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...
Ottawa — September 25, 2024 University of Ottawa On September 25th, 2024, the University of Ottawa, in conjunction with the Ukrainian-Canadian Congress and UJE, brought together politicians, community leaders, and students to a presentation by...
Josef Zissels, a dissident of Jewish origin, is the co-president of Ukraine's Association of Jewish Organizations and Communities (VAAD) and executive vice-president of Ukraine's Congress of Ethnic Communities. He is an outstanding public figure who...
Ukrainian Jewish Encounter (UJE) is a long-standing sponsor of the Meridian Czernowitz International Poetry Festival in Chernivtsi, Ukraine, which took place on 6–8 September 2024. This year's program included discussions on the Ukrainian-Jewish literary dialogue,...
By Marharyta Ormotsadze Ukrainian Jewish Encounter reports on the extreme conditions in which the families of the Righteous Among the Nations are forced to survive in the capital of Ukraine One of the largest cities...
Kharkiv is the second largest city in Ukraine. In 2024, as it fights off Russian aggression, Kharkiv marks the 370th anniversary of a Ukrainian Cossack fortress, its inception point. Jews have been an important, influential,...
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.
