By Peter Bejger As the winter season accelerates into its darkest moments, many cultures have developed holiday rituals to mark the passage of time and to place hope in the return of brighter days. A...
Welcome to Ukrainian Jewish Heritage on Nash Holos Ukrainian Roots Radio. I’m Peter Bejger. Today we will play a game with the alphabet. “A” is for aristocrat, someone who is privileged but also someone who...
The political scientist and cultural studies expert Taras Vozniak, editor-in-chief and founder of the independent culture journal Ji, is our guest on the program “Encounters.” Iryna Slavinska: How distinctive is Lviv’s multicultural environment? Taras Vozniak:...
The Ukrainian Jewish Encounter has been very active with several cultural initiatives in Ukraine and Canada this past autumn. The season started in early September with UJE at the 6th Annual International Poetry Festival Meridian...
“No harm will come to you here." Lilly Pohlman says she will remember these words till the end of her days. Along with the memory of a giant of a man gently reassuring her during...
By Peter Bejger The Ukrainian superstar vocalist, civil activist, and 2015 Yale World Fellow Svyatoslav “Slava” Vakarchuk drew a very large and lively crowd at the University of California, Berkeley on November 23, 2015 for...
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.
