Most instances of normal co-existence and everyday interchange between Jews and Ukrainians would not have been recorded and therefore escaped the attention of historians. However, documents relating to the economic sphere, for the city of Lviv for example, reveal a range of mutually beneficial relationships. Like other ethnic groups in Lviv (Armenians, Germans, Poles), Jews and Ukrainians used the services of lenders and credit unions, including services provided by religious institutions. There are documented instances of Ukrainians authorizing Jews to pay Ukrainians' debts; Jewish medics treating Ukrainians, who in return helped build houses for Jews; Jews from small Galician towns borrowing money from Ukrainian merchants; and Ukrainians from small towns entering into credit relationships with Jewish bankers in Lviv.

Looking at Ukrainian-Jewish relations during the early modern period from a gender perspective, historian Martha Bohachevsky-Chomiak observed that Jews were the "foreigners" Ukrainian women would be most likely to meet, especially in western Ukraine. Residing primarily in rural areas, Ukrainian women would encounter Jews in the nearby small towns on market days, either when selling their produce in the central square or visiting the surrounding Jewish-owned shops. They also frequently came into individual contact with Jewish women as neighbours in both urban and rural settings. Though their lifestyles varied considerably, Jewish and Ukrainian women shared a vital feature, which Bohachevsky-Chomiak identifies as "pragmatic feminism." That feature was manifest in their role as primary handlers of the family budget and their involvement in the grassroots life of their respective communities — a potential basis for common interests and cooperation.