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    • UJE Initiatives
      • Encounter: The Ukrainian-Jewish Literary Prize
      • Babyn Yar Commemoration (1941-2016)
      • All-Ukrainian student's drawing competition
      • 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
      • Dukh i Litera Digital Library
      • Krytyka, "War is…"
      • Publications
        • eBook: "Jews and Ukrainians: A Millennium of Co-Existence"
      • 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
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      • Ukraine: A History Course
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    Josef Zissels: Discover my thoughts

    Posted On: August 29th, 2022
    Posted In: Dukh i Litera Digital Library, Sponsored Projects, Diverse Voices

    The texts presented in this book are Josef Zissels’ understanding of the different vectors of his activities in recent years. Zissels is a social activist, a member of the Ukrainian Helsinki Group and the "First...

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    Humaneness at the edge of life

    Posted On: August 25th, 2022
    Posted In: Sponsored Projects, The Holocaust in Ukraine, History, Zahid.net, Other Programs

    How should one talk with young people about the Holocaust? [Editor's note: Russia's unprovoked and criminal war against Ukraine suspended the regular work of many organizations, reorienting their efforts. So it is with the Ukrainian...

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    "You are all my kin, and I am your kin"

    Posted On: August 22nd, 2022
    Posted In: Sponsored Projects, The Holocaust in Ukraine, History, Zahid.net, Ukrainians who saved Jews, Other Programs

    [Editor's note: Russia's unprovoked and criminal war against Ukraine suspended the regular work of many organizations, reorienting their efforts. So it is with the Ukrainian Jewish Encounter. In the coming weeks, we will run interviews...

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    Ukrainian Righteous: Ivano-Frankivsk

    Posted On: August 18th, 2022
    Posted In: The Holocaust in Ukraine, Ukrainians who saved Jews, History, Diverse Voices

    We continue our series of articles dedicated to the Ukrainian Righteous Among the Nations. This time, we will look at the Ivano-Frankivsk region. For years, the Soviet authorities did everything to create the image of...

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    The nightmare of history

    Posted On: August 16th, 2022
    Posted In: Diverse Voices

    As recent events have shown, after eight years of deceptive complacency, neither Ukraine nor the world is sleeping anymore. Since mid-February, I had nightmares every night that groups of planes were bombing Kyiv. In these...

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    Oleksandr Averbuch on poetry and the intercultural relations between Ukrainians and Jews

    Posted On: August 12th, 2022
    Posted In: Literature, Sponsored Projects, Culture, Other Programs, Special Projects

    Originally appeared in Ukrainian @chytomo.com (Editor's note: Ukrainian Jewish Encounter supported the publication of Oleksandr Averbuch's poetry collection "Zhydivskyi korol" [The Jewish King].) During the first three months of the war, the recontextualization of historical...

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    The Jewish Enlightenment, Hasidism, and the "Haskalah" in the Ukrainian lands: Interview with Vitaly Chernoivanenko

    Posted On: August 8th, 2022
    Posted In: Hromadske Radio, Sponsored Projects, Culture, Audio/Visual Media, Religion

    [Editor's note: Russia's unprovoked and criminal war against Ukraine suspended the regular work of many organizations, reorienting their efforts. So it is with the Ukrainian Jewish Encounter. In the coming weeks, we will run interviews...

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      Discover Categories:
    • UJE Initiatives
      • Encounter: The Ukrainian-Jewish Literary Prize
      • Babyn Yar Commemoration (1941-2016)
      • All-Ukrainian student's drawing competition
      • 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
      • Dukh i Litera Digital Library
      • Krytyka, "War is…"
      • Publications
        • eBook: "Jews and Ukrainians: A Millennium of Co-Existence"
      • 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
      • Ukrainians who saved Jews
      • Holodomor
      • Metropolitan Andrei Sheptytsky
      • Ukraine: A History Course
    • Diverse Voices
      • Videoblogs
      • Ukrainian statehood and identity
    • Commentary and Analysis
      • Commentary
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    Ukrainian Jewish Encounter Timeline wins international recognition while countering Russian propaganda

    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.

    Explore the UJE Timeline

    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.

    Since its launch in September 2022, the UJE Timeline has earned international recognition by winning eight international awards:

    Web Excellence Awards:

    • Excellence — Website Non-profit (2023)

    w3 Awards:

    • Silver — Website Non-profit (2023)
    • Silver — Website Best Structure and Navigation (2023)
    • Silver— Website Best Visual Appeal and Aesthetics (2023)

    Anthem Awards:

    • Bronze — Website Digital and Innovative Experiences (2024)

    Communicator Awards:

    • Gold — Website Non-Profit (2024)
    • Silver — Website Structure and Navigation (2024)
    • Silver — Website Visual Appeal and Aesthetics (2024).

     

    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."

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    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.

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    All-Ukrainian Student's
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    2021/2022

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