Born in 1960 in Chernivtsi, Naomi Ben-Ami is one of the most important Israeli diplomats of our time. Her parents come from the Moldovan cities of Bălți and Briceni. She grew up in Chernivtsi and...
The Encounters program features a discussion about Qumran and the Dead Sea Scrolls with Vitaly Chernoivanenko, president of the Ukrainian Association for Jewish Studies. Yelyzaveta Tsarehradska: What is Qumran? What are the Dead Sea Scrolls?...
How Germany contributes to preserving Ukraine's Jewish heritage "I am impressed by the level of involvement of German specialists in our project to preserve Ukraine's Jewish heritage," said Yevhen Kotlyar, a professor at the Kharkiv...
Our guest in the studio is Michal Stamova, who holds a Master's degree in Jewish Studies and consults Project Kesher Ukraine on Jewish education. An expert in the history, culture, and traditions of the Jewish...
A conversation about Ukrainian translations of Hebrew- and Yiddish-language authors took place on 5 October 2025 at the 32nd Lviv BookForum with the participation of essayist and art critic Diana Klochko, Yiddish translator Tetiana Nepypenko,...
The publication Islands of Memory is the result of the Agnon Literary Residency, which took place in Buchach, Ukraine, in 2021 as COVID shutdowns were coming to an end, and before Russia’s full-scale invasion of...
Every year, new books in the field of Jewish studies are published in Ukraine. In the video below, three of Ukraine's publishers who are leaders in the field of Jewish studies —Dukh i Litera (Kyiv),...
On 3 October, the fifth edition of Encounter: The Ukrainian-Jewish Literary Prize will announce its winner — a book of fiction that contributes to Ukrainian-Jewish dialogue. In the meantime, we will review the short-listed submissions,...
"We have inherited a lot of complex plots in the relations between our peoples, Ukrainians and Jews. Now we have to not only 'finish' the unfinished but also untangle historical knots. It often resembles sewing...
Volodymyr Yeshkiliev, a Ukrainian writer and a jury member of the Encounter: The Ukrainian-Jewish Literary Prize 2025, discusses modern literature, its relevance and discourses, and its focus on a narrower audience in the current screen...
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.
