Debora Vogel is one of the most prominent figures among the 20th-century Yiddish-speaking authors of Eastern Europe. She wrote her texts mainly in Yiddish and Polish, rarely in Hebrew. Born in 1900 (or 1902, according...
Bohdan Stupka (1941–2012), born in Kulykiv in the Lviv region of western Ukraine, was an illustrious Ukrainian actor and a Minister of Culture of Ukraine who established a particularly striking presence in the Ukrainian-Jewish encounter....
Wilhelm Reich (1897–1957) was a controversial psychoanalyst born into an assimilated Jewish family in Dobrianychi in Galicia in the Austro-Hungarian Empire, now western Ukraine, and grew up in Bukovina on a large farm operated by...
Yitzhak Ben-Zvi, né Shimshelevich, was born into the Jewish family of Zvi Shimshelevich and Atara Kopelevich in Poltava in 1884. He received his primary education at a heder and continued his studies at the gymnasium...
Levi Eshkol (Shkolnik) was born in Orativ, Vinnytsia region, in 1895 in the Jewish family of Joseph and Dvora. He later changed his surname to a similar-sounding one — Eshkol, which means "grape cluster" in...
The renowned printmaker, illustrator, and photographer was born in the western Ukrainian town of Drohobych, then part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. Lilien achieved international fame through the use of Jugendstil (Art Nouveau) motifs in his...
Born Bronya Kutzenok into a Hasidic family in the small Ukrainian village of Starovitsky, Peli was exposed to the printed word at a very early age and became a pioneer in Jewish publishing and bookselling....
Throughout two world wars, the Revolution, purges, and exile, the prolific Jewish folklorist and ethnomusicologist Moisei (Moshe) Beregovskyi (Beregovsky/Beregovskii) created a body of scholarly work that proved essential to the preservation and study of Jewish musical traditions and...
Born near the little town of Chortkiv in what is today western Ukraine, the prolific Jewish writer, journalist, and editor Karl Emil Franzos achieved international renown in the late nineteenth century with his German-language tales...
Omelian Kovch (1884–1944) was prisoner Number 2399 in Barrack 14 at the German concentration camp Majdanek on the outskirts of the Polish city of Lublin during the Second World War. The front line was approaching,...
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.
