The historian Tetiana Pastushenko talks about the Jewish community after the Holocaust, the return of Soviet power, and postwar Stalinist repressions. The pogrom that took place in Kyiv in September 1945 was an episode connected...
An unexpected encounter took place in August 2021 in the Carpathian Mountain resort town of Truskavets, where Rabbi Moshe Reuben Asman was vacationing. Lev Hrytsak, the general director of the Karpaty Hotel and Resort Complex...
This article examines the key transformations that have taken place at Holocaust sites in the city of Dnipro (formerly known as Dnipropetrovsk) from the end of the Nazi occupation until the present day. Attention is...
The historian Iryna Radchenko discusses Dnipro[petrovsk] during the interwar period, Stalinist repressions, and the denunciation of the Jewish physician Boris Khanis. In the hundred years between the second half of the nineteenth century and the...
In Ukraine's Internet space, it is difficult to come across any publication about the Holocaust that has not elicited comments along the lines of "When will people finally start talking about Ukrainians?" Even in the...
The Ukrainian Jewish Encounter, a Canadian charitable non-profit organization, and Ukraine’s NGO “Publishers Forum” (Lviv, Ukraine) are pleased to announce the shortlist for the 2021 “Encounter: The Ukrainian-Jewish Literary Prize” ™, which this year is...
The continuation of a conversation with Andriy Pavlyshyn, the translator of Grzegorz Gauden’s book Lviv: The End of Illusions; The Story of the November 1918 Pogrom. Andriy Pavlyshyn: The Lviv “batiars” are similar to those...
The first part of our conversation with the translator Andriy Pavlyshyn about Grzegorz Gauden’s book Lviv: The End of Illusions; The Story of the November 1918 Pogrom Iryna Slavinska: Who is Grzegorz Gauden? Andriy Pavlyshyn:...
In a recent decision by Yad Vashem, the World Holocaust Remembrance Center, the title of Righteous Among the Nations was awarded to Pavel (Pavlo) Natarov, who served in the local police during the Nazi occupation...
Today it is very difficult to deny the Holocaust, as many eyewitnesses are still alive, and their testimonies are unassailable. The tactics of deniers have therefore changed. They say that the Catastrophe did take place,...
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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.
