How Germany contributes to preserving Ukraine's Jewish heritage "I am impressed by the level of involvement of German specialists in our project to preserve Ukraine's Jewish heritage," said Yevhen Kotlyar, a professor at the Kharkiv...
[Editor’s note: Shavout in 2025 begins in the Diaspora at sundown on Sunday, 1 June 2025 and ends at nightfall on Tuesday, 3 June 2025.] In this episode of the Encounters program, we will discuss...
Binyamin Minich, rabbi of the Daniel congregation in Tel Aviv, speaks on Hromadske Radio, explaining how Pesach is celebrated in Ukraine and worldwide. [Editor’s note: This podcast originally appeared on 29 April 2024.] About Pesach...
Yulia Robchynska, a Jewish education manager at Project Kesher, talks about Hanukkah. [Editor’s note: This interview originally aired in 2023.] What is Hanukkah for your family? Yulia Robchynska: In my family, this holiday was not...
Our guest is Yuri (Amir) Radchenko, Ph.D. in History, co-founder of the Center for Interethnic Relations Research in Eastern Europe, invited lecturer at the International Interdisciplinary Judaica Certification Program, and acting rabbi in Masoret, a...
[Editor’s note: This interview originally appeared on 25 September 2023. Yom Kippur in 2024 begins at sundown on Friday, 11 October 2024 and ends at nightfall on Saturday, 12 October 2024.] Our guest is Rebbetzin...
The International Council of Museums (ICOM), headquartered in Paris, is the most prestigious global organization of museums and museum professionals. In mid-June 2024, President of ICOM Ukraine Anastasiia Cherednychenko spoke at the annual meeting of...
Fact: you can't read Russian folktales to Jewish children as they don't teach what is needed. I read "Ryaba the Hen" to my son, which left me in a mental shock. The plot is as...
[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...
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.
