The Ukrainian Jewish Encounter and the NGO “Publishers Forum” (Lviv, Ukraine) are pleased to announce that non-fiction submissions will be judged in the 2021 ‘Encounter: The Ukrainian-Jewish Literary Prize’ ™. Guidelines will be announced mid-January...
The publication Light on the Hills is the result of the Agnon literary residency, which took place from September to December 2019, in Buchach, Ukraine. This is the second residency to gather Ukrainian writers in...
The Ukrainian Jewish Encounter supported the Ukrainian-language translation and publication of two books by the great Israeli writer Aharon Appelfeld Kateryna and Blooms of Darkness. Both books were translated by his long-time translator Victor Radutsky...
The sixth German–Ukrainian meeting of writers belonging to the Paperbridge Circle took place on 10–11 September in the form of the Paperbridge Circle 2020 telebridge between Ivano-Frankivsk and Berlin. The conversation with the writer Yuri...
The renowned soprano, born in Biliavyntsi in Ternopil oblast into the family of a Ukrainian Greek Catholic priest, was one of the greatest opera singers in the first half of the twentieth century. Krushelnytska studied...
In the mid-twentieth century, the causes of epidemics were not understood even by scientists, let alone ordinary people, who saw in this misfortune only Divine punishment and/or witchcraft, together with the machinations of evil forces....
To the Raion Administration in Dąbrowica! The request of Pinkevych, Petro, who resides in Dąbrowica on 31 Shosova Street In keeping with permission granted to me to open a photography establishment, I request the transfer,...
Thanks to the support of the privately organized, multinational initiative Ukrainian Jewish Encounter (UJE), a new column entitled “Overcoming the Past” has been introduced on the website of Ukraїna Moderna. The new column is designed...
LB.ua is launching the publication of a series of interviews within the framework of the focus-theme of "Culture in the Expectation Mode" launched by PEN Ukraine 2020/2021. The first conversation is with Leonid Finberg. ...
The Ambassador of the State of Israel to Ukraine, Joel Lion, recently presented the medal and diploma certifying the title of Righteous Among the Nations to Dmytro Stetsiuk of Zhytomyr, whose grandfather and grandmother were...
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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.
