A memorial concert dedicated to the 75th anniversary of Babyn Yar was held at the Kyiv Opera House on 26 September 2016. Engaging artists from all over the world, the Hamburg Symphony Orchestra performed Max Bruch’s...
[Editor’s note: This interview aired on Ukraine’s Hromadske Radio before Eternal Calendar by Vasyl Makhno was named winner of “Encounter: The Ukrainian-Jewish Literary Prize”™ on 16 September 2020 at the 27th Lviv International BookForum. The...
Originally appeared in Russian @jewishnews.com.ua Marla Osborn is an American citizen who is engaged in the preservation of Jewish heritage in western Ukraine and heads the project Rohatyn Jewish Heritage. Marla actively shares the successes...
Ukrainian Jewish Encounter (UJE), a Canadian charitable non-profit organization, and Ukraine's NGO "Publishers Forum" (Lviv, Ukraine) are pleased to announce that Eternal Calendar (Vichnyi calendar) by Vasyl Makhno, published by Ukraine's "The Old Lion Publishing...
The “Encounter: the Ukrainian-Jewish Literary Prize”™ is awarded every year for the most important work of fiction and non-fiction (in alternate years), which promotes Ukrainian-Jewish understanding by helping to strengthen Ukraine’s position as a multiethnic...
Recent sociological surveys have shown that more than thirty percent of Europeans and more than half of the world’s population know nothing about the Holocaust. On the 75th anniversary of the end of the Holocaust...
Ivan Franko (1856-1916) is considered one of the founding fathers of modern Ukrainian literature. Yet his attitude towards Jews was often ambivalent in his literary and journalistic works. The panel discussion “Ukrainians and Jews in...
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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.
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.
