Victoria Amelina, the award-winning Ukrainian writer and war crimes researcher, was laid to rest in her native Lviv on 5 July 2023. She died on 1 July 2023 from wounds sustained during a criminal Russian...
John Simpson An impressive account of the origins and early stages of Russia's invasion of Ukraine At the time of writing this review, we still await the big Ukrainian counter-offensive. On its success or failure...
By Robert P Baird Last September, seven months after Russia launched a full-scale invasion of Ukraine, the Yale historian Timothy Snyder took a 16-hour train ride from Poland to Kyiv. Snyder knew the city well:...
Zofia Radzikowska, formerly Professor of Law at the Jagiellonian University, talks about her unique experience of helping Ukrainians in Kraków, the fight against communism in Poland, and her own experience of surviving genocide. Kraków was...
(English Transcript) Dear people! On May 8, Ukraine and the free world remember six terrible years in the history of mankind. From 1939 to 1945... The years that took the lives of millions of people,...
When the Russian troops occupying Sydorovychi in the Kyiv region retreated last year, it wasn’t just locals’ household appliances they looted. They also stole the Israeli flag gifted to the village in honor of its...
(JTA) — For Michal Stamova, the challenge of translating Passover's core text into Ukrainian started with the title. The haggadah — the book containing the Passover story — starts with an "h" sound in both Hebrew, its...
In this review PUTIN’S WARS From Chechnya to Ukraine 384pp. Osprey Publishing. £25. Mark Galeotti OVERREACH The inside story of Putin’s war against Ukraine 432pp. Mudlark. £25. Owen Matthews INVASION Russia’s bloody war and Ukraine’s...
An effort is underway to translate Jewish texts into Ukrainian for the first time. Three rabbis sat around a breakfast table in this city's Tsori Gilod Synagogue, discussing Russia's war on the country where they...
Transcript courtesy of Timothy Snyder Originally appeared @snyder.substack.com 14 March 2023 (This is the text of my briefing of The United Nations Security Council this morning, 14 March 2023, for a session called by the...
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.
