The Ukrainian Jewish Encounter was founded in 2008 with the goal of building stronger relations between Ukrainians and Jews, two peoples who, for centuries, lived side by side on the territory of what is modern-day...
Ukrainian historian Vladyslav Hrynevych, Sr., discusses modern practices of commemorating WWII victims and heroes. Ukraine is rapidly rethinking its memorial space and commemorative practices, rejecting many elements of the Soviet narrative. At the same time,...
How a Jewish boy from a Ukrainian town lost in the forests and swamps of the Chernihiv region became a friend of the US president and played a key role in the recognition of the...
The Ukrainian Jewish Encounter was founded in 2008 with the goal of building stronger relations between Ukrainians and Jews, two peoples who, for centuries, lived side by side on the territory of what is modern-day...
Rose Ausländer (née Scherzer) was a prominent representative of modernist German-language Jewish poetry that emerged in Czernowitz (now Chernivtsi) in the 1920s and 1930s. She was born in Czernowitz on 11 May 1901. Her mother,...
On 2 March 2026, the Bila Tserkva Local History Museum hosted the opening of the traveling exhibition "A Journey Through the Ukrainian-Jewish Encounter: From Antiquity to 1939," created by UJE. The exhibition traces the centuries-old...
The Ukrainian Jewish Encounter was founded in 2008 with the goal of building stronger relations between Ukrainians and Jews, two peoples who, for centuries, lived side by side on the territory of what is modern-day...
Former Ukrainian Defense Minister Oleksii Reznikov gave an exclusive interview to UJE, discussing the need for a close partnership between Ukraine, Israel, and the United States to confront the Russia-Iran axis of evil, sharing his...
On 22 February, the exhibition "A Journey Through the Ukrainian-Jewish Encounter: From Antiquity to 1939," created by UJE, opened at the Hillel International Center in Kyiv. Hillel is an international Jewish student organization that unites...
The Ukrainian Jewish Encounter was founded in 2008 with the goal of building stronger relations between Ukrainians and Jews, two peoples who, for centuries, lived side by side on the territory of what is modern-day...
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.
