Aleksandr Zadov recalls the last time war forced him out of his home in Donetsk. The year was 1941, and Nazi troops were occupying the eastern Ukrainian city. He and his parents escaped under the cover of darkness to Kazakhstan.
The event was organized by the Israeli group of activists, 'Israel Supports Ukraine'. The main purpose of the event is to raise the awareness of Israel’s indigenous population to the events in Ukraine and to...
This follows from the memo issued by the Prime Minister Office of Israel (PMO) on September 15, 2014, which contains a list of countries that present a real danger to Israelis. Per the PMO's warning:...
Alexander Feldman, a deputy in Ukraine’s parliament, was interviewed by Israel’s main Russian-language evening news program “Day” on Sept. 4, 2014. The parliamentarian told Channel 9 that Ukraine will resolve all military problems, as Israel...
The Israeli Deputy Minister of Internal Affairs Faina Kirshenbaum, the head of the department for population registration Amnon Ben-Ami, the Ambassador of the State of Israel in Ukraine Elie Belotzerkovsky, deputy ambassador Itzhak Kagan, and...
The Jewish Agency for Israel (JAFI) has established Ulpan classes in Dnipropetrovsk for the intensive study of the Hebrew language. Ulpan is intended for refugees from East Ukraine, and functions within the center of temporary...
Rabbi Pinchas Vishedski and Garik Zylberbord had been close for years. Zylberbord was one of Vishedski’s earliest friends and supporters when the rabbi first arrived in Donetsk, Ukraine, in 1993. The two remained in close contact as the conflict in the eastern part of the country, which began back in February, burned into war and forced the rabbi to flee to Kiev just two weeks ago.
An anti-Jewish publication by Vladimir Matveev entitled Zionism and its role in the organization of the Euromaidan and the split of Ukraine has been published in Moscow with a print run of one thousand copies....
Veteran peace and human rights advocate Larry Lerner came home from a mission to Ukraine on Aug. 25 with some optimistic news. “We got the feeling that antisemitism had dropped considerably in Ukraine,” he said two days after his return.
The Deputy Prime Minister of Ukraine Volodymyr Groysman held a meeting on 19 August 2014 with a delegation of Israeli officials who arrived in Kyiv for a three-day visit. As reported by the IzRus portal...
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.
