In the village of Rafalivka in the northern Rivne region of Ukraine, a group of Ukrainian residents on their own initiative have conducted a community clean-up of the abandoned Jewish cemetery. Stepan Kilyushyk, the presbyter...
People in Romania, Lithuania, and Armenia are least willing to accept Jews as their fellow citizens Only 5% of Ukrainians would not like to have Jews as their fellow citizens. This is the lowest level...
Borys Filatov, who is in his third year as the head of the city administration of Dnipro, was the only guest from Ukraine at the world forum of mayors in Jerusalem in February 2018. The...
The Israeli Minister of Diaspora Affairs Naftali Bennett (he is also the Minister of Education) presented at the end of January 2018 a new system for monitoring antisemitism on the Internet—the Antisemitism Cyber Monitoring System....
A report released by Israel’s Ministry of Diaspora, published ahead of International Holocaust Remembrance Day, calls Ukraine a country where antisemitism is growing. The report has been circulated on social media, especially the notion that...
The Government of Israel has issued new twenty- and fifty-shekel banknotes, having replaced two natives of Ukraine with two cultural figures also connected with Ukraine. The poet Rachel replaced Moshe Sharett (1894-1965), the first Foreign...
During his official visit to Israel, Ukraine’s Minister of Foreign Affairs Pavlo Klimkin had meetings on 26 and 27 November with the top leaders of the State of Israel, including: President Reuven Rivlin, Prime Minister...
Ex-prime minister of Ukraine and leader of the People’s Front party Arsenii Yatseniuk, whose unofficial visit to Israel ended on 26 October 2017, was given a warm welcome. The politician, who does not currently hold...
Source: The Odessa Review The newest installment of The Odessa Review is substantively different from all our previous ones for a key reason: while our past issues have all been dedicated to the society, art,...
Source: Hromadske International In much of the global Jewish community, Ukraine is often stereotyped as a country of pogromists and antisemites. To some Ukrainians, Jews were responsible for communism. But the Odessa Review, a Ukrainian,...
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.
