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      • Encounter: The Ukrainian-Jewish Literary Prize
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      • All-Ukrainian student's drawing competition
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      • Symposia
        • Israel’s Experience of Nation-Building: Lessons for Ukraine
      • Shared Historical Narrative
      • Exhibits
        • A Journey through the Ukrainian-Jewish Encounter
      • Outreach
        • Book Fairs/Festivals
        • Limmud FSU
        • World Jewish Congress
    • Sponsored Projects
      • Dukh i Litera Digital Library
      • Krytyka, "War is…"
      • Publications
        • eBook: "Jews and Ukrainians: A Millennium of Co-Existence"
      • Audio/Visual Media
        • Hromadske Radio
        • Nash Holos
        • Kontakt TV
        • Finding Babel
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    How has the face of Lutsk changed? The history of three Jewish quarters

    Posted On: June 27th, 2018
    Posted In: Jews on Ukrainian Lands, Hromadske Radio, Sponsored Projects, Audio/Visual Media, History

    Regional historian Oleksandr Kotys talks about the lost city, the small, narrow streets of the Jewish quarters, and the rise of the Lutsk ghetto. In the center of Lutsk stands the eighteenth-century Great Synagogue. Permission...

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    Poetry festival celebrates the historical memory and literary legacy of Chernivtsi, Ukraine

    Posted On: June 22nd, 2018
    Posted In: Literature, Nash Holos, Sponsored Projects, Culture, Audio/Visual Media

    Poetry in a time of war. Such is the headline by the German newspaper Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, or FAZ, in its recent reporting on the dynamic annual poetry festival Meridian Czernowitz, held earlier in September...

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    Israel’s “ETHNO-khutir” Ukrainian festival a grandiose success in Tel Aviv

    Posted On: June 20th, 2018
    Posted In: Sponsored Projects, Other Programs, Israeli Friends of Ukraine

    The fourth annual festival of Ukrainian cultural heritage "ETHNO-khutir" held in Tel Aviv on 15 June 2018 surpassed the success of all previous years. More than two thousand Israelis enjoyed Ukrainian songs, cuisine, and fashion...

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    The gap between family history and official memory: the writer Cécile Wajsbrot

    Posted On: June 18th, 2018
    Posted In: Hromadske Radio, Literature, Sponsored Projects, Culture, Audio/Visual Media

    The writer Cécile Wajsbrot talks about the fault lines and discussions taking place in French society. In the spotlight are various topics, including collaborationism, the Holocaust, and the memory of the Algerian War. Iryna Slavinska:...

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    Serhii Kravtsov: During the Soviet period, attempts were made to erase the traces of urban Jewish communities

    Posted On: June 15th, 2018
    Posted In: Jews on Ukrainian Lands, Hromadske Radio, Sponsored Projects, History, Audio/Visual Media

    Iryna Slavinska:  Today the Encounters program is hosting Dr. Serhii Kravtsov, an architectural historian at Hebrew University’s Center for Jewish Art in Jerusalem. We are talking about Jewish architecture and its traces in Ukrainian cities....

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    “East West Street”: A Book about how two lawyers from Lviv changed the world

    Posted On: June 11th, 2018
    Posted In: Hromadske Radio, Literature, Sponsored Projects, Culture, Audio/Visual Media

    Our guest on today’s broadcast of Encounters is Philippe Sands, a lawyer who works at Matrix Chambers. He is also the director of the Centre on International Courts and Tribunals, Queen’s Counsel, and Professor of...

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    A Ukrainian city in Jewish mysticism and music

    Posted On: June 9th, 2018
    Posted In: Culture, Music

    For Ukrainians, Zolochiv is one of the small district centers of Galicia. For traditional Jews, the word "Zolochiv" or "Zloczow" gives birth to special associations. For religious Jews the very name of the city of...

