In a special report from Kyiv, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky addresses AJC Global Forum 2022 on the ongoing Russian war of aggression, including updates from the frontlines, as well as an appeal to the international...
The Ukrainian Institute London, in partnership with the Imperial War Museum, recently hosted the world’s foremost historian of Ukraine, UJE board member Professor Serhii Plokhy. The discussion explored the historical roots of Russia’s war against...
After three months, the historical record is now clear by Alexander J. Motyl May 23, 2022 Ukraine's military intelligence service recently released a disturbing transcript of an intercepted telephone conversation between a 20-year-old Russian soldier,...
Branding the Azov Battalion as 'neo-Nazi' long after it shed its far-right origins is part of a deafening corruption of public discourse. By Vladislav Davidzon May 17, 2022 The Ukrainian port town of Mariupol is...
At a time when the world is experiencing the greatest security crisis since World War II, when a nuclear power and a permanent member of the UN Security Council is waging a regional war in...
May 23, 2022 By Anne Applebaum The expression off-ramp has a pleasing physicality, evoking a thing that can be constructed out of concrete and steel. But at the moment, anyone talking about an off-ramp in...
Yaakov Dov Bleich Chief Rabbi of Ukraine, and UJE Advisory Board member spoke with iStandWithUkraine about sensitive issues related to Russia’s war against Ukraine. “He openly answers questions that many choose conveniently to avoid but...
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...
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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 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.
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.
