It is difficult to imagine any discourse about Polish-language interwar poetry without the figure of Zuzanna Ginczanka. Born as Polina Gincburg in Kyiv in 1917, she became a resident of Rivne only a few months...
During our conversation with the Russian historian Tatiana Tairova-Yakovleva, we discussed the following questions: Did Russian historians take part in forming the ideologemes of the Putin regime? What position did they adopt after 24 February...
Marharyta Ormotsadze The Ukrainian Jewish Encounter continues to tell about the Ukrainian Righteous Among the Nations, people who saved Jews during the Shoah (Holocaust). This time, we have collected the stories of artists among the...
Our guest is Yuri (Amir) Radchenko, Ph.D. in History, co-founder of the Center for Interethnic Relations Research in Eastern Europe, and acting rabbi in Masoret, a traditional (conservative) Jewish community in Kyiv. International conference on...
[Editor's note: Vasyl Makhno is a Ukrainian poet, novelist, and essayist who is a laureate of many awards, including "Encounter: The Ukrainian-Jewish Literary Prize"™ (2020), sponsored by the Canadian charitable non-profit organization Ukrainian Jewish Encounter...
The following article about Ukrainian forced laborers (male and female) in Nazi Germany during the Second World War focuses on their recruitment and labor exploitation, their return home, and Soviet filtration measures. The compensation payments...
Natan (Anatoly) Sharansky (b. 1948) is a well-known Israeli politician of Ukrainian-Jewish origin and an illustrious human rights advocate. He was born in 1948 in Stalino (now Donetsk) into a Jewish family originally from Odesa....
Our guest is Olena Zaslavska, director of the International Interdisciplinary Certificate Program in Jewish Studies and executive director of the Zionist Federation of Ukraine. She talks about Jewish studies in Ukraine and the interaction between...
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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.
