The Jewish population of Ukraine before the Second World War was over 2.5 million. Now the current population is only around 100,000. A whole world with its very own culture, rules, and customs was decimated...
Publisher Oksana Forostyna talks about Israeli ingenuity, the innovation boom, and Avi Jorisch’s new book. Iryna Slavinska: Today’s program is devoted to an unusual topic. We will be talking about Israel and innovations. Our focus...
[Editor’s note: In an effort to broaden the discussion of Ukrainian-Jewish interactions and relations, the Ukrainian Jewish Encounter proudly supports independent media projects. Along with Ukraine’s Hromadske Radio and Istorychna Pravda and Nash Holos in...
Diane Covert is a Boston-based photographer who uses her talent and love of the craft to bring attention to genocide and terrorism. Diane’s work was brought to my attention by Allison Zivin at the Felshtin...
The historian Iryna Sklokina discusses the unofficial memory of the Holocaust during Soviet times, the search for unknown heroes, and the struggle to establish monuments. Today we will be talking about a lecture that took...
Our featured guest today is Boris Czerny, who teaches Russian language and culture at the University of Caen Normandy in France. On today’s edition of Encounters, we have an opportunity to get to know a...
The Leningrad writer [Mikhail Kheifets] ends up behind KGB bars then in a camp in Mordovia, where the entire crème de la crème of the Ukrainian, Lithuanian, Armenian, Zionist, and other anti-communist resistance movements are...
Dave Bloom is a member of the board of an organization dedicated to preserving the story of two Jewish communities and surrounding areas in Ukraine. One of them is called Drohobycz and the other is...
The fifth annual festival of Ukrainian culture in Israel, Ethno-Khutir, which took place on 28 June 2019 in Tel Aviv, set a new record for attendance. If in 2018 two thousand Israelis came to the...
The historian Iryna Yavorska talks about “Jerusalem on the Prut River” after the war, Soviet propaganda, and the Yiddish language in Chernivtsi. Andriy Kobalia: The Second World War changed the face of many Ukrainian cities....
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.
