The Atlantic Council’s Eurasia Center hosted an event on 12 June 2024 to launch the book Battleground Ukraine: From Independence to the War with Russia with author Adrian Karatnycky, in conversation with The Atlantic's David...
[Author's note: This article was written in the spring of 2014, on the heels of Ukraine's Maidan victory and Russia's annexation of Crimea. The text in Russian was published in the print version in the Kyiv...
During our conversation with the Russian historian Tatiana Tairova-Yakovleva, we discussed the following questions: Did Russian historians take part in forming the ideologemes of the Putin regime? What position did they adopt after 24 February...
The following article about Ukrainian forced laborers (male and female) in Nazi Germany during the Second World War focuses on their recruitment and labor exploitation, their return home, and Soviet filtration measures. The compensation payments...
The conversation with the Ukrainian-Canadian historian Oleksandr Melnyk is about his recently published monograph, World War II As an Identity Project. He finished inputting corrections to it in the Kherson oblast, occupied by Russian troops...
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...
On 22 January, Ukrainians will traditionally celebrate Unity Day, marking 105 years since the proclamation of the Unification Act of the Ukrainian People's Republic (UNR) and the West Ukrainian People's Republic (ZUNR). This historic event,...
The following interview with the historian Serhii Plokhy focuses on his latest book, The Russo-Ukrainian War: The Return of History, in which he reflects on the causes of the current war, its possible consequences for...
Our conversation with the Italian historian Andrea Graziosi is focused on the Russo-Ukrainian War and its historical and political contexts. What are the main historical origins of this war? Can the policies of the Russian...
By Samantha Shokin My mother’s family immigrated to Brooklyn from Kyiv in the late 1970s, about a decade before I was born. Growing up, I had identified, like everyone else in our immigrant community, as...
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.
