Unification for the sake of salvation Two thousand six hundred and fifty-nine people—that is the number of Ukrainian Righteous Among the Nations announced by Yad Vashem as of 1 January 2020. This figure will be...
The biographical details of Khane-Rokhl Werbermacher are often vague, contradictory, or disputed as there is only scattered documentation. This very uncertainty has inspired legends about the mysterious life of a pious Hasidic woman who achieved...
Martin Dean, Historical Consultant to the BYHMC 9/28/2020 Where exactly did the SS and Police conduct the mass shootings at Babyn Yar on September 29-30, 1941, in which more than 33,000 Jews were shot, and...
In the summer of 2020, a monument to the victims of the anti-Jewish pogrom of 1918 was unveiled at the ancient Jewish cemetery in Hlukhiv, on the initiative of the chairman of that city’s Jewish...
This 23 June 2021 discussion was devoted to “Ukrainian authors in Buchach” featuring writers Andrei Kurkov and Vasyl Makhno who spoke about Ukraine’s contemporary literature at the First International Agnon Festival. Also featured was Mariana...
This 24 June 2021 discussion was devoted to “Memory Politics: Historical issues and modern Jewish-Ukrainian relations” with the participation of Wendy Lower, John K. Roth Chair at Claremont McKenna College in Claremont, California and the...
Published for the first time are records of messages, letters from Metropolitan Andrei Sheptytsky, and acts of the Metropolitan Ordinariate from the time of the German occupation of Eastern Galicia (1941–1944), that were kept by...
My immersion in this man’s biography began by accident. I discovered a brief reference in an article stating that Metropolitan Andrei Sheptytsky had expressed support for Zionism and the creation of a Jewish state in...
On 2 February 2021, the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine adopted a decision establishing 14 May as the day on which Ukrainians who rescued Jews during the Second World War are honored. Our guest on today's...
This 16 June 2021 discussion was devoted to “The State of Contemporary Jewish Life in Ukraine”, with the participation of Berel Rodal, Board Member of the Ukrainian Jewish Encounter; Rabbi Shmuel Kamitnetsky, Rabbi of the...
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.
