Yuri Haisynsky is one of the 346 Ukrainian MPs who voted to pass Ukraine's Act of Independence on 24 August 1991. That day, all five Jewish MPs supported the birth of a new state. A...
Tens of thousands of ethnic Ukrainians have come to Israel in various ways. Many were driven to the Jewish state by Russia's full-scale aggression against Ukraine. How legal and problematic is their status? How does...
UJE's office in Ukraine has been a co-organizer of "Socioeconomic and Political Development of Eastern European countries," an annual scholarly conference held at the Pavlo Tychyna Uman State Pedagogical University. Below is the text of...
In a wide-ranging and engaging discussion, the Center for Liberal Modernity (Zentrum Liberale Moderne), the Ukrainian Institute in Germany, and the Ukrainian Jewish Encounter (UJE) hosted a panel discussion on how Ukraine's history has shaped...
On 24 February 2022, Russia launched a full-scale invasion of Ukraine. This second stage of a war that began in 2014 came in the wake of earlier pronouncements by Russia's president Vladimir Putin, denying the...
For over three decades, Adrian Karatnycky has been one of the leading analysts of Ukraine in the United States. He has consulted civil society and politicians and written extensively about the country for various newspapers...
Dmytro Afanasiev, head of medical projects at the Kolo Charity Foundation, discusses the foundation's activities, such as equipping evacuation trains, supplying wound vacuum devices, and borrowing experience. Activities of the Kolo Charity Foundation Yelyzaveta Tsarehradska:...
Our conversation with the Israeli historian Semion Goldin is focused on how the Russo-Ukrainian War has affected Jewish Studies and Holocaust Studies, on the whole, in Ukraine and Russia. We also discussed the connection between...
The dramatic changes in US–Ukraine international policy from February to March 2025 have caused great concern among Ukraine's friends in Israel. Thus, the pro-Ukrainian Israeli group Prostir's initiative to hold a discussion was timely and...
In the following interview, the well-known German historian and former head of the German-Ukrainian Historical Commission discusses the Russo-Ukrainian War and the roots of Russian imperialism. He reflects on these very topics in one of...
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.
