On 31 May 2023 the US-based Anti-Defamation League (ADL) published a survey of antisemitic attitudes in Europe. The media instantly started pumping out headlines stating that the ADL survey paints Ukraine as being more antisemitic...
On 23 September 2021, the Ukrainian parliament passed Law №5109 "On Prevention and Counteraction to Antisemitism in Ukraine." Speaker of the Verkhovna Rada Dmytro Razumkov signed the law on 29 September, the very day that...
Within the last 450 years of the major Jewish presence in Ukraine, only 16 to 20 at most were marked by periods of violence.
[Editor’s note: The following is an updated version of an opinion piece by UJE Board Member Paul Robert Magocsi that originally appeared in The New Pathway on September 12, 2019 and The Ukrainian Weekly on...
When Ukrainians go to the polls on April 21 to vote in the second round of presidential elections, they will have celebrated a remarkable achievement: in an election with a Jewish frontrunner, antisemitism has not been a factor in the campaign.
On 27 January, International Holocaust Remembrance Day, official Israeli agencies always publish a report on manifestations of antisemitism throughout the world for the previous year. The main trends are then presented at a traditional, special...
The topic of antisemitism in Ukraine last year assuredly occupied an important place in the international Jewish agenda. The issue was discussed and condemned, denied and explained. It has caused concern among American politicians and...
Democratic Party Congressman Ro Khanna has recently published a letter dated April 23 on his personal website. The fifty-seven congressional representatives who signed the letter express their dismay over antisemitism and Holocaust denial. Most of...
President Petro Poroshenko of Ukraine condemned “any manifestations of intolerance and antisemitism” in his country following a series of neo-Nazi and other recent antisemitic events there.
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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.
As Ukraine defends its very existence against Russia, the Ukrainian Jewish Encounter Timeline serves to counter the malicious and false narratives about Ukraine and its history. The Timeline demonstrates that Ukraine is home to diverse peoples and, for centuries, one of the world’s oldest and largest Jewish communities.
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.
