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    "2000 meters to Andriivka": Stunning screening in Israel

    Posted On: September 8th, 2026
    Posted In: Ukrainian statehood and identity, Culture, Diverse Voices, Cinema

    The screening of a recent film by director Mstyslav Chernov, 2000 Meters to Andriivka, was organized on 31 August 2026 by the Embassy of Ukraine in Israel and the "Created in Ukraine" initiative. The screening...

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    Books published with UJE's support presented to academic and museum institutions in Poland

    Posted On: September 7th, 2026
    Posted In: Ukrainian statehood and identity, Diverse Voices, Outreach

    During his recent working visit to Poland, Ihor Kryvosheia, a professor in the Department of World History and Teaching Methods at Pavlo Tychyna Uman State Pedagogical University and head of the university's Polish Cultural and...

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    Genocide Museum in Odesa: A shared space of memory for Ukrainians and Jews

    Posted On: August 13th, 2026
    Posted In: Ukrainian statehood and identity, The Holocaust in Ukraine, History, Diverse Voices, Holodomor

    Pavlo Kozlenko outlines the initial milestones of Odesa's new Genocide Museum, an institution that has emerged as a vital platform for fostering mutual understanding among citizens of diverse nationalities amid Ukraine's ongoing resistance against Russian...

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    'Mariupol Drama' in Israel: What comes from the heart, goes to the heart

    Posted On: July 20th, 2026
    Posted In: Ukrainian statehood and identity, Diverse Voices

    The Israeli tour of the Mariupol Drama Theater actors demonstrates how wartime tragedies unite Ukraine and Israel, fostering mutual empathy for each other's suffering. The Donetsk Regional Academic Drama Theater left the city of Mariupol,...

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    History that has failed us

    Posted On: June 1st, 2026
    Posted In: Sponsored Projects, Ukraina Moderna, Diverse Voices, Other Programs

    Vladyslava Moskalets One of the most famous researchers I would have liked to talk to during the war is the French historian Marc Bloch, a founding member of the Annales School and someone who knew...

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    Centenary of Symon Petliura's assassination: A Ukrainian-Jewish look at the past and the future

    Posted On: May 25th, 2026
    Posted In: Jews on Ukrainian Lands, Ukrainian- Jewish Relations History, Ukrainian statehood and identity, History

    One hundred years ago, on 25 May 1926, Symon Petliura, the leader of the Ukrainian Directory in exile, was shot dead on a street in Paris by Sholem Schwarzbard, a Jewish poet, anarchist, and watchmaker....

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    Why Christian, Muslim, and Jewish chaplains of the Ukrainian Army met in a synagogue

    Posted On: May 7th, 2026
    Posted In: Jews on Ukrainian Lands, Ukrainian statehood and identity, Culture, History, Diverse Voices, Ethnography

    In April 2026, the Central Synagogue of Ukraine (Kyiv Brodsky Synagogue) welcomed unusual guests — a large group of Christian and Muslim priests. David Milman, a Jewish chaplain of Ukraine's Armed Forces, welcomed his fellow...

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    "Our work in the field of memory studies must be aimed at ourselves, not Russia" — Oksana Dovhopolova

    Posted On: May 4th, 2026
    Posted In: Sponsored Projects, Ukrainian statehood and identity, Ukraina Moderna, Culture, Other Programs, Diverse Voices, Ethnography

    Our conversation with the Odesa philosopher and expert in the field of memory research focuses on the conflict that broke out recently in Odesa around the question of (not) dismantling monuments to Pushkin, Babel, and...

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    Study: Ukrainians are more willing to accept Jews than Poles, Americans, or Canadians

    Posted On: April 27th, 2026
    Posted In: Jews on Ukrainian Lands, Ukrainian statehood and identity, History, Diverse Voices

    In April 2026, Dr. Volodymyr Paniotto published the results of an interesting opinion survey conducted by the Kyiv International Institute of Sociology (KIIS), which he heads. At the end of 2025, KIIS explored attitudes toward...

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    Glorious anniversary uniting Israel and Ukraine

    Posted On: April 7th, 2026
    Posted In: Did You Know?, Ukrainian statehood and identity, Culture, Diverse Voices, Language

    Wolf Moskovich, professor emeritus at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, the only foreign member of Ukraine's National Academy of Sciences living in Israel, the initiator and editor-in-chief of the unique 27-volume academic series Jews and...

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      • Symposia
        • Israel’s Experience of Nation-Building: Lessons for Ukraine
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      • Outreach
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      • Dukh i Litera Digital Library
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    Ukrainian Jewish Encounter Timeline wins international recognition while countering Russian propaganda

    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.

    Explore the UJE Timeline

    As Ukraine defends its very existence against Russia, the Ukrainian Jewish Encounter Timeline serves to counter the malicious and false narratives about Ukraine and its history. The Timeline demonstrates that Ukraine is home to diverse peoples and, for centuries, one of the world’s oldest and largest Jewish communities.

    Since its launch in September 2022, the UJE Timeline has earned international recognition by winning eight international awards:

    Web Excellence Awards:

    • Excellence — Website Non-profit (2023)

    w3 Awards:

    • Silver — Website Non-profit (2023)
    • Silver — Website Best Structure and Navigation (2023)
    • Silver— Website Best Visual Appeal and Aesthetics (2023)

    Anthem Awards:

    • Bronze — Website Digital and Innovative Experiences (2024)

    Communicator Awards:

    • Gold — Website Non-Profit (2024)
    • Silver — Website Structure and Navigation (2024)
    • Silver — Website Visual Appeal and Aesthetics (2024).

     

    Encounter: The Ukrainian-Jewish Literary Prize  

    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."

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    Download the complete 168-page book

    A Journey Through the Ukrainian-Jewish Encounter

    FROM ANTIQUITY TO 1914

    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.

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