Borsch. Nalysnyky. Daruny. | Borsht. Blintses. Latkes. Varied names. But the same food. And a shared heritage. On 28 May 2015, the Ukrainian Jewish Encounter launched a groundbreaking traveling community exhibition entitled "A Journey through the...
Welcome to Ukrainian Jewish Heritage on Nash Holos Ukrainian Roots Radio. I’m Peter Bejger. Imagine everything that is dear to you in life has been lost. Imagine your world destroyed. And imagine if you can...
In this episode of the podcast “Encounters” we talk about the work of the “Israeli Friends of Ukraine.” The project “Encounters” is produced with the support of the Canadian fund Ukrainian Jewish Encounter. Iryna Slavinska:...
Welcome to Ukrainian Jewish Heritage on Nash Holos Ukrainian Roots Radio. I’m Peter Bejger. As we discussed before in a previous segment, a recent conference held in the Ukrainian cities of Kyiv and Lviv in...
An eclectic group of dignitaries, academics and interested individuals gathered on August 4 at the St. John’s Institute in Edmonton for the opening reception of A Journey through the Ukrainian-Jewish Encounter: From Antiquity to 1914,...
Vasyl Ovsienko is a philologist who was a teacher and took part in distributing “samvydav” (self-published material illegal under Soviet law, editor’s note). He was a long-term Soviet political prisoner and spent many years imprisoned...
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.
