The annual international academic conference "Special Features of Shaping Academic Discourse on the Holocaust in European Countries" was held at the Institute for World History of Ukraine's National Academy of Sciences in Kyiv. Ukrainian scholars...
Ukrainian sociologist Mykola Homanyuk and German historian and sociologist Mischa Gabowitsch discuss their recently published book, Monuments and Territory: War Memorials in Russian-Occupied Ukraine. They examine the strategies behind Russia's commemorative policies in the Ukrainian...
Part 2 reviews the main discoveries and conclusions that can be drawn from the series of publications on the history of the Holocaust in western Volynian cities and small towns entitled Life and Death of...
The series of semi-academic publications entitled The Life and Death of Jewish Communities, issued in 2023, examines the Holocaust as it unfolded in various cities and towns of Ukraine. The following article seeks to interpret...
[Editor’s note: Below is an interview with Yuriy Skira, winner of Encounter: The Ukrainian-Jewish Literary Prize in 2024. The long list for the 2025 prize was announced last week. This year’s winner will be named...
[Editor’s note: This program originally aired on 30 January 2025 in observance of Holocaust Remembrance Day.] Roza Tapanova, director of the Babyn Yar National Historical and Memorial Reserve, discusses a new exhibition. On the exhibition...
Our conversation with the Ukrainian historian Olga Radchenko centers on her latest Ukrainian-language book, Jewish Refugees in Ukraine, 1939–1941. We discuss the number of Jewish refugees, where they hailed from, and how many of them...
Our conversation with the Israeli historian Semion Goldin is focused on how the Russo-Ukrainian War has affected Jewish Studies and Holocaust Studies, on the whole, in Ukraine and Russia. We also discussed the connection between...
On 21 January 2025, Paul Robert Magocsi, Chair of Ukrainian Studies at the University of Toronto and a Board Member of Ukrainian Jewish Encounter (UJE), spoke on the topic "Academic and school history of Ukraine:...
Anton Drobovych, head of the Ukrainian Institute of National Memory, discusses how the memory of Babyn Yar is being shaped in Ukraine. Babyn Yar as a collective tragedy Yelyzaveta Tsarehradska: On 29 September, we commemorate...
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.
