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On 23 September 2021, the Ukrainian parliament passed Law №5109 "On Prevention and Counteraction to Antisemitism in Ukraine." Speaker of the Verkhovna Rada Dmytro Razumkov signed the law on 29 September, the very day that...
On the eve of Ukrainian Independence Day, bus stops in the Israeli city of Rishon LeTsiyon have been decorated with posters displaying views of several Ukrainian cities and best wishes for the holiday in Hebrew...
In the leadup to the 80th anniversary commemoration of the Babyn Yar tragedy, the Ukrainian World Congress (UWC) has pledged over $20M to support the realization of a National Babyn Yar Museum and Memorial Complex...
Starting on 11 May 2021, cities in southern and central Israel were subjected to a barrage of nearly 4,000 rockets fired from Gaza. Politicians, civic figures, and the Ukrainian media were not indifferent and reacted...
To friends and readers around the world, we wish you a very happy holiday season and a wonderful new year. Stay healthy and safe. We will return to this space on 18 January 2021.
The sale of masterpieces of Jewish jewelry from Lviv and Galicia will take place in New York on 17 December 2020. The two gilt silver Torah shields (height: 18–20 cm), date to the late eighteenth...
Why did the "melting pot" model not catch on in Canada; how does bilingualism function officially; and what is the relationship between the Ukrainian and Jewish communities in the Land of Maple Leaf? These and...
Hryhorii Arshynov, a force for the preservation of Ukraine’s Jewish heritage, an engineer, a builder, a businessman, philanthropist, and deputy of the Ostroh City Council in Volyn, has died. Hryhorii Arshynov contracted the coronavirus on...
After ten years of successful work in Israel, Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary Ambassador of Ukraine, Hennadiy Nadolenko, has left the State of Israel. The period of his work from 2010 to 2020 coincided with the terms...
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.
