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...
Stanisław Lem once slipped away, having built his own world where he was the hospitable and slightly ironic host rather than someone who had to adapt to the world of others, expecting and kowtowing. Lem...
Bruno Schulz is a writer and artist of Jewish origin, born in Drohobych. While his most famous works were written in Polish, he left his cultural mark in the memory of multiple peoples represented in...
Zuzanna Ginczanka published only one collection of poems in her lifetime (On Centaurs, 1936), but her work became a sensation in Polish literary circles. A Jew by origin, she was born in Kyiv, lived in...
Professor Petro Kraliuk of the Ostroh Academy discusses Hryhorii Skovoroda's connections with Jews and Jewish culture. Skovoroda and Jewry Yelyzaveta Tsarehradska: Today, our guest in the studio is Professor Petro Kraliuk, сhairman of the Academic...
Ivan Dziuba was a dissident, literary critic, Minister of Culture of Ukraine, and co-founder of the People's Movement of Ukraine, the first opposition party in Soviet Ukraine. He played a key role in restoring Ukraine's...
As a poet who was born in Ukraine and survived the Holocaust there, Paul Celan was able to speak clearly on the issue of poetry in times of catastrophe. His response is still relevant today...
It is impossible to talk about the modern Ukrainian publishing sector and Jewish studies without mentioning Leonid Finberg, one of the key figures in these fields. Mr. Finberg, born in 1948, is a sociologist, public...
Marta Konyk Originally appeared in Ukrainian @LB.ua Alexander J. Motyl is a professor of political science and history at Columbia University and a writer and artist. In 2024, he was a jury member for Encounter:...
Yaroslav Trofimov has been a leading voice explaining Ukraine and the complexities of the Russo-Ukrainian war, now in its third year, to an international audience. As The Wall Street Journal's chief foreign affairs correspondent since...
History sometimes imposes itself on life so fatally that even the most correct and worthy choices are disastrous, but it is impossible to know this in advance. "It's good to be alone; it's delicious to...
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.
