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...
Toponyms in honor of the Righteous Among the Nations in Dnipro, Odesa, Rivne, and other cities What has changed since Ukraine introduced the Remembrance Day for Ukrainians Who Saved Jews During the Second World War...
Who is Mykhailo Rudnytsky, and why is it important to know his name in the context of the formation of Ukrainian-Jewish relations? This topic was discussed with Illia Chedoluma, a graduate student at the Ukrainian...
During the Second World War, Count Andrei Sheptytsky, the metropolitan of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church (UGCC), rescued approximately 100–150 Jews, both adults and children. This well-known fact figures in numerous scholarly and semi-popular books...
3,000 kilometers separate Jerusalem and Kyiv. And that distance is probably why most Israelis don’t know how much their normal everyday life is already connected to Ukraine, or how much of what they take for granted actually depends on peace and stability in Ukraine.
Those who think a large-scale Russian war against Ukraine cannot affect Israel are very much mistaken. This is why.
The Ukrainian-language translation of The Anti-Imperial Choice: The Making of the Ukrainian Jew by Yohanan Petrovsky-Shtern, published by Krytyka Press in 2018, was the second winner of "Encounter: The Ukrainian-Jewish Literary Prize" ™ in 2021....
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.
