Jewish political parties in Ukraine were partisan, ideological, fragmented, and ultimately crushed. But they left an indelible mark on Jewish history. This essay by the Ukrainian historian Serhiy Hirik originally appeared in the October/November 2017...
Today on the program Encounters the historian Artem Kharchenko talks about Jewish life in nineteenth-century Kharkiv, the Pale of Settlement, and the “Holocaust by Bullets.” Kharkiv is one of a handful of Ukrainian gubernial cities,...
Alti Rodal, co-director of the Ukrainian Jewish Encounter, spoke recently at San Francisco’s Jewish Community Library about “Hasidism on Ukrainian Lands: Social Aspects and Teachings.” In this engaging and thought-provoking presentation, given on November 19,...
Today on the program Encounters we are discussing Katerynoslav [Formerly also called Dnipropetrovsk, and today Dnipro—Ed.] and the fact that one in every three residents of this city was once Jewish. Today only a few...
One of the world’s most famous historians of the Holocaust (he himself is a survivor) and the author of “Together and Apart in Brzezany: Poles, Jews and Ukrainians, 1919-1945”, Shimon Redlich remembers the legacy of...
The historian Volodymyr Liubchenko talks about the difficult relationship between Jews and the Cossack Sich in the eighteenth century, the haidamaka rebels, and myths around this period. Andriy Kobalia: Good day. This is the program...
Ihor Shchupak, the director of the Tkuma Ukrainian Institute for Holocaust Studies, is our guest on the program Encounters. Iryna Slavinska: You are listening to Hromadske Radio with Iryna Slavinska and the program Encounters. Today...
The city of Dubno is located in the Rivne Oblast, or province, in western Ukraine. It sits on the banks of the Ikva River. The current population is around 38,000. Dubno was first mentioned in...
The historian Oley Bashan discusses repressions against Ukrainians and Jews in the second half of the 1940s and the early 1950s. Andrei Kobalia: How did Ukrainian society perceive Jews in the 1930s and 1940s, during...
The historian Maksym Gon talks about the Jewish community against the background of the [post-First World War] Ukrainian-Polish confrontation, Ukrainian-Jewish cooperation during elections in Poland, and the Jews of Bukovyna and Transcarpathia in the interwar...
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.
