Elena Ethel (Elly) Schlein is an Italian politician. She was born in 1985 in Lugano, Switzerland. Her father, Melvin Schlein, is an American academic and political scientist of Jewish origin, and her mother, Maria Paola...
Ivan Dziuba was a dissident, literary critic, Minister of Culture of Ukraine, and co-founder of the People's Movement of Ukraine, the first opposition party in Soviet Ukraine. He played a key role in restoring Ukraine's...
Barbra Streisand is one of the most popular American actresses and singers of Jewish origin. She has won two Oscars and Emmy, Grammy, and Golden Globe awards. She was born in 1942 in New York...
It is impossible to talk about the modern Ukrainian publishing sector and Jewish studies without mentioning Leonid Finberg, one of the key figures in these fields. Mr. Finberg, born in 1948, is a sociologist, public...
A beautiful green square named after Golda Meir will appear on Borychiv Tik Street in Kyiv's Podil district — next to Andriyivsky Uzviz, one of the most famous tourist routes in the Ukrainian capital. Golda...
The Encounters program on Hromadske Radio has invited Olena Kolb, a representative of Kesher Project Ukraine, to talk about Golda Meir, an outstanding Kyiv-born Israeli politician and stateswoman, on the occasion of her birthday anniversary...
Rachel Korn is closely related to the Jewish literary environment of interwar Galicia. Together with Rokhl Auerbakh and Debora Vogel, she launched the Zuschtajer journal, laying the foundation for experimental Yiddish literature of the time....
Josef Zissels, a dissident of Jewish origin, is the co-president of Ukraine's Association of Jewish Organizations and Communities (VAAD) and executive vice-president of Ukraine's Congress of Ethnic Communities. He is an outstanding public figure who...
Kharkiv is the second largest city in Ukraine. In 2024, as it fights off Russian aggression, Kharkiv marks the 370th anniversary of a Ukrainian Cossack fortress, its inception point. Jews have been an important, influential,...
Many prominent political leaders of Israel, including two presidents and three prime ministers, come from Ukraine. One of them is Moshe Sharett (born Moshe Chertok). He was born in 1894 in the city of Kherson....
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.
