In my view, Alex Averbuch's book Zhydivsky korol (Kyiv: Dukh i Litera, 2021) should be considered as a cultural fact of Ukrainian-Jewish relations. Interwoven into the poems in this volume are colorful threads from the...
On 26 August, a scholarly conference on "The Jews of Volyn: History, the Holocaust, and the Present Day" [took place] place at the Sarny History and Ethnography Museum. It [was] devoted to the 80th anniversary...
We continue our series of publications dedicated to the Righteous Among the Nations in the Ukrainian cities affected by the ongoing Russian invasion. This time, we look at the city of Kyiv. Over the past...
The next online seminar "Overcoming the Past" will be held on 29 November 2022 at 1:00 p.m. (Kyiv time). The seminar’s guest is Kai Struve, Ph.D., associate professor of East European history at the Institute...
[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. We continue to run interviews and articles done...
For hundreds of years, Ukraine fought for independence and built plans for a free future. It made sense of its complicated past, in which one of the most important aspects was resistance to conquest, division,...
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.
Since its launch in September 2022, the UJE Timeline has earned international recognition by winning eight international awards:
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.
