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    Taking stock of 2017: a year in review for the Ukrainian Jewish Encounter

    Posted On: December 22nd, 2017
    Posted In: UJE Initiatives, Outreach

    The motto of the Ukrainian Jewish Encounter proclaims, “Our stories are incomplete without each other.”  At conferences, festivals, book presentations, and other events in which UJE took part, 2017 proved repeatedly that there is more...

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    From the Pacific to the Black Sea: UJE expands the global Ukrainian-Jewish dialogue at Limmud FSU

    Posted On: December 22nd, 2017
    Posted In: UJE Initiatives, Limmud FSU, Outreach

    In 2006, Soviet Jewish activist Chaim Chessler visited Britain for a conference held by Limmud, an organization dedicated to Jewish learning. He immediately understood that this volunteer-driven group could be molded to meet the needs...

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    Two views on Ukrainian-Jewish relations: Franko and Jabotinsky

    Posted On: December 22nd, 2017
    Posted In: The Odessa Review, Literature, Sponsored Projects, Other Programs, Culture

    Both men hailed from the territory of modern Ukraine. Both were influential journalists, writers, and thinkers during their lifetimes. Both remained inspiring figures for generations to come. But they were different in one distinct way....

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    Alti Rodal: Hasidism on Ukrainian Lands

    Posted On: December 22nd, 2017
    Posted In: Jews on Ukrainian Lands, Culture, History, Religion

    Alti Rodal, co-director of the Ukrainian Jewish Encounter, spoke recently at San Francisco’s Jewish Community Library about “Hasidism on Ukrainian Lands: Social Aspects and Teachings.” In this engaging and thought-provoking presentation, given on November 19,...

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    Limmud: Leading a Jewish revival in the former USSR

    Posted On: December 20th, 2017
    Posted In: UJE Initiatives, The Odessa Review, Limmud FSU, Outreach

    The Jewish educational charity Limmud first saw the light of day 37 years ago in the United Kingdom. Since then, it has grown into a phenomenon and revitalized Jewish learning and culture on four continents...

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    Russian Jewish author chronicles wartime horrors in Austrian-ruled Galicia

    Posted On: December 20th, 2017
    Posted In: Nash Holos, Sponsored Projects, Audio/Visual Media, Culture, Ethnography

    “I saw that that the windows of these ruined houses were stuffed with rags or boarded up. In these unheated kennels were human beings, whole families, starving, usually sick because all kinds of epidemics were...

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    Jewish Katerynoslav: The history of a forgotten city

    Posted On: December 18th, 2017
    Posted In: Jews on Ukrainian Lands, Hromadske Radio, Sponsored Projects, Audio/Visual Media, History

    Today on the program Encounters we are discussing Katerynoslav [Formerly also called Dnipropetrovsk, and today Dnipro—Ed.] and the fact that one in every three residents of this city was once Jewish. Today only a few...

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    Kateryna Babkina’s “Ask the Same for Everybody”

    Posted On: December 16th, 2017
    Posted In: Book Fairs/Festivals, Publications, UJE Initiatives, Sponsored Projects, Outreach

    Ukrainian poet Kateryna Babkina was on a trip to Israel promoting her work when the remarkable happened. An admirer of her poetry, translator Anton Paperny, had independently been translating her work from the Ukrainian into...

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    The poetry of Kateryna Babkina has been translated into Hebrew in Israel

    Posted On: December 15th, 2017
    Posted In: Hromadske Radio, Literature, Sponsored Projects, Audio/Visual Media, Culture

    Kateryna Babkina’s poetry collection Dlia vsikh odnakove poprosy [Ask the Same for Everybody] will come out in June in a Hebrew translation published by the Israeli publishing house Khaver Laet. Ms. Babkina talks about her...

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    S.Y. Agnon, Buchach and “The Key in the Pocket”

    Posted On: December 14th, 2017
    Posted In: Agnon Literary Centre, Book Fairs/Festivals, Publications, Sponsored Projects, Outreach

    The home of the Hebrew-language writer S.Y. Agnon is located in the Talpiot neighborhood of Jerusalem and sits high enough on a hill that on a clear day, the Old City is visible in 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.

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    Encounter: The Ukrainian-Jewish Literary Prize  

    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."

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