Oleksandr Oleksiiovych Slobodianyk, Righteous Among the Nations, died on 2 July 2022 at the age of 94 in the town of Lubny, Poltava oblast. He suffered a nervous breakdown after the news about the war,...
Tel Aviv's famed Sipur Pashut — Independent Bookstore and Ukrainian Jewish Encounter (UJE) co-sponsored an event about the book "Jews and Ukrainians: A Millennium of Co-Existence" and Russia's unprovoked war against Ukraine on June 8,...
UJE Board Member Prof. Paul Robert Magocsci spoke at the new Ukrainian cultural center in Tel Aviv, Israel on 9 June 2022 on the topic "Ukrainians and Jews: a historical perspective against the backdrop of...
Russia began its war against Ukraine under the slogans of denazification and accusing Ukrainians of Nazism. This is despite the fact that Jewish leaders in Ukraine, such as Josef Zissels and Chief Rabbi of Ukraine...
Prof. Paul Robert Magocsi's talk "Jews and Ukrainians: A Millennium of Co-Existence, as seen through the war" took place at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem on 9 June 2022. During the presentation, Prof. Magocsi focused...
The teenager Sashko Slobodianyk, together with his parents, saved the lives of David and Dora Gershengorn. The Ukrainian family hid some homeless and starving ghetto prisoners in their house in Bershad. Eighty years later, the...
What is klezmer music? Why this name, and how did this music influence Ukrainian traditional music? Or is it the reverse: Can one trace the influence of Ukrainian music on klezmer? We discussed all these...
On 25 January 2022, the Sholem Aleichem Museum in Kyiv hosted the grand opening of the exhibition of works by participants of the All-Ukrainian Children's Drawing Contest "Ukrainian-Jewish Encounter: Our Stories Are Incomplete Without Each...
When traveling to Ukraine, among the essentials I pack is a small, rolled-up image my 'tato' (father) sketched in 1950 that he called 'memories of Batkivshchyna' or 'homeland.' The picture of a quaint village was...
On today's “Encounters” program, dedicated to Ukrainian-Jewish relations, we are continuing our conversation about the history of the Jewish community in the city of Volodymyr. In the first part of the program, "A thousand years...
