How a Jewish boy from a Ukrainian town lost in the forests and swamps of the Chernihiv region became a friend of the US president and played a key role in the recognition of the...
The Ukrainian Institute of National Memory recommends celebrating a number of famous people this year. Among them is Professor Solomon Frankfurt, an outstanding agrobiologist and economist. He was a statesman during the Ukrainian Revolution and...
How Germany contributes to preserving Ukraine's Jewish heritage "I am impressed by the level of involvement of German specialists in our project to preserve Ukraine's Jewish heritage," said Yevhen Kotlyar, a professor at the Kharkiv...
[Editor’s note: This interview with Khrystyna Semeryn was conducted earlier this year by Ukraine’s public radio, Hromadske Radio. The author was named winner of Encounter: The Ukrainian-Jewish Literary Prize in October 2025.] Jewish culture...
Our guest in the studio is Michal Stamova, who holds a Master's degree in Jewish Studies and consults Project Kesher Ukraine on Jewish education. An expert in the history, culture, and traditions of the Jewish...
Physical heritage and family history in Jewish cemeteries by Marla Raucher Osborn, Gesher Galicia Jewish Heritage Associate The relationship between Jewish genealogy research and Jewish physical heritage is not widely appreciated, even in the lands...
Valentyn Bushansky, PhD in political science and junior sergeant of the 244th battalion in the 112th Territorial Defense Brigade of Ukraine, discusses the works of Isaac Babel and his difficult relationship with Ukraine. He was...
Art Barbalat of New Books Network interviews Paul Robert Magocsi about the book Jews and Ukrainians: A Millennium of Co-Existence There is much that ordinary Ukrainians do not know about Jews and that ordinary Jews...
Our conversation with the Ukrainian historian Olga Radchenko centers on her latest Ukrainian-language book, Jewish Refugees in Ukraine, 1939–1941. We discuss the number of Jewish refugees, where they hailed from, and how many of them...
Professor Petro Kraliuk of the Ostroh Academy discusses Hryhorii Skovoroda's connections with Jews and Jewish culture. Skovoroda and Jewry Yelyzaveta Tsarehradska: Today, our guest in the studio is Professor Petro Kraliuk, сhairman of the Academic...
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.
