The Janowska (Ukr. Yanivsky) concentration camp is a blank spot in the history of Lviv and the Holocaust on the territory of Ukraine. It has become obscured within the context of Eastern Europe and the...
[Editor’s note: The Ukrainian Jewish Encounter recently ran a series of interviews with Ostap Slyvynsky, translator of the Ukrainian-language edition of Nobel Prize winning writer Olga Tokarczuk’s monumental work The Books of Jacob, for Hromadske Radio’s UJE-supported Zustrichi program....
In July 2020 alone, a group of activists in Rivne oblast led by Hryhorii Arshynov from Ostroh installed four new monuments at the sites of mass shootings of Jews during the Holocaust. The dedicated group...
In the studio with me today is Oksana Forostyna, who is one of the members of the Nestor Group, a publisher, and a translator. We will be talking with this thinker and columnist about a...
Part 2 of the conversation with the poet, writer, and translator about Olga Tokarczuk's novel The Books of Jacob. In 2020 the Tempora Publishing House issued Ostap Slyvynsky's Ukrainian translation of this novel. Iryna Slavinska:...
We are talking about The Books of Jacob, by Olga Tokarczuk, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature. The plot of The Books of Jacob unfolds across several borders, and quite a few events take...
A transcript of this discussion is available here. On 7 July 2020, the Ukrainian Institute London, in cooperation with the Ukrainian Jewish Encounter, hosted a panel discussion on the current debate in Ukraine about a...
We are talking about the Jewish scout movement, which originated in western Ukraine. Our guest today is the historian Yurii Yuzych, head of the Supervisory Board of the Plast youth organization. Vasyl Shandro: When did...
On this Encounters program, we talk about Taras Shevchenko and the interpretations, translations, and elucidations of his Yiddish translators. Our guest on the show is Oksana Pashko, a literary specialist, Candidate of Philological Studies, lecturer...
There is no European culture that did not experience the vital and essential influence of Jewish figures, says Anna Sherman, editor in chief of the journal Antikvar. Vasyl Shandro: To what degree are interethnic relations...
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.
Since its launch in September 2022, the UJE Timeline has earned international recognition by winning eight international awards:
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.
