UJE - Ukrainian Jewish Encounter
Search
  • English
  • Ukrainian
  • About Us
  • Mission and Goals
  • What We Do
    • Scholarly and Educational Initiatives
    • Research and Publication
    • Public Awareness and Communal Events
    • Planned Activities
  • Shared Historical Narrative
  • UJE's Team
    • Academic Council
    • Advisory Board
    • Board of Directors
    • Co-Directors
    • Staff
  • Special Relationships
  • Discover
    • UJE Initiatives
      • 'Encounter' Literary Prize
      • Babyn Yar Commemoration (1941-2016)
      • Sheptytsky Award
      • Symposia
        • Israel’s Experience of Nation-Building: Lessons for Ukraine
      • Shared Historical Narrative
      • Exhibits
        • A Journey through the Ukrainian-Jewish Encounter
      • Outreach
        • Book Fairs/Festivals
        • Limmud FSU
        • World Jewish Congress
    • Sponsored Projects
      • Krytyka, "War is…"
      • Dukh i Litera Digital Library
      • Publications
      • Audio/Visual Media
        • Hromadske Radio
        • Nash Holos
        • Kontakt TV
        • Finding Babel
      • Other Programs
        • Hadashot
        • Agnon Literary Centre
        • Ukraina Moderna
        • Zahid.net
        • The Odessa Review
        • Israeli Friends of Ukraine
        • Istorychna Pravda
        • Special Projects
    • Culture
      • Did You Know?
      • Literature
      • Visual Arts
      • Music
      • Theatre
      • Cinema
      • Architecture
      • Language
      • Ethnography
      • Religion
      • Cuisines
    • History
      • Jews on Ukrainian Lands
      • Ukrainian- Jewish Relations History
      • The Holocaust in Ukraine
      • Holodomor
      • Metropolitan Andrei Sheptytsky
    • Diverse Voices
      • Videoblogs
      • Ukrainian statehood and identity
    • Commentary and Analysis
      • Commentary
      • Analysis
    • News
      • UJE in the News
      • Ukraine-Israel Relations
      • Jewish Life in Ukraine
      • Ukrainian-Jewish Relations
      • Holocaust Remembrance
      • Antisemitism
      • Culture and Arts
      • Other UJE-Related News
      • Book Reviews
      • Press Releases
      • Russia–Ukraine War
    • Events
    • UJE Timeline
    • Contact Us
      Discover Categories:
    • UJE Initiatives
      • 'Encounter' Literary Prize
      • Babyn Yar Commemoration (1941-2016)
      • Sheptytsky Award
      • Symposia
        • Israel’s Experience of Nation-Building: Lessons for Ukraine
      • Shared Historical Narrative
      • Exhibits
        • A Journey through the Ukrainian-Jewish Encounter
      • Outreach
        • Book Fairs/Festivals
        • Limmud FSU
        • World Jewish Congress
    • Sponsored Projects
      • Krytyka, "War is…"
      • Dukh i Litera Digital Library
      • Publications
      • Audio/Visual Media
        • Hromadske Radio
        • Nash Holos
        • Kontakt TV
        • Finding Babel
      • Other Programs
        • Hadashot
        • Agnon Literary Centre
        • Ukraina Moderna
        • Zahid.net
        • The Odessa Review
        • Israeli Friends of Ukraine
        • Istorychna Pravda
        • Special Projects
    • Culture
      • Did You Know?
      • Literature
      • Visual Arts
      • Music
      • Theatre
      • Cinema
      • Architecture
      • Language
      • Ethnography
      • Religion
      • Cuisines
    • History
      • Jews on Ukrainian Lands
      • Ukrainian- Jewish Relations History
      • The Holocaust in Ukraine
      • Holodomor
      • Metropolitan Andrei Sheptytsky
    • Diverse Voices
      • Videoblogs
      • Ukrainian statehood and identity
    • Commentary and Analysis
      • Commentary
      • Analysis

    Mykola Riabchuk: Our society is nearing normalcy

    Posted On: September 30th, 2021
    Posted In: 'Encounter' Literary Prize, UJE Initiatives, Literature, Culture

    [Editor's note: "Encounter: The Ukrainian-Jewish Literary Prize" ™ was inaugurated in 2020 with the goal of building on the common experiences of Ukrainians and Jews over the centuries, expressed in the written word. The prize...

    Read More

    Liliana Hentosh: The national concept of history does not exist because there was no history

    Posted On: September 28th, 2021
    Posted In: 'Encounter' Literary Prize, UJE Initiatives, Culture, Diverse Voices

    [Editor's note: "Encounter: The Ukrainian-Jewish Literary Prize" ™ was inaugurated in 2020 with the goal of building on the common experiences of Ukrainians and Jews over the centuries, expressed in the written word. The prize...

    Read More

    Babyn Yar. In Voices

    Posted On: September 23rd, 2021
    Posted In: Dukh i Litera Digital Library, Literature, Sponsored Projects, Culture

    The poems by Marianna Kiyanovska are dedicated to the memory of Babyn Yar. Marianna Kiyanovska is a poet, translator, literary critic, member of the Association of Ukrainian Writers and the National Union of Writers of...