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    Ukrainian Jews after the Maidan

    Posted On: June 6th, 2018
    Posted In: Commentary, Commentary and Analysis

    To understand the position of Jews in modern Ukraine, you must first understand what the 2014 Euromaidan Revolution meant for Ukrainians of all ethnicities. This article was originally written in March 2014 in the immediate...

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    An evening of discussion and music in Stockholm

    Posted On: June 5th, 2018
    Posted In: Sponsored Projects, Publications

    In an evening of engaging conversation and music, Canadian professor Paul Robert Magocsi and renowned Swedish journalist Peter Johnsson appeared in Stockholm recently to discuss trends in Jewish-Ukrainian relations, past and present. The event marked...

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    The Holocaust has become part of Ukraine’s history: Marianna Kiyanovska talks about “Babyn Yar. In Voices”

    Posted On: June 1st, 2018
    Posted In: Hromadske Radio, Literature, Sponsored Projects, Culture, Audio/Visual Media

    Marianna Kiyanovska talks about her new poetry collection Babyn Yar. In Voices and reads some poems from her book. The focus of our conversation is the degree to which the Holocaust theme is represented in Ukrainian...

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      Discover Categories:
    • UJE Initiatives
      • Encounter: The Ukrainian-Jewish Literary Prize
      • Babyn Yar Commemoration (1941-2016)
      • All-Ukrainian student's drawing competition
      • Sheptytsky Award
      • Symposia
        • Israel’s Experience of Nation-Building: Lessons for Ukraine
      • Shared Historical Narrative
      • Exhibits
        • A Journey through the Ukrainian-Jewish Encounter
      • Outreach
        • Book Fairs/Festivals
        • Limmud FSU
        • World Jewish Congress
    • Sponsored Projects
      • Dukh i Litera Digital Library
      • Krytyka, "War is…"
      • Publications
        • eBook: "Jews and Ukrainians: A Millennium of Co-Existence"
      • Audio/Visual Media
        • Hromadske Radio
        • Nash Holos
        • Kontakt TV
        • Finding Babel
      • Other Programs
        • Hadashot
        • Agnon Literary Centre
        • Ukraina Moderna
        • Zahid.net
        • The Odessa Review
        • Israeli Friends of Ukraine
        • Istorychna Pravda
        • Special Projects
    • Culture
      • Did You Know?
      • Literature
      • Visual Arts
      • Music
      • Theatre
      • Cinema
      • Architecture
      • Language
      • Ethnography
      • Religion
      • Cuisines
    • History
      • Jews on Ukrainian Lands
      • Ukrainian- Jewish Relations History
      • The Holocaust in Ukraine
      • Ukrainians who saved Jews
      • Holodomor
      • Metropolitan Andrei Sheptytsky
      • Ukraine: A History Course
    • Diverse Voices
      • Videoblogs
      • Ukrainian statehood and identity
    • Commentary and Analysis
      • Commentary
      • Analysis

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    Ukrainian Jewish Encounter Timeline wins international recognition while countering Russian propaganda

    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.

    Explore the UJE Timeline

    As Ukraine defends its very existence against Russia, the Ukrainian Jewish Encounter Timeline serves to counter the malicious and false narratives about Ukraine and its history. The Timeline demonstrates that Ukraine is home to diverse peoples and, for centuries, one of the world’s oldest and largest Jewish communities.

    Since its launch in September 2022, the UJE Timeline has earned international recognition by winning eight international awards:

    Web Excellence Awards:

    • Excellence — Website Non-profit (2023)

    w3 Awards:

    • Silver — Website Non-profit (2023)
    • Silver — Website Best Structure and Navigation (2023)
    • Silver— Website Best Visual Appeal and Aesthetics (2023)

    Anthem Awards:

    • Bronze — Website Digital and Innovative Experiences (2024)

    Communicator Awards:

    • Gold — Website Non-Profit (2024)
    • Silver — Website Structure and Navigation (2024)
    • Silver — Website Visual Appeal and Aesthetics (2024).

     

    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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    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.

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