When Shmuel Yosef Agnon received the Nobel Prize, he reportedly said in jest, "Yesterday, half of Israel didn't know who Agnon was, and the other half didn't know who Nobel was. Today we are both...
Janet Sobel, née Jennie Olechovsky, was one of the most prominent American artists of the 20th century, who pioneered the dripping technique. She is also considered the "grandmother of American abstract expressionism." She was born...
Wolf Moskovich, professor emeritus at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, the only foreign member of Ukraine's National Academy of Sciences living in Israel, the initiator and editor-in-chief of the unique 27-volume academic series Jews and...
How a Jewish boy from a Ukrainian town lost in the forests and swamps of the Chernihiv region became a friend of the US president and played a key role in the recognition of the...
Rose Ausländer (née Scherzer) was a prominent representative of modernist German-language Jewish poetry that emerged in Czernowitz (now Chernivtsi) in the 1920s and 1930s. She was born in Czernowitz on 11 May 1901. Her mother,...
Maryna Horbatiuk Joseph Roth, one of the most famous 20th-century German-language writers and journalists, was a Galician Jew, monarchist, socialist, cosmopolitan, hoaxer, and alcoholic. He was a successful reporter (but always short of money), hotel...
Serhiy Hirik, lecturer in Jewish studies at the Kyiv-Mohyla Academy, discusses the history and marginalization of the word zhyd. Etymology of zhyd Yelyzaveta Tsarehradska: I have recently overheard a conversation in which Jews were constantly...
The Ukrainian Institute of National Memory recommends celebrating a number of famous people this year. Among them is Professor Solomon Frankfurt, an outstanding agrobiologist and economist. He was a statesman during the Ukrainian Revolution and...
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?...
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.
