Ivan Dziuba was a dissident, literary critic, Minister of Culture of Ukraine, and co-founder of the People's Movement of Ukraine, the first opposition party in Soviet Ukraine. He played a key role in restoring Ukraine's...
Professor Paul Robert Magocsi — Ukraine: A History Course. The Ukrainian Jewish Encounter is pleased to present a lecture series by Paul Robert Magocsi titled Ukraine: A History Course. Magocsi recorded 45 lectures in 2023...
We continue our publications dedicated to the Ukrainian Righteous Among the Nations. After Holocaust Remembrance Day, we think of Metropolitan Andrey Sheptytsky, a well-known Ukrainian who is recognized as the rescuer of Jews in the...
Our conversation with the Israeli historian Semion Goldin is focused on how the Russo-Ukrainian War has affected Jewish Studies and Holocaust Studies, on the whole, in Ukraine and Russia. We also discussed the connection between...
The dramatic changes in US–Ukraine international policy from February to March 2025 have caused great concern among Ukraine's friends in Israel. Thus, the pro-Ukrainian Israeli group Prostir's initiative to hold a discussion was timely and...
Professor Paul Robert Magocsi — Ukraine: A History Course. The Ukrainian Jewish Encounter is pleased to present a lecture series by Paul Robert Magocsi titled Ukraine: A History Course. Magocsi recorded 45 lectures in 2023...
Barbra Streisand is one of the most popular American actresses and singers of Jewish origin. She has won two Oscars and Emmy, Grammy, and Golden Globe awards. She was born in 1942 in New York...
Yelyzaveta Lytvynchuk, a member of the Advisory Council on Indigenous Peoples at the State Service of Ukraine for Ethnic Policy and Freedom of Conscience, speaks about the Karaites and their cultural heritage. Discovering Karaite background...
As a poet who was born in Ukraine and survived the Holocaust there, Paul Celan was able to speak clearly on the issue of poetry in times of catastrophe. His response is still relevant today...
Professor Paul Robert Magocsi — Ukraine: A History Course. The Ukrainian Jewish Encounter is pleased to present a lecture series by Paul Robert Magocsi titled Ukraine: A History Course. Magocsi recorded 45 lectures in 2023...
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.
