How a Jewish boy from a Ukrainian town lost in the forests and swamps of the Chernihiv region became a friend of the US president and played a key role in the recognition of the...
Serhiy Hirik, lecturer in Jewish studies at the Kyiv-Mohyla Academy, discusses the history and marginalization of the word zhyd. Etymology of zhyd Yelyzaveta Tsarehradska: I have recently overheard a conversation in which Jews were constantly...
The Ukrainian Institute of National Memory recommends celebrating a number of famous people this year. Among them is Professor Solomon Frankfurt, an outstanding agrobiologist and economist. He was a statesman during the Ukrainian Revolution and...
Attending the solemn ceremony on 3 December 2025 were members of the Ukrainian government delegation, led by Deputy Prime Minister of Ukraine Taras Kachka, as well as representatives of the Jerusalem City Council, the Israeli...
Art Barbalat of New Books Network interviews Paul Robert Magocsi about the book Jews and Ukrainians: A Millennium of Co-Existence There is much that ordinary Ukrainians do not know about Jews and that ordinary Jews...
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...
Professor Petro Kraliuk of the Ostroh Academy discusses Hryhorii Skovoroda's connections with Jews and Jewish culture. Skovoroda and Jewry Yelyzaveta Tsarehradska: Today, our guest in the studio is Professor Petro Kraliuk, сhairman of the Academic...
"The General Assembly of Zionists of Kharkiv sends its warmest greetings to the Provincial Ukrainian Congress. Jews lost their independent state many centuries before Ukrainians did. Both Ukrainians and Zionists believe in reviving their respective...
An insightful discussion on intercultural relations titled "Shared Histories: Ukrainian-Jewish and Danish-Jewish Relations Through Time" occurred on 23 October at Copenhagen's Ukraine House in Denmark. Nataliia Popovych, the institution's chairperson, moderated the event. The event...
The panel discussion that took place at the Lviv BookForum on 6 October was devoted to the discussion of the nature of genocides in the history of mankind — from biblical times, the tragedy 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.
