Many prominent political leaders of Israel, including two presidents and three prime ministers, come from Ukraine. One of them is Moshe Sharett (born Moshe Chertok). He was born in 1894 in the city of Kherson....
Jews and Ukrainians: A Millennium of Co-Existence is an award-winning book that explores the relationship between two of Ukraine’s most historically significant peoples over the centuries. In its second edition, the book tells the story of...
A conversation about entrepreneurship and business in Ukraine in the second half of the nineteenth–early twentieth centuries, particularly the sector that was in the hands of the Jewish community. The second half of the nineteenth...
Jews and Ukrainians: A Millennium of Co-Existence is an award-winning book that explores the relationship between two of Ukraine’s most historically significant peoples over the centuries. In its second edition, the book tells the story of...
The following article recapitulates the proceedings of the seminar "Jewish Responses to the Holocaust: Dispossession, Restitution, and Reconstructing the Home" held on 8–12 January 2024 at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C....
For six years, from 1980-1985, I spent July in a sports camp near the village of Dvorichna in the Kharkiv region. Now, the northernmost and last 30-kilometer section of the bleeding front in the Russian-Ukrainian...
Jews and Ukrainians: A Millennium of Co-Existence is an award-winning book that explores the relationship between two of Ukraine’s most historically significant peoples over the centuries. In its second edition, the book tells the story of...
Our guest is Abraham Kefeli, a hazzan and teacher of computer music, music theory, piano, arrangement, and composition. He is a Karaite who was born in Simferopol and now lives in Israel. On 9 August,...
The role of Ukrainian nationalists in the Holocaust is a question that figures prominently in Russian propaganda. The following interview with the German historian Kai Struve, a specialist in anti-Jewish violence in Ukraine, focuses on...
Jews and Ukrainians: A Millennium of Co-Existence is an award-winning book that explores the relationship between two of Ukraine’s most historically significant peoples over the centuries. In its second edition, the book tells the story of...
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.