    Read More

    Omelian Kovch (1884–1944)

    Posted On: September 22nd, 2021
    Posted In: Did You Know?, Culture

    Omelian Kovch (1884–1944) was prisoner Number 2399 in Barrack 14 at the German concentration camp Majdanek on the outskirts of the Polish city of Lublin during the Second World War. The front line was approaching,...

    Read More

    The Ukrainian-Jewish experience: Literature

    Posted On: September 16th, 2021
    Posted In: Book Fairs/Festivals, UJE Initiatives, Sponsored Projects, Audio/Visual Media, Literature, Kontakt TV, Culture, Outreach

    Ukrainian Jewish Encounter (UJE) is a Canadian charitable non-profit organization founded in 2008 to strengthen and deepen relations between Ukrainians and Jews. Among our organization's many initiatives is the support of literary festivals, residences, publishing...

    Read More

    "The Anti-Imperial Choice: The Making of the Ukrainian Jew" wins the 2021 'Encounter' prize

    Posted On: September 15th, 2021
    Posted In: 'Encounter' Literary Prize, UJE Initiatives, Literature, Culture

    Ukrainian Jewish Encounter (UJE), a Canadian charitable non-profit organization, and Ukraine's NGO "Publishers Forum" (Lviv, Ukraine) are pleased to announce that the Ukrainian-language translation of The Anti-Imperial Choice: The Making of the Ukrainian Jew by...

    Read More

    Israel and Ukraine thirty years ago: The first steps toward each other — via Babyn Yar

    Posted On: September 12th, 2021
    Posted In: Ukrainian- Jewish Relations History, The Holocaust in Ukraine, History, Diverse Voices

    Why did the Holocaust topic surface at the earliest stage of the establishment of relations between Israel and Ukraine, and how did the fiftieth anniversary of the Babyn Yar tragedy become the first test of...

    Read More

    Meridian Czernowitz 2021: Israeli poetry

    Posted On: September 9th, 2021
    Posted In: UJE Initiatives, Book Fairs/Festivals, Literature, Culture, Outreach

    Ukrainian Jewish Encounter is a long-standing sponsor of the Meridian Czernowitz International Poetry Festival, which took place this year on 3–5 September 2021. This year’s festival was held in a "live" format, as well as...

    Read More

    In search of Hrytsko Kernerenko, person without a profession: A genealogical mystery

    Posted On: September 7th, 2021
    Posted In: Jews on Ukrainian Lands, The Holocaust in Ukraine, History

    "Which is the straight path that a man should choose for himself? One which is an honor to the person adopting it and [on account of which] honor [accrues] to him from others." Talmud, Pirkei...

    Read More

    After the Ghettos of Czernowitz and Bershad — to a New Life in Israel

    Posted On: September 1st, 2021
    Posted In: Literature, Culture

    Book Review of Zvi Harry Likwornik, Als Siebenjähriger im Holocaust: Nach den Ghettos von Czernowitz und Bérschad in Transnistrien ein neues Leben in Israel 1934-1948-2012 (As a Seven-year-old in the Holocaust: After the Ghettos of...

    Read More
      Discover Categories:
    • UJE Initiatives
      • 'Encounter' Literary Prize
      • Babyn Yar Commemoration (1941-2016)
      • Sheptytsky Award
      • Symposia
        • Israel’s Experience of Nation-Building: Lessons for Ukraine
      • Shared Historical Narrative
      • Exhibits
        • A Journey through the Ukrainian-Jewish Encounter
      • Outreach
        • Book Fairs/Festivals
        • Limmud FSU
        • World Jewish Congress
    • Sponsored Projects
      • Krytyka, "War is…"
      • Dukh i Litera Digital Library
      • Publications
      • Audio/Visual Media
        • Hromadske Radio
        • Nash Holos
        • Kontakt TV
        • Finding Babel
      • Other Programs
        • Hadashot
        • Agnon Literary Centre
        • Ukraina Moderna
        • Zahid.net
        • The Odessa Review
        • Israeli Friends of Ukraine
        • Istorychna Pravda
        • Special Projects
    • Culture
      • Did You Know?
      • Literature
      • Visual Arts
      • Music
      • Theatre
      • Cinema
      • Architecture
      • Language
      • Ethnography
      • Religion
      • Cuisines
    • History
      • Jews on Ukrainian Lands
      • Ukrainian- Jewish Relations History
      • The Holocaust in Ukraine
      • Holodomor
      • Metropolitan Andrei Sheptytsky
    • Diverse Voices
      • Videoblogs
      • Ukrainian statehood and identity
    • Commentary and Analysis
      • Commentary
      • Analysis

    Get notified when we have new stories or events

    Hromadske Radio

    Zustrichi

    Nash Holos
    Program Archive

    Experience the new online

    UJE Timeline

    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 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.

    Visit the UJE Timeline

     

    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."

    Learn More

     

    Download the complete 168-page book

    A Journey Through the Ukrainian-Jewish Encounter

    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.

    Download for desktop

    Download for mobile

    Twitter Facebook YouTube Instagram
    © 2023 Ukrainian Jewish Encounter