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...
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....
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...
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...
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...
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...
Ukrainian historian Vladyslav Hrynevych, Sr., discusses modern practices of commemorating WWII victims and heroes. Ukraine is rapidly rethinking its memorial space and commemorative practices, rejecting many elements of the Soviet narrative. At the same time,...
Former Ukrainian Defense Minister Oleksii Reznikov gave an exclusive interview to UJE, discussing the need for a close partnership between Ukraine, Israel, and the United States to confront the Russia-Iran axis of evil, sharing his...
Dr. Yehor Vradii, deputy director of the Jewish Memory and Holocaust in Ukraine Museum in Dnipro and deputy director of Tkuma: Ukrainian Institute for Holocaust Studies, discusses how Ukrainians preserve the memory of Jewish tragedies....
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...
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.
