The historian Shaul Stampfer discusses the religion of Khazaria The Khazar Khanate existed from the seventh to the tenth century. At the peak of its prosperity this nomadic Turkic state controlled the Northern Caucasus, the...
How Jews began leaving their ghettoes for the spacious streets of large European cities. The Age of Enlightenment began in Europe in the eighteenth century. In this new system of ethics, the supreme value was...
The history behind the creation of various projects to memorialize Babyn Yar is recounted by Josef Zissels, a former dissident and the current co-president of the Association of Jewish Organizations and Communities, the VAAD of...
Kyiv history specialist Mykhailo Kalnytsky reveals how the members of the Brodsky family earned a living and spent their earnings. Host Аndriy Kobalia Guest Мykhailo Kalnytsky The Jewish businessman Meir Brodsky-Schor had five sons: Abram,...
Literary specialist and author of the book Lesia Ukrainka from A to Z discusses Jewish motifs in the texts of Larysa Kosach. Iryna Slavinska: Today we will be discussing a literary topic that is not...
During the winter holidays, when markets were being held in cities, an encounter of various ethnic and religious communities in a single, common space took place on a central square. Diana Klochko is at the...
Yohanan Petrovsky-Shtern, who is a member of Ukrainian Jewish Encounter’s Academic Council, recently discussed two books he authored. Below are a transcript of his interview with Hromadske Radio about his book “Jews and Ukrainians: A...
Editor’s note: In 21-23 November 1918, an estimated 52-150 Jews were killed in a pogrom in Lviv during the Polish-Ukrainian War that followed World War One. In honor of the 100 year-anniversary of this horrific...
The French writer, historian, journalist, and translator Galia Ackerman, who is also the director of the European Forum for Ukraine, discusses stereotypes of Ukrainian antisemitism, the conflict of memories, and other challenges. Iryna Slavinska: Stereotypes...
One special feature of the 2018 Salon [du livre de Paris] was that it included a rather spacious Ukrainian stand and a packed program of events. Among the discussions that took place were conversations about...
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.
