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...
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...
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...
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...
[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...
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...
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.
