Kyiv expert Mykhailo Kalnytsky discusses Moorish architecture in Kyiv, the Karaites, and a mysterious building on Yaroslaviv Val Street. Andriy Kobalia: In Kyiv, not far from the Golden Gates, is an extraordinary old building. It...
Today we’ll be speaking with Julia Korsunsky, whose story we first heard on Nash Holos last year. Julia is the Executive Director of RememberUs.org, a non-profit organization based in Massachusetts. Her organization is involved in...
The regional historian Lyubov Khomyn talks about Belz Hasidism, the central square, and the town’s Jewish history. Andriy Kobalia: This city is located three kilometers from the Polish border. In his research the historian Janusz...
Regional historian Petro Hutsal talks about Jewish military units in the Ukrainian Galician Army. In the fall of 1918 the Habsburg Empire fell after four years of war, and new states rose up from its...
The historian Vladyslav Hrynevych spoke on the topic of Jews serving in the armies of the Romanovs, Habsburgs, and Bolsheviks. Historians often call the First World War the “Great War,” as it was the first...
Hava Nagila. The words are Hebrew for Let Us Rejoice. They also comprise the title of one of the most recognizable and well-known songs in the world. And little did I know just how appropriate a...
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...
Ruth Ellen Gruber is an American journalist, author, editor and researcher. Her book, Jewish Heritage Travel: A Guide to Eastern Europe, was first published twenty-five years ago and is still considered the most complete Jewish...
Ruth Ellen Gruber is an American journalist, author, editor and researcher. She has published and lectured widely and has won several awards for her work on Jewish heritage and contemporary Jewish issues in Europe. Her...
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...
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.
