The Ukrainian novelist Oksana Zabuzhko once wrote, “We, the poor relatives of the European household, have but a meager chance of being heard in the post-informational world.” Zabuzhko was writing for a specifically Western readership...
The Israeli premiere of the new documentary Crimea: As It Was (2016), which took place against the background of skyscrapers in the heart of Tel Aviv, was a resounding success. The film recounts the personal...
Director/producer of the documentary David Novack describes the remarkable experience of following in footsteps of the Soviet writer.
On the 75th anniversary of Ukrainian-Russian writer Isaac Babel's execution, Finding Babel follows his 45-year old grandson Andrei Malaev-Babel on a journey to come closer to some sense of truth. Hoping to better understand Babel's...
The Kharkiv branch of the Zionist youth organization "Ha-Shomer Ha-Tsair" shot the short film So. Dom. Bass. The movie was screened at a festival of Jewish short cinema in Minsk, Belarus on December 13-14, 2014....
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.
