[Editor's note: Earlier this year, a debate took place in Ukrainian media about the Holocaust and memory in the context of Russia's criminal war against Ukraine. On 18-19 November, we offer two points of view...
The writer Vasyl Makhno has been living in the USA for nearly 25 years but has never lost touch with the Ukrainian cultural context. He writes and works in New York, but his books are...
Jews and Ukrainians: A Millennium of Co-Existence is an award-winning book that explores the relationship between two of Ukraine’s most historically significant peoples over the centuries. In its second edition, the book tells the story of...
Rachel Korn is closely related to the Jewish literary environment of interwar Galicia. Together with Rokhl Auerbakh and Debora Vogel, she launched the Zuschtajer journal, laying the foundation for experimental Yiddish literature of the time....
Our series of articles on the Ukrainian Righteous Among the Nations tells the stories of Jews rescued by Ukrainians. In contrast, this piece is about Israelis helping Ukrainians from the Righteous families during the ongoing...
On 31 October 2024, the ANU Museum of the Jewish People in Tel Aviv premiered the documentary film Parallels: Beyond Borders. The non-profit organization Israeli Friends of Ukraine carried out this large-scale project with the...
Jews and Ukrainians: A Millennium of Co-Existence is an award-winning book that explores the relationship between two of Ukraine’s most historically significant peoples over the centuries. In its second edition, the book tells the story of...
Two friends, graduates of a religious Jewish school in Kyiv, defend Ukraine, helping repel Russia's aggression. They also keep Israel on their minds and talk about the future of Ukrainian-Jewish relations after the war. Igor...
Jews and Ukrainians: A Millennium of Co-Existence is an award-winning book that explores the relationship between two of Ukraine’s most historically significant peoples over the centuries. In its second edition, the book tells the story of...
What causes empires to fall, can they fall without casualties, and which are the modern empires? Natalia Kryvda is a philosopher and a director of Academic Programmes at Edinburgh Business School Eastern Europe; James Alan...
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.
