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...
Carol of the Bells is one of the world's most recognized and beloved Christmas melodies. Yet many people still don't know the song originated in Ukraine. First performed in the United States in Carnegie Hall...
In November–December 2004, as an Israeli journalist, I was in Kyiv on the eve of the Ukrainian presidential elections. I found myself in the epicenter of the Orange Revolution, which was unfolding before my eyes...
[Editor's note: Earlier this year, a lively debate took place in Ukrainian media about the Holocaust and memory in the context of Russia's criminal war against Ukraine. On 18-19 November, we offer two points of...
[Editor's note: Earlier this year, a debate took place in Ukrainian media about the Holocaust and memory in the context of Russia's criminal war against Ukraine. On 18-19 November, we offer two points of view...
Two friends, graduates of a religious Jewish school in Kyiv, defend Ukraine, helping repel Russia's aggression. They also keep Israel on their minds and talk about the future of Ukrainian-Jewish relations after the war. Igor...
The wars in Ukraine and Israel last year attracted considerable attention from the international community. With both wars still unresolved, our group discussed the political and diplomatic implications of the wars, the future of each...
The following article recapitulates the proceedings of the seminar "Jewish Responses to the Holocaust: Dispossession, Restitution, and Reconstructing the Home" held on 8–12 January 2024 at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C....
Marina Sorina, a native of Kharkiv, is a professional guide in Verona, a translator, and an active participant in Italian political life. In an exclusive interview, she talks about having a Ukrainian-Jewish identity after living...
The International Council of Museums (ICOM), headquartered in Paris, is the most prestigious global organization of museums and museum professionals. In mid-June 2024, President of ICOM Ukraine Anastasiia Cherednychenko spoke at the annual meeting of...
The West long accepted the Soviet narrative that the country was indistinct. Our understanding of its culture and people is still incomplete.Ukraine has never received as much attention as it does today. A few decades...
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.
