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    Ukrainian Jewish Encounter (UJE) recognized with prestigious web award

    Posted On: June 1st, 2023
    Posted In: Press Releases

    UJE wins at the 8th Web Excellence Awards Competition The Web Excellence Awards, a leading international interactive web awards competition, recently announced winners highlighting last year's "best of the best" in web design and development....

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    Antisemitism: numbers games against the backdrop of Russia's war on Ukraine

    Posted On: May 31st, 2023
    Posted In: Antisemitism

    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...

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    Jews and Ukrainians: The history of Ukraine according to Taras Shevchenko

    Posted On: May 11th, 2023
    Posted In: Ukrainian-Jewish Relations

    (Video in Ukrainian, English transcript below) [Editor’s note: Although the video below contains certain historical inaccuracies and idealization of Ukrainian-Jewish relations, we are sharing it because it encourages interethnic and interconfessional understanding, counteracts stereotypes, and...

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    The address of the President of Ukraine on the occasion of the Day of Remembrance and Victory over Nazism in the Second World War of 1939-1945

    Posted On: May 9th, 2023
    Posted In: Russia–Ukraine War

    (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,...

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    How Russia tried to destroy Yitzhak Rabin’s family village in Ukraine

    Posted On: April 17th, 2023
    Posted In: Russia–Ukraine War

    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...

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    The first Passover haggadah in Ukrainian marks a community's break with Russia

    Posted On: April 12th, 2023
    Posted In: Jewish Life in Ukraine, Russia–Ukraine War

    (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...

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    Turning the clock on history

    Posted On: March 27th, 2023
    Posted In: Book Reviews, Russia–Ukraine War

    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...

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    Ukrainian Jews have historically spoken Russian. The war is changing that.

    Posted On: March 22nd, 2023
    Posted In: Russia–Ukraine War

    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...

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    Timothy Snyder: Playing the Victim, Testimony to the United Nations Security Council on Russian hate speech

    Posted On: March 16th, 2023
    Posted In: Russia–Ukraine War

    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...

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    How Russian fake news about Ukraine is created and exposed in Israel

    Posted On: March 15th, 2023
    Posted In: Russia–Ukraine War

    In early March 2023, fake information about an alleged "ban on the Ukrainian flag in Israel" began to spread throughout Russian media, pro-Russian media in various countries, and social media groups. According to this fake...

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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.

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    Encounter: The Ukrainian-Jewish Literary Prize  

    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."

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    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.

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