On 24 February 2022, Russia launched a criminal war on Ukraine, with devastating consequences. For those wishing this holiday season to contribute to Ukraine's war effort, there are many ways to help, including on the...
Considering the threat on the lives or academics in Ukraine, and in a show of solidarity, the Hebrew University is offering academic hosting for Ukrainian academic staff and students of higher degrees. Ukrainian academic faculty...
Ivan Dziuba, a brave Ukrainian intellectual, a brilliant analyst, a patriot and a true moral authority, has passed away. The heart of the native of the village of Mykhailivka, Volnovakha district, Donetsk region, stopped on...
To friends and readers around the world, we wish everyone a happy holiday season and wonderous New Year. We will return to this space on 17 January 2022.
To friends and readers around the world, we wish you a very happy holiday season and a wonderful new year. Stay healthy and safe. We will return to this space on 18 January 2021.
Hryhorii Arshynov, a force for the preservation of Ukraine’s Jewish heritage, an engineer, a builder, a businessman, philanthropist, and deputy of the Ostroh City Council in Volyn, has died. Hryhorii Arshynov contracted the coronavirus on...
UJE board member Mark Freiman has been appointed to the Order of Ontario, the highest honor bestowed on civilians by this Canadian province. Instituted in 1986, the order is intended to honor any current or...
To friends and readers around the world, we wish you a very happy holiday season and a wonderful new year. May you always be inspired. We will return to this space on 15 January 2020.
To friends and readers around the world, we wish you a very happy holiday season and wonderful new year. May you always be inspired. We will return to this space on 14 January 2019.
Providentially, UJE Board Member Berel Rodal and UJE Co-Director Alti Rodal participated in a ceremony on July 27, 2018 inaugurating a monument dedicated to the Jews murdered during the Holocaust in Velyki Mezhyrichi, a village...
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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.
