Sunday, 10 April 2022 Originally appeared in Ukrainian @pravda.com.ua We looked high and low for the Ukrainian elite, the whole time nodding in frustration at MPs, oligarchs, or media personalities, but it turned out that...
How important are local identities? Do they exist in Ukraine? How did people learn to coexist with each other after many years? On the latest "Encounters" program devoted to Ukrainian-Jewish relations, we talked about Slobidska...
[Editor’s note: Ukrainians will celebrate Easter on 24 April 2022. We are running an interview that aired on Ukraine’s Hromadske Radio Zustrichi program last year to highlight Ukraine’s deep cultural and religious history. Ukraine is...
[Editor’s note: Ukrainians will celebrate Easter on 24 April 2022. We are running an interview that aired on Ukraine’s Hromadske Radio Zustrichi program last year to highlight Ukraine’s deep cultural and religious history. Ukraine is...
Israelis held a marathon race in support of Ukraine. This very successful sports event took place in Hayarkon, Tel Aviv's largest park. Over 600 people took part in the charitable action. The Run for Ukraine...
Photos and illustrations of Ukraine's historic synagogues provide a glimpse into Eastern European Jewish life throughout the last 500 years. The borders of modern-day Ukraine encompass parts of what was once the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth (1569–1795),...
I am an academic at a Kharkiv university, an officer in the reserves and a historian of the Holocaust. And facing Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, Putin's attack on my home, I’m learning what patriotism really...
The largest pro-Ukrainian rally in the history of Israel took place on the evening of Saturday, 26 February, in the center of Tel Aviv, on the square in front of the Habima National Theater. There...
On February 24, Russian forces invaded Ukraine on multiple fronts. Boris Khersonsky (b. 1950), one of Ukraine's most prominent writers, posted "Missa in tempore belli" on Facebook, commenting, "This poem was written in 2014 in...
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.
