On 25 April [2022] the New York Times, a newspaper with more than nine million subscribers, published on its editorial page an essay, "Russian artists aren't the problem," by Kevin M.F. Platt, a professor in...
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...
Abstract: This essay raises the issue of historians' responsibility to the communities that they study. While some purported version of history has been central to the Kremlin's justifications for Russia's aggression against Ukraine, the region's...
How is our identity changing during the full-scale war with Russia, and how is this identity changing in Ukraine's ethnic communities? Chernivtsi recently hosted the annual festival Meridian Czernowitz, whose co-founder and constant guest is...
Professor Wolf Moskovich, UJE Board Member and well-known linguist, recalls his young years spent in the special Jewish environment of Chernivtsi and the role the city played in his future career. Childhood in a religious...
Ukrainian Statehood Day was ushered in on 28 July 2021. What does this date signify? Is it needed in the Ukrainian calendar? What are the attributes of this statehood? What is the current developmental level...
In the past, Israeli politicians sought photo ops at the Wailing Wall. Today, the wisest visionary leaders are starting to have their photos taken near the "wall of tears" in Bucha and Irpin. The photo...
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...
Over the course of one week, I witnessed two different Israels where Ukraine is concerned. The first one sizzled on a huge square in Tel Aviv, where thousands of friends of Ukraine gathered to mark...
The texts presented in this book are Josef Zissels’ understanding of the different vectors of his activities in recent years. Zissels is a social activist, a member of the Ukrainian Helsinki Group and the "First...
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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.
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.
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.
