The Ukrainian Jewish Encounter was founded in 2008 with the goal of building stronger relations between Ukrainians and Jews, two peoples who, for centuries, lived side by side on the territory of what is modern-day...
Russia's invasion of Ukraine on 24 February 2022 shocked the world. For months, Western governments had warned of the impending criminal war — "absurd," the world responded. In the 21st century, larger powers invading smaller...
The writer Vasyl Makhno has been living in the USA for nearly 25 years but has never lost touch with the Ukrainian cultural context. He writes and works in New York, but his books are...
Rachel Korn is closely related to the Jewish literary environment of interwar Galicia. Together with Rokhl Auerbakh and Debora Vogel, she launched the Zuschtajer journal, laying the foundation for experimental Yiddish literature of the time....
Publications of the Ukrainian Jewish Encounter and the Tkuma Ukrainian Institute of Holocaust Studies are dedicated to the long and dramatic history of Ukrainian-Jewish relations. UJE books examine a wide range of Ukrainian-Jewish relations from...
The panel discussion that took place at the Lviv BookForum on 6 October was devoted to the discussion of the nature of genocides in the history of mankind — from biblical times, the tragedy of...
Russia’s criminal full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022 sparked an interest in the country as never before. Suddenly, Ukraine was everywhere, with media internationally regularly covering the war and political analysts offering insights. More...
Ukrainian Jewish Encounter (UJE) is a long-standing sponsor of the Meridian Czernowitz International Poetry Festival in Chernivtsi, Ukraine, which took place on 6–8 September 2024. This year's program included discussions on the Ukrainian-Jewish literary dialogue,...
Shmuel Yosef Agnon (Czaczkes) went down in history as the first Hebrew-language writer who became a Nobel laureate in literature and received this award as a citizen of the State of Israel. In his Nobel...
[Editor's note: Vasyl Makhno is a Ukrainian poet, novelist, and essayist who is a laureate of many awards, including "Encounter: The Ukrainian-Jewish Literary Prize"™ (2020), sponsored by the Canadian charitable non-profit organization Ukrainian Jewish Encounter...
Ida Fink (née Landau) is one of the writers who described the Holocaust richly and deeply based on her own experience. She was born in 1921 in Zbarazh (now Ternopil Oblast) and raised in a...
"I am not afraid of the word zhyd. It does not hurt me, and I want it not to hurt anyone else." So says the poet and translator Oleksandr Averbuch during a conversation about his...
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.
