Ukrainian supreme court forbade the municipality of Lviv from going ahead with controversial plans for commemorating Jewish heritage sites. The Supreme Economic Court of Ukraine issued its ruling Wednesday against the city’s plans to design and build projects that would commemorate three Jewish sites instead of restoring them.
No longer just a World War II scenario, in the past weeks several hundred Jews from pro-Russian rebel Donetsk and Luhansk in eastern Ukraine have fled their war-torn cities with little other than the clothing on their backs. Their unlikely “displaced persons camp”? A Chabad facility for children in western Ukraine’s Zhitomir, a two-hour drive west of Kiev.
Israel’s immigrant absorption ministry on 3 August 2014 approved additional payments to repatriates from Ukraine. The funds to help Jews who repatriated to Israel from Ukraine in 2014 are in addition to monies already allocated...
Back in the days when Jews could travel without having to go anywhere — one minute a house was in Poland, the next in Russia — they lived in places called shtetls, defined neither by physical size nor population, possessing mysterious features both urban and rural.
Ukraine's ambassador to Israel: Countries facing and fighting the evil of terrorism - Israel by Hamas, and Ukraine by pro-Russian terrorists, including those who downed Flight MH17 - should support each other.
The 333-square-meter piece of street art features 24 historical, cultural and folk figures that belong to Ukrainian, Russian and Jewish history and culture.
The Jewish governor of a large Ukrainian city has promised to return a former mosque to the hands of the Muslim community.
Haaretz correspondent Judy Maltz was a recipient of the 2014 B’nai B’rith World Center Award for Journalism Recognizing Excellence in Diaspora Reportage on Sunday. Keynote speaker Economy Minister Naftali Bennett acknowledged that the typical Israeli pays little attention to the Diaspora, praising B’nai B’rith’s efforts to change this.
On June 20, 2014, the legendary Ukrainian rock band Vopli Vidopliassova performed in Israel during a tour dedicated to the release of their tenth album, Wonderful World. The band played their only concert in Tel...
Israel’s Keter Publishing House has published a Hebrew-language edition of Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin by the renowned American historian Timothy Snyder. Praised internationally, the book has received numerous awards. Bloodlands has been translated into twenty-eight languages and...
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.
