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 idea for the thematic issue No. 34 of the magazine Ukraina Moderna arose before the start of Russia's large-scale war against Ukraine, but the issue itself was released after the war’s first year. Most...
Our conversation with Marina Mogilner, Associate Professor of History at the University of Illinois at Chicago, USA, focuses on the ongoing decolonizing discussions in academia in the United States and Western Europe. Some historians are...
ABSTRACT. This interview with the Ukrainian-American historian Sergei (Serhii) Zhuk focuses on the role of public intellectuals in the conditions of Russia's aggression against Ukraine. Researching the activities of the Soviet secret services in North...
Polina Barvinska [Editor's note: Russia's unprovoked and criminal war against Ukraine suspended the regular work of many organizations, reorienting their efforts. So it is with the Ukrainian Jewish Encounter. We are occasionally running interviews and...
ABSTRACT. This interview with the Ukrainian Canadian historian Andriy Zayarnyuk features a frank discussion of the contradictory positions held by many Western historians and intellectuals, who, after 24 February 2022, are more inclined to accuse Ukraine...
Abstract: This essay raises the issue of historians' responsibility to the communities that they study. While some purported version of history has been central to the Kremlin's justifications for Russia's aggression against Ukraine, the region's...
International seminars are a continuation of the rubric "Overcoming the Past" (in a modified format), devoted to the history of genocidal violence on the territories of Ukraine. In this episode, Kai Struve of Martin Luther...
In my view, Alex Averbuch's book Zhydivsky korol (Kyiv: Dukh i Litera, 2021) should be considered as a cultural fact of Ukrainian-Jewish relations. Interwoven into the poems in this volume are colorful threads from the...
The next online seminar "Overcoming the Past" will be held on 29 November 2022 at 1:00 p.m. (Kyiv time). The seminar’s guest is Kai Struve, Ph.D., associate professor of East European history at the Institute...
For hundreds of years, Ukraine fought for independence and built plans for a free future. It made sense of its complicated past, in which one of the most important aspects was resistance to conquest, division,...
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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.
As Ukraine defends its very existence against Russia, the Ukrainian Jewish Encounter Timeline serves to counter the malicious and false narratives about Ukraine and its history. The Timeline demonstrates that Ukraine is home to diverse peoples and, for centuries, one of the world’s oldest and largest Jewish communities.
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.
