When war broke out in Ukraine, thousands of people sought refuge in Poland, and a small Jewish community came to their aid. Terence McKenna, a reporter for the CBC, recently saw first-hand how past experiences...
Victoria Amelina, the Ukrainian writer and Russian war crimes researcher, died on 1 July 2023 of wounds sustained during Russia's criminal missile attack on the eastern Ukrainian city of Kramatorsk on 27 June. She was...
Victoria Amelina, the award-winning Ukrainian writer and war crimes researcher, was laid to rest in her native Lviv on 5 July 2023. She died on 1 July 2023 from wounds sustained during a criminal Russian...
The Ukrainian Jewish Encounter (UJE) systematically cooperates with Ukraine's state and local authorities. This year, Ukraine's National Television and Radio Broadcasting Council initiated the creation of a special expert group to develop criteria for classifying...
John Simpson An impressive account of the origins and early stages of Russia's invasion of Ukraine At the time of writing this review, we still await the big Ukrainian counter-offensive. On its success or failure...
By Robert P Baird Last September, seven months after Russia launched a full-scale invasion of Ukraine, the Yale historian Timothy Snyder took a 16-hour train ride from Poland to Kyiv. Snyder knew the city well:...
Zofia Radzikowska, formerly Professor of Law at the Jagiellonian University, talks about her unique experience of helping Ukrainians in Kraków, the fight against communism in Poland, and her own experience of surviving genocide. Kraków was...
UJE wins at the 8th Web Excellence Awards Competition The Web Excellence Awards, a leading international interactive web awards competition, recently announced winners highlighting last year's "best of the best" in web design and development....
On 31 May 2023 the US-based Anti-Defamation League (ADL) published a survey of antisemitic attitudes in Europe. The media instantly started pumping out headlines stating that the ADL survey paints Ukraine as being more antisemitic...
(Video in Ukrainian, English transcript below) [Editor’s note: Although the video below contains certain historical inaccuracies and idealization of Ukrainian-Jewish relations, we are sharing it because it encourages interethnic and interconfessional understanding, counteracts stereotypes, and...
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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 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.
As Ukraine defends its very existence against Russia, the Ukrainian Jewish Encounter Timeline serves to counter the malicious and false narratives about Ukraine and its history. The Timeline demonstrates that Ukraine is home to diverse peoples and, for centuries, one of the world’s oldest and largest Jewish communities.
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.
