Our guest is Abraham Kefeli, a hazzan and teacher of computer music, music theory, piano, arrangement, and composition. He is a Karaite who was born in Simferopol and now lives in Israel. On 9 August,...
The role of Ukrainian nationalists in the Holocaust is a question that figures prominently in Russian propaganda. The following interview with the German historian Kai Struve, a specialist in anti-Jewish violence in Ukraine, focuses on...
Rokhl Auerbakh is one of those women who had a tremendous impact on the history of the 20th century. She was born into the Jewish family of Khanin Auerbakh and his wife Mania (née Kimelman)...
[Abstract: In one of his interviews, Vladimir Putin declared that one and a half million Jews were killed during the Second World War, "first and foremost, at the hands of Banderites." This thesis, disseminated initially...
UJE Board Member Paul Robert Magocsi appeared at John Cabot University in Rome on 4 June 2024 at an event presented by the university’s president Franco Pavoncello, and moderated by Federigo Argentieri, Director of the...
Art critic Bohdana Pinchevska talks about secular Jewish art of Eastern Galicia in 1900–1939. Bohdana Pinchevska's book on secular Jewish art Yelyzaveta Tsarehradska: Today, we will talk about your book. This book, I'm sure, is...
The International Council of Museums (ICOM), headquartered in Paris, is the most prestigious global organization of museums and museum professionals. In mid-June 2024, President of ICOM Ukraine Anastasiia Cherednychenko spoke at the annual meeting of...
Paul Robert Magocsi, Board Member of the Ukrainian Jewish Encounter, a Canadian charitable organization, speaks with Kontakt Ukrainian TV about Babyn Yar: History and Memory, a new publication that explores various aspects of this ravine,...
[Abstract: This research article by the Ukrainian historian Daniil Sytnyk examines the particularities of the formation and activity of the auxiliary police in Nazi-occupied Ukraine. The author highlights the specifics of the creation of police...
Paul Robert Magocsi, Board Member of the Ukrainian Jewish Encounter and Chair of Ukrainian Studies at the University of Toronto, appeared at the Stati Generali dell’Ucrainistica Italiana conference that took place on 30 May-1 June...
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.
