LVIV, Ukraine — At the Lviv, Ukraine, Limmud FSU conference last weekend, despite the city’s remote distance from the Russian border, the turmoil of violence in the east and the political instability were palpable.
The Kyiv city leader and one of the most prominent politicians in today’s Ukraine told Forum Daily why he wants to go back to Jerusalem with his family and children. Kyiv mayor Vitali Klitschko and...
Victor Pinchuk, businessman, philanthropist, and founder of the Yalta European Strategy, is to receive the Metropolitan Andrei Sheptytsky Award for 2014. The award, conferred by the Jewish Confederation of Ukraine and the Ukrainian Jewish Encounter,...
Once home to a thriving Jewish community, this border city experienced a renaissance of Jewish life over the weekend during Limmud Ukraine’s annual conference.
The renowned Ukrainian writer Yuri Andrukhovych was featured in the inaugural Hromadske (Public) Radio broadcast of “Encounters,” a new program devoted to Ukrainian-Jewish relations. Yuri Andrukhovych is currently working on Eight Former Synagogues, or Labels...
Over six hundred kilograms of warm winter clothes in 53 boxes collected from Ashdod and Netanya in the center and south of Israel were sorted and prepared for shipment to Ukraine on 25 October 2014....
Jews from the former Soviet Union are different from the “mainstream” Jewish community in Canada. That was the sentiment expressed repeatedly this past weekend, including from those who weren’t themselves born in the FSU but...
The Israeli Parliament’s television channel covered the pro-Ukrainian march in Tel-Aviv on 18 September 2014, which was organized by the “Israel Supports Ukraine” group and led by Ilya Sokolov. Yana Suriadna, the foreign affairs correspondent...
The following commentary by Stanislav Gluzman, head of the Jewish Business Club in Kharkiv, appeared in Forum Daily, the largest Russian-language publication in the United States. The English-language version appears with Forum Daily’s permission. The...
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.
