In May 2021, the Canadian non-profit charitable organization Ukrainian Jewish Encounter (UJE) will launch an exciting new collaborative project in Ukraine’s media sphere. UJE’s partner is the Lviv-based online publication ZAXID.NET, which has gained popularity...
Thanks to the support of the privately organized, multinational initiative Ukrainian Jewish Encounter (UJE), a new column entitled “Overcoming the Past” has been introduced on the website of Ukraїna Moderna. The new column is designed...
The Odessa Review is a bi-monthly English-language magazine covering contemporary Ukrainian culture, arts, policy, events, business and current affairs. The magazine’s October/November 2017 issue was dedicated to Ukrainian-Jewish relations. This special issue was made possible...
The non-profit organization “Israeli Friends of Ukraine” (IFU) is dedicated to strengthening the relationship between Israel and Ukraine and between Ukrainians and Jews by developing an effective cultural dialog and promoting efforts to raise the...
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,...
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...
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....
Our conversation with the Israeli historian Semion Goldin is focused on how the Russo-Ukrainian War has affected Jewish Studies and Holocaust Studies, on the whole, in Ukraine and Russia. We also discussed the connection between...
This story began in Tel Aviv during the celebration of Ukraine's Independence Day on 24 August 2024. The event was a pro-Ukrainian festival organized by the Israeli Friends of Ukraine, supported by the Ukrainian Jewish...
The last wave of street renaming in Lviv, on which many hopes had been pinned, has also brought a number of disappointments, revealing that social trends change very slowly. On the one hand, the rejection...
In the following interview, the Ukrainian historian and political scientist Maksym Gon discusses the impact of his service in the Armed Forces of Ukraine (ZSU) on comprehending the past, particularly the history of the Second...
By Vladyslava Moskalets As I was leaving for my month-long research stay in Paris, I took along Blooming Spaces: The Collected Poetry, Prose, Critical Writing, and Letters of Debora Vogel (2020), translated and edited by...
On 31 October 2024, the ANU Museum of the Jewish People in Tel Aviv premiered the documentary film Parallels: Beyond Borders. The non-profit organization Israeli Friends of Ukraine carried out this large-scale project with the...
[Editor's note: Yehor Vradii will participate in the following discussions at the XXXI Lviv BookForum that will take place 3-6 October: "Wars in Ukraine and Israel from a diplomatic and political point of view" (4...
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.
