Our colleague Shimon Briman, an Israeli historian and journalist, has given numerous interviews on Ukrainian television explaining Israel’s stance regarding Russia’s unprovoked war against Ukraine. We share one such interview with our readers to help...
Ukraine’s president speaks with Scott Pelley of the America news program 60 Minutes about Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, and recently uncovered alleged war crimes in the Kyiv suburb of Bucha. (May be unavailable in some...
Russia's unprovoked war against Ukraine has rightly resulted in global outrage. Like millions of others around the world, we at the Ukrainian Jewish Encounter have been distraught and heartbroken after seeing the destruction Russian forces...
By Sławomir Sierakowski Originally appeared @Euromaidenpress.com In an interview with the Polish magazine Polityka, prominent American scholar of Central and Eastern Europe Professor Timothy Snyder explains Putin’s ultimate goal, why Russia’s war against Ukraine is...
The Azov Battalion — who is Ukraine's far-right group fighting Russia? The front-line warriors even claimed a successful kill of a Russian general last week. They are either heroes or villains depending on whom you...
Volodymyr Zelensky answered questions from Russian media representatives from the Zygar YouTube channel, the Dozhd TV channel, the Medusa portal, and the Kommersant and Novaya Gazeta publications. (In Russian with English subtitles)
A Holocaust memorial near the Ukrainian city of Kharkiv has been damaged in Russian bombardments, government officials said Saturday. Images posted on social media showed a wrecked menorah monument at the Drobytsky Yar site. Ukraine’s...
March 22, 2022 Two rival Orthodox clerics, a Greek Catholic priest, a Jewish rabbi, and an imam didn’t walk into a bar. Instead, they starred in a video appeal released on March 16. The message...
March 22, 2022 The war in Ukraine has reached a turning point. The Russian troops that invaded the country from the north, south, and east are now scarcely moving. They have targeted schools, hospitals, apartment...
LVIV, Ukraine — Ukraine is once again at the center of a potentially global conflict. World War I, as the historian Dominic Lieven put it, "turned on the fate of Ukraine." World War II, according...
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.
