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,...
UJE Board Member Prof. Paul Robert Magocsci spoke at the new Ukrainian cultural center in Tel Aviv, Israel on 9 June 2022 on the topic "Ukrainians and Jews: a historical perspective against the backdrop of...
Russia began its war against Ukraine under the slogans of denazification and accusing Ukrainians of Nazism. This is despite the fact that Jewish leaders in Ukraine, such as Josef Zissels and Chief Rabbi of Ukraine...
Prof. Paul Robert Magocsi's talk "Jews and Ukrainians: A Millennium of Co-Existence, as seen through the war" took place at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem on 9 June 2022. During the presentation, Prof. Magocsi focused...
The teenager Sashko Slobodianyk, together with his parents, saved the lives of David and Dora Gershengorn. The Ukrainian family hid some homeless and starving ghetto prisoners in their house in Bershad. Eighty years later, the...
When traveling to Ukraine, among the essentials I pack is a small, rolled-up image my 'tato' (father) sketched in 1950 that he called 'memories of Batkivshchyna' or 'homeland.' The picture of a quaint village was...
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.
