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...
Since the start of Russia’s full-scale war on Ukraine, the world has discovered the unity of Ukrainians of all backgrounds in protecting their statehood. However, in the past, Ukraine, a multilingual and multicultural state, has...
Paul Robert Magocsi, Membre du conseil, Ukrainian Jewish Encounter, est un grand spécialiste de l’histoire d’Ukraine et des composantes sociales et linguistiques de la société ukrainienne. Professeur à l’Université de Toronto, il vient de publier...
Lors de la conversation de Paul Robert Magocsi avec Philippe de Lara le premier va aborder des questions de développement de l’Ukraine comme une formation étatique dans le contexte historique, son identité nationale et les...
Paul Robert Magocsi: Talks in English: What is Ukraine?, British Council Paris, 20 April 2023 Talks in English: What is Ukraine? Is Ukraine an artificial state that came into being after the collapse of the...
One year after Russia invaded, a modern Ukraine has emerged with ideals that are liberal, democratic and inclusive. By Vladislav Davidzon So-called denazification and Volodymyr Zelensky The Russian invasion that commenced on February 24, 2022,...
ABSTRACT. This interview with the Ukrainian Canadian historian Andriy Zayarnyuk features a frank discussion of the contradictory positions held by many Western historians and intellectuals, who, after 24 February 2022, are more inclined to accuse Ukraine...
Russia hasn’t 'liberated' Ukrainian Jews. It’s united them with other Ukrainians against their common enemy Michael Gold February 24, 2023 This story was originally published in the Forward. Click here to get the Forward's free...
On 25 April [2022] the New York Times, a newspaper with more than nine million subscribers, published on its editorial page an essay, "Russian artists aren't the problem," by Kevin M.F. Platt, a professor in...
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...
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.
