
Khrystyna Semeryn is a researcher, independent journalist, essayist, and gender expert. She is a member of the Ukrainian Association for Jewish Studies. Before her current position at Aalto University in Finland, she had done research...
The story of the mixed marriage of Ivan Rudnytsky and Ida Spiegel, who gave birth to the prominent figures Mykhailo Rudnytsky, Ivan Kedryn-Rudnytsky, Milena Rudnytska, Antin Rudnytsky, and Volodymyr Rudnytsky. Yelyzaveta Tsarehradska: Today’s guest of...
In April 2026, the Central Synagogue of Ukraine (Kyiv Brodsky Synagogue) welcomed unusual guests — a large group of Christian and Muslim priests. David Milman, a Jewish chaplain of Ukraine's Armed Forces, welcomed his fellow...
Our conversation with the Odesa philosopher and expert in the field of memory research focuses on the conflict that broke out recently in Odesa around the question of (not) dismantling monuments to Pushkin, Babel, and...
When Shmuel Yosef Agnon received the Nobel Prize, he reportedly said in jest, "Yesterday, half of Israel didn't know who Agnon was, and the other half didn't know who Nobel was. Today we are both...
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.
