The exhibition "Doll Memories of a Jewish Town" has been mounted in the State Toy Museum in Kyiv and will be open until the summer. It has aroused great interest among Kyiv residents and received...
Binyamin Minich, rabbi of the Daniel congregation in Tel Aviv, speaks on Hromadske Radio, explaining how Pesach is celebrated in Ukraine and worldwide. [Editor’s note: This podcast originally appeared on 29 April 2024.] About Pesach...
"The General Assembly of Zionists of Kharkiv sends its warmest greetings to the Provincial Ukrainian Congress. Jews lost their independent state many centuries before Ukrainians did. Both Ukrainians and Zionists believe in reviving their respective...
Yelyzaveta Lytvynchuk, a member of the Advisory Council on Indigenous Peoples at the State Service of Ukraine for Ethnic Policy and Freedom of Conscience, speaks about the Karaites and their cultural heritage. Discovering Karaite background...
In this episode of the Encounters program, we discuss the life and professional activities of the outstanding book publisher Yakiv Orenstein. Why little is known about Yakiv Orenstein Yelyzaveta Tsarehradska: Our guest today is Professor...
The last wave of street renaming in Lviv, on which many hopes had been pinned, has also brought a number of disappointments, revealing that social trends change very slowly. On the one hand, the rejection...
The Encounters program has invited Tetiana Shyshkina, a PhD student at the International Center for Culture Studies at the Justus Liebich University of Giessen and a graduate of several programs at the Kyiv-Mohyla Academy, including...
Anton Drobovych, head of the Ukrainian Institute of National Memory, discusses how the memory of Babyn Yar is being shaped in Ukraine. Babyn Yar as a collective tragedy Yelyzaveta Tsarehradska: On 29 September, we commemorate...
A beautiful green square named after Golda Meir will appear on Borychiv Tik Street in Kyiv's Podil district — next to Andriyivsky Uzviz, one of the most famous tourist routes in the Ukrainian capital. Golda...
Our series of articles on the Ukrainian Righteous Among the Nations tells the stories of Jews rescued by Ukrainians. In contrast, this piece is about Israelis helping Ukrainians from the Righteous families during the ongoing...
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.
