A NEW Ukraine was born a year ago in the pro-European protests that helped to drive President Viktor F. Yanukovych from power.
Welcome to Ukrainian Jewish Heritage ... a radio series on Nash Holos Ukrainian Roots Radio ... sponsored by the Ukrainian Jewish Encounter based in Toronto, Ontario. January 27th marks the anniversary of the liberation of...
When Russian propaganda directed to the West tried to present the Ukrainian Maidan as an assembly of fascists and antisemites, the Ukrainian Jewish community stood up to protect the democratic movement. Thousands of speeches, articles,...
Bernard-Henri Lévy, writer, philosopher, and a personal friend of the President of France, explains why Europe has betrayed Ukraine and dissects the myths of Vladimir Putin Philosopher, writer, and journalist Bernard-Henri Lévy is one of...
The sanctions imposed on Russia by the US and Europe for its interventions in Ukraine have worked much faster and inflicted much more damage on the Russian economy than anybody could have expected.
The Kharkiv branch of the Zionist youth organization "Ha-Shomer Ha-Tsair" shot the short film So. Dom. Bass. The movie was screened at a festival of Jewish short cinema in Minsk, Belarus on December 13-14, 2014....
Hebrew-language video reportage by Israel Prize laureate journalist Jacob Ahimeir, who was a guest at the Limmud FSU conference in Lviv, Ukraine in November 2014, juxtaposed the current war in eastern Ukraine with the placid...
The Little Stage Youth Theatre in Dnipropetrovsk (directed by Medina Dolgov) staged the one-act play Children of the Golem, an adaptation of the work by the Israeli writer Victoria Orti (Beer-Sheva). The premiere took place...
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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.
