The Jewish Museum in Dnipro has unveiled an exhibit called “Sataniv: The Lost World of an Ancient Jewish Cemetery”. The exhibition curator is the regional historian, explorer, photographer, and tourist guide Dmytro Poliukhovych, who is...
Tetiana Hetsilevych, program director of Project Kesher Ukraine, talks about the importance of connecting with ancestors and how the organization tries to bring Ukrainian Jewry to the Ukrainian language. Yelyzaveta Tsarehradska: Our conversation is one...
Project Kesher Ukraine is a national Ukrainian Jewish women's civic organization that supports female entrepreneurs, promotes gender equality, and encourages Jewish women to preserve their people's traditions and pass them on to the next generation....
[Editor's note: Russia's unprovoked and criminal war against Ukraine suspended the regular work of many organizations, reorienting their efforts. So it is with the Ukrainian Jewish Encounter. In the coming weeks, we will run interviews...
[Editor's note: Russia's unprovoked and criminal war against Ukraine suspended the regular work of many organizations, reorienting their efforts. So it is with the Ukrainian Jewish Encounter. In the coming weeks, we will run interviews...
How important are local identities? Do they exist in Ukraine? How did people learn to coexist with each other after many years? On the latest "Encounters" program devoted to Ukrainian-Jewish relations, we talked about Slobidska...
A look at the inter-ethnic coexistence and cohabitation of Galicians in the years between the two world wars A conversation with Petro Chorniy, a historian, social anthropologist, Candidate of Historical Sciences, and Research Fellow of...
A conversation about book production on the territory of Ukraine in the last few centuries with Nadia Ufimtseva, who holds an M.A. in Jewish Studies. She is a graduate student at the National University of...
A conversation with art historian Diana Klochko about Hanukkah, Christmas, and New Year’s lights Iryna Slavinska: How new is the Kyiv tradition of installing Hanukkah candles on Kontraktova Ploshcha? Diana Klochko: They have been installed...
We talked about Ostap Slyvynsky’s poetic cycle Imena [Names], which features figures of women whose names we have heard but have not paid attention to them. Ostap Slyvynsky: For the first time, I decided to...
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.
