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...
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...
What materials anchor the exhibition "Ukrainian-Jewish Century: Photos and Stories from 1920 to 2025" at the Babyn Yar National Historical and Memorial Reserve? Do the layers of unfolding current events cloud our memory of past...
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...
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...
A massive wave of Jewish pilgrims from around the world, primarily from Israel, broke all previous records in September 2026. Why is this happening despite the wartime dangers in Ukraine, and how did Putin's propaganda...
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,...
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...
Vladyslava Moskalets With the advent of smartphones and Netflix, we have been gradually losing the canon of popular culture — the films and books that everyone knows, with recognizable characters and catchy quotes. Our tastes...
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...
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.
