[Editor's note: Vasyl Makhno is a Ukrainian poet, novelist, and essayist who is a laureate of many awards, including "Encounter: The Ukrainian-Jewish Literary Prize"™ (2020), sponsored by the Canadian charitable non-profit organization Ukrainian Jewish Encounter...
The following article about Ukrainian forced laborers (male and female) in Nazi Germany during the Second World War focuses on their recruitment and labor exploitation, their return home, and Soviet filtration measures. The compensation payments...
Natan (Anatoly) Sharansky (b. 1948) is a well-known Israeli politician of Ukrainian-Jewish origin and an illustrious human rights advocate. He was born in 1948 in Stalino (now Donetsk) into a Jewish family originally from Odesa....
Our guest is Olena Zaslavska, director of the International Interdisciplinary Certificate Program in Jewish Studies and executive director of the Zionist Federation of Ukraine. She talks about Jewish studies in Ukraine and the interaction between...
Nathan Hanover's work is one of the most famous Jewish chronicles dedicated to the events of 1648–1649 in Ukraine. The story about the destruction of Jewish communities combined with personal memories and impressions of the...
During the Russo-Ukrainian War, educators who teach about the Holocaust have become witnesses to the Putin regime's instrumentalization of the history of the Second World War and the Holocaust, in order to justify its brutal...
Ukrainian-Jewish relations are rich in common pages of history and outstanding figures who once played a significant role in Israel's formation and development. One of them is Ephraim Katzir (Katchalski), a native of Kyiv, an...
Faina Baiek talks about the Bratslav Jewish History Museum, the activities of the local Jewish community during the war, and her family's survival experience. Baiek is a native of Bratslav and has led the Jewish...
[Editor’s note: Vasyl Makhno is a Ukrainian poet, novelist, and essayist who is a laureate of many awards, including “Encounter: The Ukrainian-Jewish Literary Prize"™ (2020), sponsored by the Canadian charitable non-profit organization Ukrainian Jewish Encounter...
On 3 February 2024, the Sholem Aleichem Museum in downtown Kyiv hosted the awards ceremony of the All-Ukrainian Children's Drawing Competition "Ukrainian-Jewish Encounter: A Look into the Future, 2023" and the opening of an exhibition...
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.
