Many American Jews are convinced that Ukrainians are extremely antisemitic, based on what they heard from their grandparents about pogroms and Ukrainian collaborators with the Nazis. It continually amazes me that people draw firm conclusions...
How famous Zionist leader rebutted Putin’s anti-Ukrainian falsifications — more than a century ago By Shimon Briman Vladimir Putin launched a criminal war against Ukraine in 2022 and has continued this bloody aggression into 2024,...
For nearly two years, Ukrainians of all ethnic backgrounds and religious faiths have courageously defended their country and democracy during a criminal war waged by Russia. As we celebrate the holidays, let us remember that...
Israel's National Authority for Yiddish Culture bestowed a Lifetime Achievement Award for 2023 on Wolf Moskovich, Professor Emeritus of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and member of the Board of Directors of the Canadian charitable...
On the evening of 11 October 2023, I was anxiously following the news on various channels. It was the fifth day of the war in Israel, the fifth day after the most brutal attack by...
The Kyiv International Institute of Sociology (KMIS) has presented the findings of a new survey. In the Israel-Hamas war, the preponderant majority of Ukrainians — 69 percent — sympathizes with Israel. Only 1 percent sympathizes...
Mr. Levy has long been a friend and champion of Ukraine. He calls Russia a terrorist state, advocates for its expulsion from the UN Security Council, and defends Ukraine's membership in NATO. On December 6,...
This is an edited, abbreviated version of my phone conversation with Evgeniya Goldman on Friday, December 1, and subsequent text messages. Her husband, Alexander Goldman, is a prisoner of war in Russian captivity. She and...
Ukrainian World Congress (UWC) President Paul Grod joined the World Jewish Congress (WJC) in honoring former Canadian Prime Minister Brian Mulroney at the annual Theodor Herzl Award. It is the organization's highest honor to recognize...
David Milman of the Brodsky Central Synagogue in Kyiv became the first official Jewish military chaplain in the history of Ukraine. The first and so far the only one in the ranks of the Armed...
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.
