We invite you to view the award ceremony announcing the winner of the unique book award, Encounter: The Ukrainian-Jewish Literary Prize, held on 11 September 2026 at the Lviv International BookForum Festival. This year, the...
Ola Hnatiuk: "The past directly impacts the present. It can be explained in the simplest terms: we have run from the past for so long that the time has finally come to confront it and...
Serhiy Hirik: "The Nazis did not create antisemitism from scratch. It existed practically everywhere Jews lived and even where they did not" Serhiy Hirik, a PhD in History, specializes in the history of Ukrainian Jews...
A massive wave of Jewish pilgrims from around the world, primarily from Israel, broke all previous records in September 2026. Why is this happening despite the wartime dangers in Ukraine, and how did Putin's propaganda...
Vladyslava Moskalets: "We need to allow ourselves to explore not only Ukrainian history, but also Jewish, Polish, Armenian, and other histories. After all, they are all part of Ukraine's history" Vladyslava Moskalets is a historian,...
Vladyslava Moskalets With the advent of smartphones and Netflix, we have been gradually losing the canon of popular culture — the films and books that everyone knows, with recognizable characters and catchy quotes. Our tastes...
Ukrainian Jewish Encounter (UJE), a Canadian charitable non-profit organization, and Ukraine's NGO Publishers' Forum (Lviv, Ukraine) are pleased to announce that Dnipro: Biography of a Great City in the Steppe written by Andrii Portnov and...
The screening of a recent film by director Mstyslav Chernov, 2000 Meters to Andriivka, was organized on 31 August 2026 by the Embassy of Ukraine in Israel and the "Created in Ukraine" initiative. The screening...
[Editor’s note: The annual Jewish pilgrimage to Uman, Ukraine, will take place around Rosh Hashanah, which in 2026 begins at sundown on Friday, 11 September and will conclude at nightfall on Sunday, 13 September. Thousands...
[Editor’s note: Sonya Kapinus’ book White Rabbits was shortlisted for Encounter: The Ukrainian-Jewish Literary Prize in 2025. The winner of the 2026 Encounter prize will be announced at the 33 Lviv International BookForum on 11...
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.
