Within the last 450 years of the major Jewish presence in Ukraine, only 16 to 20 at most were marked by periods of violence.
[Editor’s note: The following is an updated version of an opinion piece by UJE Board Member Paul Robert Magocsi that originally appeared in The New Pathway on September 12, 2019 and The Ukrainian Weekly on...
Ms. Tokarczuk was awarded the prize "for a narrative imagination that with encyclopedic passion represents the crossing of boundaries as a form of life." The award had been postponed from last year following a scandal...
IN HER ENGAGING memoir of 20th-century literary life, The Kindness of Strangers, Salka Viertel, a leading Austrian actress, recounts her first American encounter. In 1928, she and her husband, writer-director Berthold Viertel, had been invited to dinner in Berlin by a visiting columnist, Dorothy Thompson, who happened to be the fiancée of Sinclair Lewis.
To the participants of the ceremony to commemorate Holocaust victims in Bukovina Ladies and Gentlemen! The Holocaust. When we hear this word, it conjures up images of horror, pain, and despair on the black-and-white film...
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu met with Israel's bloggers on the evening of 30 July 2019 in the informal setting of the Yudale Bar in Rishon Le-Zion. Only 8 of the 25 participants were able...
The Israeli-Ukrainian educational forum "EduMission-2019" was an important event for the intensification of direct cooperation between the universities of the two countries. Representatives of eight Ukrainian universities met with their Israeli counterparts at the end...
This week, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu appointed attorney Ariel Bulstein to be his special adviser on immigrants from the countries of the former USSR. This appointment took place for the first time after a...
A few weeks ago, I participated in a fascinating panel on historical revisionism and how it has impacted various ethnic and racialized communities.
More than 500 leaders from Israel, the United States, Europe and Ukraine participated in the inaugural Kyiv Jewish Forum, organised by the Jewish Confederation of Ukraine (JCU) on 5-7 May, 2019. The success of the event, the first international Jewish-interest conference in Ukraine, illustrates the renaissance of the Ukrainian Jewish community and its role in the global Jewry.
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.
