Born Bronya Kutzenok into a Hasidic family in the small Ukrainian village of Starovitsky, Peli was exposed to the printed word at a very early age and became a pioneer in Jewish publishing and bookselling....
Abstract This review article discusses the recently published Ukrainian-language edition of the book A Concise History of the Holocaust by the Canadian historian Doris L. Bergen. What are the methodological advantages of this book? To...
The book's strength lies in its accounts, devoid of excessive simplification, of events and the life of Jews and other victims of the Nazi regime. A conversation with Tetiana Borodina, the scholarly co-editor of this...
Аbstract: This article is devoted to the history of the Holocaust in Southern Ukraine. During the interwar period a community of Jewish farmers, who lived in a rural area within the Jewish national districts, was...
Paul Robert Magocsi, Professor at the University of Toronto and a board member of the Ukrainian Jewish Encounter (UJE), returned to Ukraine after a short break with a public lecture entitled "Why a multinational approach...
A video recording of the international colloquium on the 80th anniversary of the Babyn Yar tragedy entitled "The Holocaust in Ukraine: Historiographic Trends, Commemoration, and the Conceptualization of the Crime" has been produced. The conference...
[Editor's note: The theme of the 28th International BookForum, which took place in Lviv on 15–19 September 2021, was "The Game of Growing Up." The Canadian charitable non-profit organization Ukrainian Jewish Encounter held several important...
The 80th anniversary of the Babyn Yar tragedy served as a highly symbolic pretext for the new Israeli president's visit to Ukraine. The moral duty to remember the largest mass shooting in the history of...
Eighty years ago, at Babyn Yar in Kyiv ('yar' means ravine), the Nazis murdered over 33,000 Jews. Overall, around 100,000 people — Jews, Ukrainians, Roma, and others — were murdered at the site in 1941....
Why did the Holocaust topic surface at the earliest stage of the establishment of relations between Israel and Ukraine, and how did the fiftieth anniversary of the Babyn Yar tragedy become the first test of...
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.
