In 2019 we will be marking eighty years since the date of the most large-scale projects to publish Yiddish-language translations of [Taras] Shevchenko’s works. Two volumes of Dovid Hofshteyn’s translations finally came out in 1939:...
Hava Nagila. The words are Hebrew for Let Us Rejoice. They also comprise the title of one of the most recognizable and well-known songs in the world. And little did I know just how appropriate a...
The historian Shaul Stampfer discusses the religion of Khazaria The Khazar Khanate existed from the seventh to the tenth century. At the peak of its prosperity this nomadic Turkic state controlled the Northern Caucasus, the...
This year, the presidential elections in Ukraine almost coincide with the elections to the Israeli Knesset. Two weeks are left before the Ukrainian election, three weeks before the Israeli one. We have collected the opinions...
The State of Israel was created and built by Jewish settlers who came mainly from Eastern Europe. Among them were quite a few natives of Ukraine, especially from central (Dnipro) Ukraine, which was part of...
Ruth Ellen Gruber is an American journalist, author, editor and researcher. Her book, Jewish Heritage Travel: A Guide to Eastern Europe, was first published twenty-five years ago and is still considered the most complete Jewish...
Exactly one hundred years ago there was a terrible pogrom in the city of Proskuriv [Khmelnytsky]—the largest mass murder of Jews in the twentieth century before the Holocaust. While this terrible tragedy had its executioners,...
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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.
