"Jews must leave the city of Kharkiv," wrote a German soldier or officer on the back of this photo, and calmly proceeded to write with his ink pen. This photo can be dated even though...
A roundtable discussion about the book Babyn Yar: History and Memory occurred on 21 November at the 2024 ASEEES Annual Convention in Boston. The roundtable members were Olga Kiyan of Harvard University, Norman Naimark of...
Yulia Robchynska, a Jewish education manager at Project Kesher, talks about Hanukkah. [Editor’s note: This interview originally aired in 2023.] What is Hanukkah for your family? Yulia Robchynska: In my family, this holiday was not...
Yohanan Petrovsky-Shtern is a man of many trades. He is a historian, a linguist, a translator, an essayist, and an artist, and the list goes on and on. Currently living in the United States, he...
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...
An insightful discussion on intercultural relations titled "Shared Histories: Ukrainian-Jewish and Danish-Jewish Relations Through Time" occurred on 23 October at Copenhagen's Ukraine House in Denmark. Nataliia Popovych, the institution's chairperson, moderated the event. The event...
Originally appeared in Ukrainian @Chytomo Amadoka is not Sofia Andrukhovych's newest book (she has recently published Catananche), but it is definitely her most voluminous one in terms of the number of pages and ideas. As...
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...
In November–December 2004, as an Israeli journalist, I was in Kyiv on the eve of the Ukrainian presidential elections. I found myself in the epicenter of the Orange Revolution, which was unfolding before my eyes...
Our guest is Yuri (Amir) Radchenko, Ph.D. in History, co-founder of the Center for Interethnic Relations Research in Eastern Europe, invited lecturer at the International Interdisciplinary Judaica Certification Program, and acting rabbi in Masoret, a...
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.
