With English CCs In Episode 4 of our video blog, we discuss the organization of public events in Ukraine centered on the outstanding UJE-supported book Jews and Ukrainians: A Millennium of Co-Existence. Namely, about our...
(With English CCs) Episode 2 of this video blog highlighted the exhibition "A Journey Through the Ukrainian-Jewish Encounter: From Antiquity to 1939", which was displayed in Kyiv in late May 2020. Episode 3 discusses UJE’s...
There are very few extant documents that illustrate the brief period of the coexistence between the fledgling Ukrainian state and independent Jewish communities in 1917–1920. Military actions, pogroms, and the displacement of millions of people...
In the second episode of our video blog, we will talk about the exhibition "A Journey Through the Ukrainian-Jewish Encounter: From Antiquity to 1939” which was displayed at the end of May 2020, in partnership...
The Ukrainian Jewish Encounter is beginning a video blog about its activities in Ukraine and Ukrainian-Jewish relations. In the first episode, we talk about this Canadian non-profit organization and its activities in Ukraine in 2016-2019....
The lands of modern Ukraine have historically been home to various Hasidic movements as well as a significant share of “Lithuanian” Judaism, a non-Hasidic branch with an emphasis on Talmudic scholarship. This mosaic has practically...
Today our guest on Encounters is Taras Liutyi, the Ukrainian philosopher, writer, and professor in the Faculty of Philosophy and Religious Studies at the National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy. We will be talking about the...
This is Encounters, a program dedicated to Ukrainian-Jewish relations. Today we are talking about diversity as a resource. This topic was inspired by a Facebook posting authored by Iryna Solovey, the co-founder of Garage Gang....
Recently I decided to visit a unique site in the Holy Land for the first time in my life: the grave of the biblical Yosef (Joseph). The Book of Genesis recounts how Joseph, the son...
How did the stereotype of the “keys to the church” arise? Was Taras Shevchenko an antisemite? Who was the first Jewish voice in Ukrainian literature? And why did Jews in the shtetls keep Ukrainian theaters...
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.
