Nobel Laureate Prof. Roald Hoffmann is celebrating his 85th birthday this week by giving a gift to Ukrainian schoolchildren. The famous Jewish scientist from Cornell University in the United States was saved during the Holocaust,...
One of the Kremlin's most common disinformation narratives to justify its devastating war against the people of Ukraine is the lie that Russia is pursuing the "denazification" of Ukraine. Russian President Vladimir Putin has referred to Ukraine's democratically elected...
President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine spoke via video link with Israeli students at the invitation of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. This was the Ukrainian leader's second speech to Israelis, following the first one that...
UJE Board Member Paul Robert Magocsi appeared on Zoom In with David Matlin on Israel's i24News on 14 June 2022. He provided a historical framework to understand Ukrainian statehood in Russia's unprovoked war against Ukraine....
Following a powerful message from Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, AJC CEO David Harris speaks about the need for the U.S. Jewish community to redouble their efforts to support Ukraine. American Jewish Committee (AJC) has stood...
In a special report from Kyiv, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky addresses AJC Global Forum 2022 on the ongoing Russian war of aggression, including updates from the frontlines, as well as an appeal to the international...
The Ukrainian Institute London, in partnership with the Imperial War Museum, recently hosted the world’s foremost historian of Ukraine, UJE board member Professor Serhii Plokhy. The discussion explored the historical roots of Russia’s war against...
After three months, the historical record is now clear by Alexander J. Motyl May 23, 2022 Ukraine's military intelligence service recently released a disturbing transcript of an intercepted telephone conversation between a 20-year-old Russian soldier,...
Branding the Azov Battalion as 'neo-Nazi' long after it shed its far-right origins is part of a deafening corruption of public discourse. By Vladislav Davidzon May 17, 2022 The Ukrainian port town of Mariupol is...
At a time when the world is experiencing the greatest security crisis since World War II, when a nuclear power and a permanent member of the UN Security Council is waging a regional war in...
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.
