Ola Hnatiuk: "The past directly impacts the present. It can be explained in the simplest terms: we have run from the past for so long that the time has finally come to confront it and...
Serhiy Hirik: "The Nazis did not create antisemitism from scratch. It existed practically everywhere Jews lived and even where they did not" Serhiy Hirik, a PhD in History, specializes in the history of Ukrainian Jews...
Vladyslava Moskalets: "We need to allow ourselves to explore not only Ukrainian history, but also Jewish, Polish, Armenian, and other histories. After all, they are all part of Ukraine's history" Vladyslava Moskalets is a historian,...
Ukrainian Jewish Encounter (UJE), a Canadian charitable non-profit organization, and Ukraine's NGO Publishers' Forum (Lviv, Ukraine) are pleased to announce that Dnipro: Biography of a Great City in the Steppe written by Andrii Portnov and...
During his recent working visit to Poland, Ihor Kryvosheia, a professor in the Department of World History and Teaching Methods at Pavlo Tychyna Uman State Pedagogical University and head of the university's Polish Cultural and...
Continuing its tour across Ukrainian cities and towns, the exhibition "A Journey Through the Ukrainian-Jewish Encounter: From Antiquity to 1939," created by UJE, came to Romaniv in Zhytomyr Oblast. The opening ceremony took place on...
In December 2019, the Canadian charitable non-profit organization Ukrainian Jewish Encounter, in cooperation with Ukraine's NGO "Publishers Forum" (Lviv, Ukraine), announced a new initiative entitled Encounter: The Ukrainian-Jewish Literary Prize. The prize aims to build...
Continuing its tour across Ukrainian cities, the exhibition "A Journey Through the Ukrainian-Jewish Encounter: From Antiquity to 1939," created by UJE, came to Korostyshiv in Zhytomyr Oblast. The opening ceremony took place on 18 May...
I dream of reading a study or essay about what Uman was like in the late 19th century and the first half of the 20th century. A text that would explain how and why, having...
On 17 May 2026, the Vyshhorod Municipal House of Culture "Enerhetyk" hosted the opening of the exhibition "A Journey Through the Ukrainian-Jewish Encounter: From Antiquity to 1939," created by UJE. The event became an important...
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.
