Vladyslava Moskalets With the advent of smartphones and Netflix, we have been gradually losing the canon of popular culture — the films and books that everyone knows, with recognizable characters and catchy quotes. Our tastes...
Ukrainian Jewish Encounter (UJE), a Canadian charitable non-profit organization, and Ukraine's NGO Publishers' Forum (Lviv, Ukraine) are pleased to announce that Dnipro: Biography of a Great City in the Steppe written by Andrii Portnov and...
The Ukrainian Jewish Encounter was founded in 2008 with the goal of building stronger relations between Ukrainians and Jews, two peoples who, for centuries, lived side by side on the territory of what is modern-day...
The screening of a recent film by director Mstyslav Chernov, 2000 Meters to Andriivka, was organized on 31 August 2026 by the Embassy of Ukraine in Israel and the "Created in Ukraine" initiative. The screening...
During his recent working visit to Poland, Ihor Kryvosheia, a professor in the Department of World History and Teaching Methods at Pavlo Tychyna Uman State Pedagogical University and head of the university's Polish Cultural and...
Continuing its tour across Ukrainian cities and towns, the exhibition "A Journey Through the Ukrainian-Jewish Encounter: From Antiquity to 1939," created by UJE, came to Romaniv in Zhytomyr Oblast. The opening ceremony took place on...
[Editor’s note: The annual Jewish pilgrimage to Uman, Ukraine, will take place around Rosh Hashanah, which in 2026 begins at sundown on Friday, 11 September and will conclude at nightfall on Sunday, 13 September. Thousands...
The Ukrainian Jewish Encounter was founded in 2008 with the goal of building stronger relations between Ukrainians and Jews, two peoples who, for centuries, lived side by side on the territory of what is modern-day...
[Editor’s note: Sonya Kapinus’ book White Rabbits was shortlisted for Encounter: The Ukrainian-Jewish Literary Prize in 2025. The winner of the 2026 Encounter prize will be announced at the 33 Lviv International BookForum on 11...
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.
