Hebrew-language video reportage by Israel Prize laureate journalist Jacob Ahimeir, who was a guest at the Limmud FSU conference in Lviv, Ukraine in November 2014, juxtaposed the current war in eastern Ukraine with the placid...
Robert Paul Magocsi is a renowned historian and a researcher of the history of Ukraine. He brings a particular point of view in his attention to the multi-nationalism of Ukrainian lands. Professor Magocsi described for...
The candidacy of [Ukrainian Greek Catholic, ed.] Metropolitan Alexander Sheptytsky has been repeatedly discussed by the Yad Vashem commission but was dismissed each time because the Metropolitan welcomed the entry of the Nazi army in...
KIEV – Ukrainian Jews and political leaders have united in endeavoring to rehabilitate a controversial Holocaust-era cleric whose legacy has been fiercely debated for decades.
Babyn Yar is a ravine on the outskirts of Kyiv that has become a symbol of the Holocaust. There more than 100 thousand perished during the Nazi occupation, including 40,000 Jews. Babyn Yar was first...
Listen to the latest installment of “Ukrainian Jewish Heritage” by Vancouver, Canada's Nash Holos Ukrainian Roots Radio, a UJE partner. This segment features Lidia Kotliarevska, who rescued Jews during the Nazi occupation of Dnipropetrovsk. The...
Listen to the latest installment of “Ukrainian Jewish Heritage” by Vancouver, Canada's Nash Holos Ukrainian Roots Radio, a UJE partner. This segment discusses the Tkuma Institue for Holocaust Studies in Dnipropetrovsk, Ukraine. The program, as...
Belz is a small city in the Lviv province of Western Ukraine near the border with Poland. The Ashkenazi Jewish community in Belz was established in the 14th century. The Ashkenazi are a Jewish ethnic...
Rohatyn is a city located on the Hnyla Lypa River in the Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast, in western Ukraine. It is the administrative center of the Rohatyn Region. It was first mentioned in historical documents in 1184...
Zolochiv, a town located 60 kilometers east of Lviv, was at one time a thriving Polish-Jewish-Ukrainian town. Then, in just three years, its Jewish population perished in the Holocaust. The Jewish presence in Zolochiv dates...
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.
