An announcement of an initiative from the Ukrainian Civic Group for the Restoration of the Activities of the Jewish Museum in Lviv The Jewish Museum in Lviv opened on 17 June 1934 in a Jewish...
The culturologist Diana Klochko talks about the tradition of the vertep, [a type of Ukrainian puppet theater re-enacting the Nativity—Trans.] and the contemporaneity of vertep characters that represent national minorities: Jews, Roma, Armenians, and others....
S. Ansky (Jewish author, playwright, and researcher of Jewish folklore) led a series of expeditions in 1912-1914, accompanied by a photographer and musicologist, with a view to recording Jewish life in the Pale of Settlement...
On the exhibition of ketubot at the Borys Voznytsky National Art Gallery of Lviv. The exhibition features Jewish marriage contracts, which were saved by the Lviv collector and hematologist Marek Reichenstein. (Editor’s note: The exhibition...
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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 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.
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.
