On 24 February 2022, Russia launched a full-scale invasion of Ukraine. In reality, Russia's war against Ukraine is centuries long, with its most recent reiteration starting in 2014 with its illegal annexation of Crimea. Over...
I spoke recently with Iryna Mudra, the second highest government official of Jewish background in Ukraine (after President Volodymyr Zelensky). As Deputy Head of the President's Office for Legal Affairs, her responsibilities include both domestic...
Ukrainian sociologist Mykola Homanyuk and German historian and sociologist Mischa Gabowitsch discuss their recently published book, Monuments and Territory: War Memorials in Russian-Occupied Ukraine. They examine the strategies behind Russia's commemorative policies in the Ukrainian...
Editor’s note: On 5 October 2025, Vitaly Portnikov, the renowned Ukrainian journalist and analyst, and Maria Hurska, creator and head of the Ukrainian TV channel Slawa in Warsaw, participated in a widely acclaimed discussion at...
Reflecting on his experience teaching The Crime of Genocide in the History of Ukraine, an elective course at the University of Michigan, Yurii Kaparulin describes the structure of the course and how it incorporates the...
On the fourth Saturday of every November, Ukrainians globally commemorate the Holodomor, an artificial famine instigated by Stalin, that resulted in the starvation of millions of Ukrainians in 1932–33. The Holodomor became one of the...
UJE Board Member Paul Robert Magocsi spoke at Sweden’s Gothenburg University on 25 September, where he offered his reflections on the Russian-Ukrainian war and Ukraine’s multi-ethnic community. Below is a video of the wide-ranging conversation...
UJE Board Member Paul Robert Magocsi appeared at the Gothenburg Book Fair on 25 September in conversation with Swedish journalist Sharon Jåma to discuss Ukrainian-Jewish relations and the book Jews and Ukrainians: A Millennium of...
On 5 October 2025 at the Lviv BookForum, a discussion between Vitaly Portnikov, the renowned Ukrainian journalist and analyst, and Maria Hurska, the creator and head of the Ukrainian TV channel "Slawa" in Warsaw, took...
UJE Board Member Paul Robert Magocsi spoke about Ukraine, statehood, and interethnic relations at France’s famed INALCO (Institut national des langues et civilisations orientales) as part of its «Bibliothèque ukrainienne» series on 16–17 September 2025....
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.
