A Jewish cemetery in Hlukhiv, Sumy Oblast in northeastern Ukraine was bombed on Sunday by Russian forces, Ukraine's Minister of Culture and Information Oleksander Tkacjenko wrote on Telegram. Jews from a 1918 pogrom are buried...
Maksym P., Senior Lieutenant of the Israel Defense Forces (Tzahal), had one and a half months left on his contract when Russia's invasion of Ukraine began. He had served for five years, and immediately considered...
Ukraine’s third president Viktor Yushchenko addressed the world to rally support for Ukraine on the sixty-third day of Russia’s full-scale military invasion. President Yushchenko called for the global community — friends of Ukraine everywhere — to...
Originally appeared in Ukrainian @Zbruc.eu April 2, 2022 Yaroslav Hrytsak As a historian of Ukraine, I have many contacts with Russian historians; like it or not, the histories of our two countries are interconnected. I...
An open letter signed by 17 Holocaust museums worldwide equates Russian violence to 'Holocaust by Bullets,' when Jewish people were 'shot and buried in a shallow grave' in Ukraine in WWII. Nearly 20 Holocaust museums spread...
Sunday, 3 April 2022, 12:55 Serhiy Sydorenko Originally appeared in Ukrainian @eurointegration.com. Marieluise Beck is a former parliamentarian of the German Bundestag and one of its most experienced members. She was elected to parliament in...
Another pertinent and engaging lecture by Henry Abramson. The lecture was delivered as part of the Touro Talks series from Touro University, on 6 April 2022.
CNN's Jake Tapper takes a deep dive into Ukraine's painful history of oppression by the Soviet Union and its impact on their fight today. He speaks to Myroslav Marynovych, vice-rector of the Ukrainian Catholic University...
Originally appeared in Russian @Dumskaya.net With the onset of large-scale Russian aggression, public life in Odesa has accelerated many times over. Volunteer, charitable, and creative projects have all gained momentum and are helping the city...
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...
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.
