The Minister of Defense of Ukraine Stepan Poltorak published on his Facebook page a rare photo of a young Ukrainian officer in a black Jewish kippah. The photo featured Natan Khazin, one of creators and...
Timothy Snyder is an American historian and professor of Yale University. He came to Ukraine [in January 2016] to present a new translation of his work Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin, which was first...
A heroic Soviet mythology informs the story of the Dynamo soccer team in German-occupied Kyiv during the Second World War. The team was celebrated in Soviet propaganda for its supposed refusal to throw a game...
The center of our attention today is the multidisciplinary program “The Pain of Memory” that took place at the Pinchuk Art Centre in Kyiv 15-21 August 2016. We are talking about memory and how it...
Although they have lived side by side for over a millennium on the territory of modern day Ukraine, there is much Ukrainians and Jews do not know about each other. That has frequently led to...
Ukrainian Jewish Encounter, with the support of the Government of Canada, sponsored the publication of Jews and Ukrainians: A Millennium of Co-Existence. There is much that ordinary Ukrainians do not know about Jews and that...
Dr. Vitaliy Nakhmanovych outlines the problem: there is no will by various groups to create a common vision of Babyn Yar. Historically Babyn Yar emerged as an example of mass shootings of Kyivan Jews, and...
Volodymyr Viatrovych, the director of the Ukrainian Institute of National Remembrance, outlines the events in Kyiv in the early days of the German occupation during the Second World War. The German army entered Kyiv on...
A delegation of young Israelis participated in the educational and memorial events in Kyiv devoted to the 75th anniversary of Babyn Yar. Having come back home, several participants of this project—mainly activists of the Israeli...
Welcome to Ukrainian Jewish Heritage on Nash Holos Ukrainian Roots Radio. I’m Peter Bejger. Today we look at symbols and mythologies. When competing narratives on history clash, the battle over symbols becomes heated and emotional....
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.
