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...
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...
In September 2024, the NGO Israeli Friends of Ukraine will purchase a fully equipped ambulance for emergency medical care in frontline areas suffering from Russian aggression as a gift to Ukraine. Funds for this were...
The following interview with Georges Mink, a French sociologist and specialist in the field of memory studies and the use of the politics of memory in the pursuit of geopolitical goals, zeroes in on the...
The publication of the latest issue of Ukraїna Moderna, entitled The Holocaust in Ukraine: How the History of a Crime Is (Not) Written and focused on Shoah research in Ukraine, sparked significant interest in scholarly...
The following article recapitulates the proceedings of the seminar "Jewish Responses to the Holocaust: Dispossession, Restitution, and Reconstructing the Home" held on 8–12 January 2024 at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C....
The role of Ukrainian nationalists in the Holocaust is a question that figures prominently in Russian propaganda. The following interview with the German historian Kai Struve, a specialist in anti-Jewish violence in Ukraine, focuses on...
[Abstract: In one of his interviews, Vladimir Putin declared that one and a half million Jews were killed during the Second World War, "first and foremost, at the hands of Banderites." This thesis, disseminated initially...
[Abstract: This research article by the Ukrainian historian Daniil Sytnyk examines the particularities of the formation and activity of the auxiliary police in Nazi-occupied Ukraine. The author highlights the specifics of the creation of police...
The following conversation with the American political scientist and expert in comparative genocide is devoted to his comparative research on the Holocaust and understanding of the Russo-Ukrainian War. We discussed the consequences of the latest...
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.
