The VYSHYVANKA FEST 2025 festival was held with great success in Ashkelon, southern Israel's largest city, which is adjacent to the Gaza Strip and has repeatedly been subjected to rocket attacks by terrorists. Yevhen Korniychuk,...
Professor Paul Robert Magocsi — Ukraine: A History Course. The Ukrainian Jewish Encounter is pleased to present a lecture series by Paul Robert Magocsi titled Ukraine: A History Course. Magocsi recorded 45 lectures in 2023...
[Editor’s note: Shavout in 2025 begins in the Diaspora at sundown on Sunday, 1 June 2025 and ends at nightfall on Tuesday, 3 June 2025.] In this episode of the Encounters program, we will discuss...
The female duo of Anna and Angelina Zaval'sky, known as The Alibi Sisters, has been shining in the Ukrainian-Jewish musical scene for five years. Their songs in Yiddish and Ukrainian captivate with charm and melody,...
Professor Paul Robert Magocsi — Ukraine: A History Course. The Ukrainian Jewish Encounter is pleased to present a lecture series by Paul Robert Magocsi titled Ukraine: A History Course. Magocsi recorded 45 lectures in 2023...
Our conversation with the Ukrainian historian Olga Radchenko centers on her latest Ukrainian-language book, Jewish Refugees in Ukraine, 1939–1941. We discuss the number of Jewish refugees, where they hailed from, and how many of them...
This year, the Book Land festival took place from 24 to 27 April at the National Complex "Expocenter of Ukraine," Ukraine's largest exhibition center, located in Kyiv. For the third consecutive year, the Ukrainian Jewish...
Professor Paul Robert Magocsi — Ukraine: A History Course. The Ukrainian Jewish Encounter is pleased to present a lecture series by Paul Robert Magocsi titled Ukraine: A History Course. Magocsi recorded 45 lectures in 2023...
Bernard-Henri Lévy, the French writer and public intellectual, and Lina Kostenko, the renowned Ukrainian poet and former Soviet dissident, were honored with the Andrey Sheptytsky Award at a ceremony held on 30 April 2025 in...
The sealing of a critical minerals deal and a Capitol Hill event honoring dissidents show that hope remains for Ukraine's cause. Bernard-Henri Levy was impassioned. "Ukraine is not losing," he declared. "It is winning!" Together...
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.
