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....
Rokhl Auerbakh is one of those women who had a tremendous impact on the history of the 20th century. She was born into the Jewish family of Khanin Auerbakh and his wife Mania (née Kimelman)...
Shmuel Yosef Agnon (Czaczkes) went down in history as the first Hebrew-language writer who became a Nobel laureate in literature and received this award as a citizen of the State of Israel. In his Nobel...
Ida Fink (née Landau) is one of the writers who described the Holocaust richly and deeply based on her own experience. She was born in 1921 in Zbarazh (now Ternopil Oblast) and raised in a...
It is difficult to imagine any discourse about Polish-language interwar poetry without the figure of Zuzanna Ginczanka. Born as Polina Gincburg in Kyiv in 1917, she became a resident of Rivne only a few months...
Natan (Anatoly) Sharansky (b. 1948) is a well-known Israeli politician of Ukrainian-Jewish origin and an illustrious human rights advocate. He was born in 1948 in Stalino (now Donetsk) into a Jewish family originally from Odesa....
Ukrainian-Jewish relations are rich in common pages of history and outstanding figures who once played a significant role in Israel's formation and development. One of them is Ephraim Katzir (Katchalski), a native of Kyiv, an...
Debora Vogel is one of the most prominent figures among the 20th-century Yiddish-speaking authors of Eastern Europe. She wrote her texts mainly in Yiddish and Polish, rarely in Hebrew. Born in 1900 (or 1902, according...
Bohdan Stupka (1941–2012), born in Kulykiv in the Lviv region of western Ukraine, was an illustrious Ukrainian actor and a Minister of Culture of Ukraine who established a particularly striking presence in the Ukrainian-Jewish encounter....
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.
