May 2020 - UJE - Ukrainian Jewish Encounter

The spiritual leaders of Ukraine’s Jewish community

Posted On: May 28th, 2020

Posted In: Culture, Diverse Voices, Religion

The lands of modern Ukraine have historically been home to various Hasidic movements as well as a significant share of “Lithuanian” Judaism, a non-Hasidic branch with an emphasis on Talmudic scholarship. This mosaic has practically...

“Intertwined worlds”: In memory of a poet

Posted On: May 27th, 2020

Posted In: Did You Know?, Literature, Culture

Sad news has arrived from Kyiv, where on 26 May 2020, the distinguished Ukrainian poet and translator Moisei Fishbein died at the age of 73. With his extraordinary personality and poetic creativity, he embodied the...

International jury named for the “Encounter” prize

Posted On: May 25th, 2020

Posted In: 'Encounter' Literary Prize, UJE Initiatives

Ukrainians and Jews have lived side-by-side on the territory of modern-day Ukraine for nearly two millennia. Separately and together, they weaved a tapestry that has left an indelible mark on Ukraine’s cultural, linguistic, and historical...

UCHS Library of Holocaust Memoirs: “The Lone Survivor"

Posted On: May 22nd, 2020

Posted In: Publications, Sponsored Projects, Literature, Culture

[Editor’s note: 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...

How the Europe Island Festival works with “chamber” languages: The history of Hebrew and Yiddish

Posted On: May 20th, 2020

Posted In: Hromadske Radio, Sponsored Projects, Audio/Visual Media, Culture, Language

Today we will be talking about literature and translation. It is especially gratifying to be discussing all this via the example of a young, very ambitious, and successful festival called Europe Island, which is held...

Blog: “Don’t mention the war”: does Europe need a shared historical narrative of WW2?

Source: Ukrainian Institute London

Posted On: May 19th, 2020

Posted In: Sponsored Projects, Other Programs, Special Projects

On the eve of VE day, Ukrainian Institute London and the Henry Jackson Society held a lively discussion about whether Europe needs a shared narrative of World War Two.

The history of Jewish theater in Ukraine: an interview with Iryna Meleshkina, part 2

Posted On: May 14th, 2020

Posted In: Hromadske Radio, Sponsored Projects, Culture, Theatre

We are continuing our conversation about Jewish theater. In the first part we talked about the founding of Jewish theater and its work on the territory of contemporary Ukraine from the late nineteenth century until...

The history of Jewish theater in Ukraine: an interview with Iryna Meleshkina, part 1

Posted On: May 13th, 2020

Posted In: Hromadske Radio, Sponsored Projects, Audio/Visual Media, Culture, Theatre

We are talking about Jewish theater in Ukraine and the publication Wandering Stars in Ukraine: Pages from the History of Jewish Theater. Our guest in the studio today is the theater critic Iryna Meleshkina, who...

Myth overcomes History

Posted On: May 11th, 2020

Posted In: Agnon Literary Centre, Sponsored Projects, Other Programs

From ancient times a story has drifted through various cultures about remarkable masters who are destroyed or maimed by a powerful client so that they will never again create something similar for anyone else. This...

The fate of a Jewish artist: from Galicia to the USA with love and pain

Posted On: May 7th, 2020

Posted In: Culture, Visual Arts

Ilya Schor, a native of Galicia who was a talented painter, jeweller, engraver and book illustrator, became one of the founders and most renowned representative of the "Jewish style" in American art. His works are...

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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 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.

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.

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."

FROM ANTIQUITY TO 1914

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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