On February 4th, 2015, Jews around the world will celebrate Tu BiShvat. It falls on the 15th day of the Hebrew month of Shevat. In Jewish tradition Tu BiShvat is known as the New Year...
Metropolitan Andrei Sheptytsky is known as the `saviour of Jews` during World War II. Renata Hanynets explains why, in this week’s look at Ukraine’s Jewish Heritage. Audio file is here. Transcript. Metropolitan Andrei Sheptytsky is...
Welcome to Ukrainian Jewish Heritage ... a radio series on Nash Holos Ukrainian Roots Radio ... sponsored by the Ukrainian Jewish Encounter based in Toronto, Ontario. January 27th marks the anniversary of the liberation of...
Hannukah this year begins on December 16 and will last until December 24. Listen to Nash Holos host Paulette MacQuarrie report about this holiday... Hanukkah is a joyous holiday, celebrated every year by Jews around...
Robert Paul Magocsi is a renowned historian and a researcher of the history of Ukraine. He brings a particular point of view in his attention to the multi-nationalism of Ukrainian lands. Professor Magocsi described for...
The renowned Ukrainian writer Yuri Andrukhovych was featured in the inaugural Hromadske (Public) Radio broadcast of “Encounters,” a new program devoted to Ukrainian-Jewish relations. Yuri Andrukhovych is currently working on Eight Former Synagogues, or Labels...
Babyn Yar is a ravine on the outskirts of Kyiv that has become a symbol of the Holocaust. There more than 100 thousand perished during the Nazi occupation, including 40,000 Jews. Babyn Yar was first...
Listen to the latest installment of “Ukrainian Jewish Heritage” by Vancouver, Canada's Nash Holos Ukrainian Roots Radio, a UJE partner. This segment features Lidia Kotliarevska, who rescued Jews during the Nazi occupation of Dnipropetrovsk. The...
Listen to the latest installment of “Ukrainian Jewish Heritage” by Vancouver, Canada's Nash Holos Ukrainian Roots Radio, a UJE partner. This segment discusses the Tkuma Institue for Holocaust Studies in Dnipropetrovsk, Ukraine. The program, as...
«If you believe that you can damage, then believe that you can fix. » Those are the words of Rebbe Nachman, founder of the Breslov Hasidic movement. In his short life, Rebbe Nachman achieved much...
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.
