The streets of Sarona have never looked as colorful as they did on 18 May 2023. That day several hundred Israelis from various cities in Israel came together in a park in the Sarona neighborhood...
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...
[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 articles done...
The book of the German literary critic and translator Petro Rykhlo introduces the reader to the polyphonic sound of Paul Celan's poetry, structured according to the principle of multi-layered intellectual and emotional palimpsests when the...
Why is it important to preserve historical and cultural memory, and was this out of the question during Soviet times? Our guest on today's episode of the Encounters program, devoted to Ukrainian-Jewish relations, is Anatoly...
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...
Vitaly Portnikov, March 2023 For a journalist, war is work. In this sense, a journalist’s work is more akin to that of a soldier or a doctor. Choosing this profession — if it is a...
Russia's invasion of Ukraine on 24 February 2022 shocked the world. For months, Western governments had warned of the impending criminal war — "absurd," the world responded. In the 21st century, larger powers invading smaller...
How was the state policy toward the Jews formulated in the Soviet Union, and how did the international situation influence these processes? Our guest today is the historian Serhiy Hirik, who teaches in the Master's...
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...
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.
