Borscht, one of the favorite dishes of both athletes and spectators at the Olympic Games, is not actually Russian in origin. The soup, made bright red by its base of beets, is Ukrainian (and the...
The Ukrainian poet from New York Vasyl Makhno visited Israel 9-19 June 2014. Miriam Feyga Bunimovich on behalf ofUkrainian Jewish Encounter talks with the poet about his impressions of the journey. Vasyl Makhno in Jerusalem....
Listen to the latest installment of “Ukrainian Jewish Heritage” by Vancouver, Canada's Nash Holos Ukrainian Roots Radio, a UJE partner. This segment features Lidia Kotliarevska, who rescued Jews during the Nazi occupation of Dnipropetrovsk. The...
Listen to the latest installment of “Ukrainian Jewish Heritage” by Vancouver, Canada's Nash Holos Ukrainian Roots Radio, a UJE partner. This segment discusses the Tkuma Institue for Holocaust Studies in Dnipropetrovsk, Ukraine. The program, as...
Vasyl Makhno, an acclaimed Ukrainian poet whose work has been widely celebrated in Ukraine, Eastern Europe, and the United States, toured Israel 9-19 June 2014, visiting Tel Aviv, Haifa, Acre, Safed, and Jerusalem. On 16...
LONDON—“We stood there together with Ukrainians, Crimean Tatars, Armenians, and others as a part of one fighting nation.” With this evocation of ethnic and religious diversity united in solidarity, Ukrainian Jewish leader Josef Zissels delivered...
Rabbi Meir Bruk, the leader of the Russian-speaking Jewish community at the Jewish Center of Brighton Beach in New York, outlines several important points in the present situation in Ukraine and Russia and its relation...
Josef Zissels, a former Soviet political dissident, Vice-President of the World Jewish Congress, Chairman of the Vaad (Association of Jewish Organizations and Communities of Ukraine), Chairman of the Euro-Asian Jewish Congress, Freedom Prize, and Order...
The popular Ukrainian folk ballad Vziav Bi Ya Banduru (I’d Rather Take a Bandura) represents one of several shortened versions of an original poem written by the Ukrainian poet Mykhailo Petrenko (1817-1862). It tells the...
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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 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.
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.
