Volodymyr Rafeyenko We have no other option but Victory, for which and for the sake of which we are all living. This event, whenever it happens, will be the biggest event in everyone’s life....
Since the start of Russia’s full-scale war on Ukraine, the world has discovered the unity of Ukrainians of all backgrounds in protecting their statehood. However, in the past, Ukraine, a multilingual and multicultural state, has...
Yitzhak Ben-Zvi, né Shimshelevich, was born into the Jewish family of Zvi Shimshelevich and Atara Kopelevich in Poltava in 1884. He received his primary education at a heder and continued his studies at the gymnasium...
On 15 March 2023, representatives of the Ukrainian office of the Canadian non-profit charitable organization Ukrainian Jewish Encounter (UJE) paid a visit to Uman Lyceum №1 to acquaint teachers and students with UJE's activities and...
The streets of Sarona have never looked as colorful as they did on 18 May 2023. That day several hundred Israelis from various cities in Israel came together in a park in the Sarona neighborhood...
Thanks to its long-term cooperation with UJE, the Pavlo Tychyna Uman State Pedagogical University (UDPU) has once again opened its doors hospitably to guests attending interesting events geared to the students and faculty of this...
Ukrainians and Jews have lived side-by-side on the territory of modern-day Ukraine for nearly two millennia. Separately and together, they weaved a tapestry that has left an indelible mark on Ukraine's cultural, linguistic, and historical...
Paul Robert Magocsi, Membre du conseil, Ukrainian Jewish Encounter, est un grand spécialiste de l’histoire d’Ukraine et des composantes sociales et linguistiques de la société ukrainienne. Professeur à l’Université de Toronto, il vient de publier...
Lors de la conversation de Paul Robert Magocsi avec Philippe de Lara le premier va aborder des questions de développement de l’Ukraine comme une formation étatique dans le contexte historique, son identité nationale et les...
Polina Barvinska [Editor's note: Russia's unprovoked and criminal war against Ukraine suspended the regular work of many organizations, reorienting their efforts. So it is with the Ukrainian Jewish Encounter. We are occasionally running interviews and...
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.
