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    Chaim Radbil: How a Jewish socialist became a deputy of the Central Rada

    Posted On: February 16th, 2021
    Posted In: Jews on Ukrainian Lands, Hadashot, Ukrainian- Jewish Relations History, Sponsored Projects, History, Other Programs

    Chaim Radbil was a participant in the two Russian revolutions, a deputy of the Ukrainian Central Rada, counselor of the Vinnytsia Duma, lawyer, publisher, and journalist—an individual of whom his native city of Vinnytsia can...

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    The daughter of a “batiar”: Ukrainian woman recognized as Righteous Among the Nations in Israel

    Posted On: August 27th, 2020
    Posted In: Ukrainian- Jewish Relations History, The Holocaust in Ukraine, Ukrainians who saved Jews, History

    Why did her family save Jews during the Holocaust? What was the truth behind survival and the ordinariness of death during the occupation through the eyes of a child? I spoke about all this with...

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    A historian and compiler of a scholarly collection explains how the Jews joined the Ukrainian Revolution

    Posted On: January 15th, 2020
    Posted In: Hromadske Radio, Ukrainian- Jewish Relations History, Sponsored Projects, History, Audio/Visual Media

    The historian Serhiy Hirik discusses a collection of articles entitled The Jews of Ukraine: Revolution and Post-Revolutionary Modernization. Serhiy Hirik: This book is based on papers that were presented at the conference “The Jews of...

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    Myroslav Shkandrij: “There are problems in Ukraine that are challenging historians, writers, and civil society”

    Posted On: December 18th, 2019
    Posted In: Hadashot, Sponsored Projects, Ukrainian- Jewish Relations History, History, Other Programs, Diverse Voices

    How did the stereotype of the “keys to the church” arise? Was Taras Shevchenko an antisemite? Who was the first Jewish voice in Ukrainian literature? And why did Jews in the shtetls keep Ukrainian theaters...

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    Presentation of Grzegorz Gauden’s Book “Lviv: the End of Illusions”

    Posted On: December 11th, 2019
    Posted In: UJE Initiatives, Book Fairs/Festivals, Literature, Ukrainian- Jewish Relations History, Culture, History, Outreach

    Grzegorz Gauden, Lviv: the End of Illusions, Lviv, 19 September 2019, (In Ukrainian and Polish). Ukrainian Jewish Encounter (UJE) is a Canadian philanthropic organization that has been working since 2008 to strengthen relations between our...

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    When the word kills or saves

    Posted On: December 5th, 2019
    Posted In: Ukrainian- Jewish Relations History, Sponsored Projects, The Holocaust in Ukraine, History, Other Programs, Holodomor, Israeli Friends of Ukraine

    The international seminar “When the Word Kills or Saves: Church Leaders, Intellectual Authorities, and the Press during the Holocaust and the Holodomor” was held in the Israeli city of Acre in November 2019. For the...

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    Magocsi and Petrovsky-Shtern on Jews and Ukrainians

    Posted On: October 30th, 2019
    Posted In: UJE Initiatives, Ukrainian- Jewish Relations History, Sponsored Projects, Publications, History, Symposia

    UJE board member Paul Robert Magocsi has traveled extensively over the last two years promoting Jews and Ukrainians: A Millennium of Co-Existence, the book he co-authored with Yohanan Petrovsky-Shtern. This spring, the two authors surprised...

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    Ivan Franko and his Jews: childhood, student years, politics

    Posted On: October 28th, 2019
    Posted In: Literature, Ukrainian- Jewish Relations History, Sponsored Projects, Culture, History, Other Programs, Istorychna Pravda

    I will try to define Franko’s attitude to Jews, which ranges from sincere Judeophilism to radical Judeophobia. This ambiguity in the interpretation of his views intensified after the fall of the communist regime in Ukraine....

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    Mykhailo Hrushevskyi: "After a nightmare" (the Beilis trial)

    Posted On: September 25th, 2019
    Posted In: Ukrainian- Jewish Relations History, History

    [Editor’s note: In 1913, Mykhailo Hrushevskyi wrote an article in Lviv’s Literaturno-naukovyi vistnyk in the aftermath of the trial of Mendel Beilis. Beilis, a Jew, had been accused of ritual murder in Kyiv and was...

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    Mykola Krasovsky: From the Beilis affair to the Intelligence Service of the Ukrainian National Republic

    Posted On: September 24th, 2019
    Posted In: Ukrainian- Jewish Relations History, Sponsored Projects, History, Other Programs, Istorychna Pravda

    [Editor’s note: In Kyiv in 1913 Mendel Beilis, a Jew, was accused of the ritual murder of Andrii Yushchynsky, a 13-year-old Ukrainian boy. Mykola Krasovsky, the lead investigator of the Kyiv Police Department, carried out...

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        • Israel’s Experience of Nation-Building: Lessons for Ukraine
      • Shared Historical Narrative
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        • A Journey through the Ukrainian-Jewish Encounter
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        • Book Fairs/Festivals
        • Limmud FSU
        • World Jewish Congress
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      • Dukh i Litera Digital Library
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        • eBook: "Jews and Ukrainians: A Millennium of Co-Existence"
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        • Finding Babel
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    Ukrainian Jewish Encounter Timeline wins international recognition while countering Russian propaganda

    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.

    Explore the UJE Timeline

    As Ukraine defends its very existence against Russia, the Ukrainian Jewish Encounter Timeline serves to counter the malicious and false narratives about Ukraine and its history. The Timeline demonstrates that Ukraine is home to diverse peoples and, for centuries, one of the world’s oldest and largest Jewish communities.

    Since its launch in September 2022, the UJE Timeline has earned international recognition by winning eight international awards:

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    Encounter: The Ukrainian-Jewish Literary Prize  

    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."

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