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...
Ukrainian sociologist Mykola Homanyuk and German historian and sociologist Mischa Gabowitsch discuss their recently published book, Monuments and Territory: War Memorials in Russian-Occupied Ukraine. They examine the strategies behind Russia's commemorative policies in the Ukrainian...
Reflecting on his experience teaching The Crime of Genocide in the History of Ukraine, an elective course at the University of Michigan, Yurii Kaparulin describes the structure of the course and how it incorporates the...
The publication Islands of Memory is the result of the Agnon Literary Residency, which took place in Buchach, Ukraine, in 2021 as COVID shutdowns were coming to an end, and before Russia’s full-scale invasion of...
Part 2 reviews the main discoveries and conclusions that can be drawn from the series of publications on the history of the Holocaust in western Volynian cities and small towns entitled Life and Death of...
The series of semi-academic publications entitled The Life and Death of Jewish Communities, issued in 2023, examines the Holocaust as it unfolded in various cities and towns of Ukraine. The following article seeks to interpret...
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...
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....
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.
