It is generally known that the city of Lviv is the birthplace of the Polish and Ukrainian scout movements: harcerstwo and Plast, respectively. However, to this day hardly anyone is aware that the capital of...
The historian Vladyslav Hrynevych spoke on the topic of Jews serving in the armies of the Romanovs, Habsburgs, and Bolsheviks. Historians often call the First World War the “Great War,” as it was the first...
The historian Shaul Stampfer discusses the religion of Khazaria The Khazar Khanate existed from the seventh to the tenth century. At the peak of its prosperity this nomadic Turkic state controlled the Northern Caucasus, the...
How Jews began leaving their ghettoes for the spacious streets of large European cities. The Age of Enlightenment began in Europe in the eighteenth century. In this new system of ethics, the supreme value was...
Ukrainian Jewish Heritage is a series that has been ongoing here at Nash Holos for several years now, sponsored by the Ukrainian Jewish Encounter of Toronto. The series … for me and also, I hope,...
In recent years, the National Bank of Ukraine has issued dozens of commemorative coins on various topics. Several coins are dedicated to prominent Jewish writers and scientists who lived and worked in Ukraine, as well...
Kyiv history specialist Mykhailo Kalnytsky reveals how the members of the Brodsky family earned a living and spent their earnings. Host Аndriy Kobalia Guest Мykhailo Kalnytsky The Jewish businessman Meir Brodsky-Schor had five sons: Abram,...
Ukrainians and Poles in those days [late nineteenth century—Ed.] lived “together and apart” at one and the same time. They were divided by ethnic, religious, social, and other barriers. There was also this: Ruthenian [Ukrainian]...
Numerous books and monographs have appeared in recent years describing the rich lives of the Jewish communities that inhabited the territory of contemporary Ukraine prior to World War II. Now Ukrainian historian Maxim Hon has...
Editor’s note: In 21-23 November 1918, an estimated 52-150 Jews were killed in a pogrom in Lviv during the Polish-Ukrainian War that followed World War One. In honor of the 100 year-anniversary of this horrific...
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.
