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...
We continue our series of articles dedicated to the Ukrainian Righteous Among the Nations. This time, we will look at the Ivano-Frankivsk region. For years, the Soviet authorities did everything to create the image of...
As recent events have shown, after eight years of deceptive complacency, neither Ukraine nor the world is sleeping anymore. Since mid-February, I had nightmares every night that groups of planes were bombing Kyiv. In these...
Leonid Finberg is a sociologist, public figure, editor-in-chief of Ukraine's "Dukh i Litera" publishing house, director of the Center for Researching the History and Culture of Eastern European Jewry of the National Academy of Sciences...
On 9 June 2022, UJE Board Member Prof. Paul Robert Magocsi gave a talk, "Jews and Ukrainians: A Millennium of Co-Existence, as seen through the war," at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. The professor's presentation...
Oleksandr Oleksiiovych Slobodianyk, Righteous Among the Nations, died on 2 July 2022 at the age of 94 in the town of Lubny, Poltava oblast. He suffered a nervous breakdown after the news about the war,...
Tel Aviv's famed Sipur Pashut — Independent Bookstore and Ukrainian Jewish Encounter (UJE) co-sponsored an event about the book "Jews and Ukrainians: A Millennium of Co-Existence" and Russia's unprovoked war against Ukraine on June 8,...
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.
