For the eighth consecutive year, the international "Wiki Loves Monuments" photo contest features the "Jewish Heritage" Special Category in Ukraine, organized with UJE's support. The "Jewish Heritage" special nomination covers all immovable Jewish cultural heritage...
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...
[Editor’s note: This interview originally aired in Ukrainian in October 2024.] Olha Limonova, coordinator of the formal education department at the Ukrainian Center for Holocaust Studies, discusses problems and changes in Holocaust remembrance. The Ukrainian...
Tetiana Pastushenko Tetiana Pastushenko reviews Centers of Terror. The Offices of the Chiefs of the Security Police and SD in the Reichskommissariat Ukraine, a book by the German historian Christian Schmittwilken published in Germany in...
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...
The Israeli tour of the Mariupol Drama Theater actors demonstrates how wartime tragedies unite Ukraine and Israel, fostering mutual empathy for each other's suffering. The Donetsk Regional Academic Drama Theater left the city of Mariupol,...
On 2 July, a joint Ukrainian-American photo exhibition titled "United by Liberty" that marks the 250th anniversary of U.S. independence was opened at the Motherland Monument in Kyiv. The exhibition was developed by Ukraine’s War...
Traveling along its itinerary across Ukraine, UJE's exhibition "A Journey Through the Ukrainian-Jewish Encounter: From Antiquity to 1939" came to Bohuslav in the Kyiv region. The grand opening took place on May 13 in the...
The Ukrainian Jewish Encounter was founded in 2008 with the goal of building stronger relations between Ukrainians and Jews, two peoples who, for centuries, lived side by side on the territory of what is modern-day...
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.
