Leaders of Ukraine's Jewish community have come out strongly in support of the Kiev government in its conflict with Russia, rejecting Moscow's accusations that their country is now a hotbed of antisemitism.
Kiev Mayor Vitali Klitschko denounced antisemitism and Putin’s Russia during a speech to business leaders in Tel Aviv on Monday.
The mayor of the Ukrainian city of Lviv told participants at a Jewish learning conference that France has a bigger antisemitism problem than his country.
The Israel Journal of Foreign Affairs published in its May 2014 issue "The Ukrainian Crisis and the Jews: A Time for Hope or Despair", an article by political scientist and Swiss diplomat Simon Geissbühler: https://ukrainianjewishencounter.org/media/simon-geissbuhler.pdf....
Russian propaganda describing the Ukrainian government as fascist took a hit on Monday when the far-right Svoboda party apparently failed to maintain its place in national politics by receiving less than the 5-percent threshold required to enter the legislature.
Andrey Boltushenko, a security guard of the "Menora" Jewish center, was buried on October 20, 2014 in the village of Peschanka in the Dnipropetrovsk region. He fought against terrorists and Russian troops as a soldier...
The National Coalition Supporting Eurasian Jewry, a Washington, D.C.-based non-profit group dedicated to empowering and ensuring the security of Jews in the former Soviet Union and Eastern Europe, has noted that antisemitism is not a...
A disturbing example of the exploitation of Jewish themes for anti-Ukrainian propaganda in Russia can be found in a recent provincial theatre production that has drawn national attention. The director Mikhail Sales has staged the...
Igor Kolomoisky is not a man to trifle with niceties. The third-richest citizen in Ukraine – and suddenly one of the most influential politicians in the torn country – enjoys discomfiting people who meet him for the first time.
Despite media reports, there has been no surge of antisemitic attacks in Odessa, local Jewish leaders say. Reports in Pravda, Izvestia and other Russian news outlets last week painted a picture of an Ukrainian Jewish community terrorized by members of the ultra-nationalist Pravy Sektor (Right Sector) movement.
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.
