Silent witnesses of past centuries are hidden in the depths of the Ukrainian landscape among its hills, streets, and ruins. Ukraine's Jewish cultural heritage survives not only in words and memories but also in forms,...
Vladyslava Moskalets A Polish translation of Ghosts of Home: The Afterlife of Czernowitz in Jewish Memory, by Marianne Hirsch, a specialist on Holocaust memory, and Leo Spitzer, was published in Poland in 2023. This book...
[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...
The VYSHYVANKA FEST 2025 festival was held with great success in Ashkelon, southern Israel's largest city, which is adjacent to the Gaza Strip and has repeatedly been subjected to rocket attacks by terrorists. Yevhen Korniychuk,...
[Editor’s note: Shavout in 2025 begins in the Diaspora at sundown on Sunday, 1 June 2025 and ends at nightfall on Tuesday, 3 June 2025.] In this episode of the Encounters program, we will discuss...
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...
Binyamin Minich, rabbi of the Daniel congregation in Tel Aviv, speaks on Hromadske Radio, explaining how Pesach is celebrated in Ukraine and worldwide. [Editor’s note: This podcast originally appeared on 29 April 2024.] About Pesach...
The following interview with the Holodomor researcher Daria Mattingly focuses on her view of the current state and prospects of Holodomor studies. Dr. Mattingly recounts a personal story that prompted her to study the Holodomor....
Dmytro Afanasiev, head of medical projects at the Kolo Charity Foundation, discusses the foundation's activities, such as equipping evacuation trains, supplying wound vacuum devices, and borrowing experience. Activities of the Kolo Charity Foundation Yelyzaveta Tsarehradska:...
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.
