The publication of a series of books supported by the Ukrainian Jewish Encounter have provoked vibrant debates and discussions in recent months as their authors and editors have appeared before engaged audiences at public venues...
“What do we do with this figure?” asks Amelia Glaser, professor of literature at the University of California, San Diego and editor of the UJE sponsored book, Stories of Khmelnytsky: Competing Literary Legacies of the 1648...
The Ukrainian Jewish Encounter undertook a global tour to promote books sponsored by the organization. Reports on events related to that tour will appear on UJE’s website. The following is a synopsis and full...
An announcement of an initiative from the Ukrainian Civic Group for the Restoration of the Activities of the Jewish Museum in Lviv The Jewish Museum in Lviv opened on 17 June 1934 in a Jewish...
The historian Ihor Shchupak, who heads the Tkuma Ukrainian Institute for Holocaust Studies, talks about the politicization of the Jewish movement, coexistence between Jews and Ukrainians, and national minorities in the policies of the Ukrainian...
Today we have a special story for our listeners, a story that transcends time and generations. A story from the heart. And a story that reminds us of the powerful role that memory plays in...
The Ukrainian Jewish Encounter was founded in 2008 with the goal of building stronger relations between Ukrainians and Jews, two peoples who for centuries lived side by side on the territory of what is modern-day...
Leading European public intellectual, philosopher, writer, and influential human rights activist Bernard-Henri Lévy spoke to an overflow audience at the Ukrainian Institute of America in Manhattan on Saturday evening, January 21. A champion of Ukraine’s...
We discuss a new book entitled Start-up Nation: The Story of Israel’s Economic Miracle, recently issued in Ukraine by Yakaboo Publishing. An interview with Oksana Forostyna. Oksana Forostyna: This is a book about the story...
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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.
