Agnon House's Jeffrey Saks discusses the situation in Ukraine with Natalia Feduschak, Director of Communications at Ukrainian Jewish Encounter (UJE), and Vasyl Makhno, a Ukrainian poet, playwright and essayist. They discuss the pull of Agnon's...
The American rabbi living in Poland had planned to help Ukrainians — Jews and non-Jews — but from the safety of Polish soil. But this week, heading to the border to distribute food and medicine,...
Dear Friends, We have been watching the Russian invasion of Ukraine with horror and grave concern. To demonstrate our support for our Ukrainian-Canadian neighbours and the people of Ukraine, B'nai Brith Canada, The Centre for...
Students from the Ukrainian Catholic University in Lviv discuss what it means to them to live in an independent Ukraine. March 2020. Related: Here Is How It Feels to Watch Russia Wage War in Ukraine
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By David Harris March 9, 2022 Russian President Vladimir Putin justified his current invasion of Ukraine by asserting the country needed to be denazified. It was a rather odd assertion, to say the least. Ukraine...
The Institute for National Security Studies conducted a meeting on 8 March 2022 between the Ukrainian Ambassador to Israel, Yevhen Korniychuk, and the Institute's researchers, chaired by the Chairman of the Board, Sir Frank Lowy,...
Henry Abramson briefly discusses the election of Volodomyr Zelensky in the larger context of Ukrainian-Jewish history. Recorded on 4 March 2022 with hope for a speedy return to peace for Ukraine and its people.
“It’s very serious, it’s not a movie,” Volodymyr Zelensky told CNN from deep inside his military command-and-control bunker in Kyiv. "I’m not iconic, I think Ukraine is iconic." Read more @Tablet
Considering the threat on the lives or academics in Ukraine, and in a show of solidarity, the Hebrew University is offering academic hosting for Ukrainian academic staff and students of higher degrees. Ukrainian academic faculty...
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.
