[Editor’s note: 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...
[Editor’s note: 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...
Today we are speaking with Anatoly Podolsky, the director of the Ukrainian Center for Holocaust Studies, about the memoirs of two individuals who never knew each other, but who had very similar experiences. These are...
Sad news has arrived from Kyiv, where on 26 May 2020, the distinguished Ukrainian poet and translator Moisei Fishbein died at the age of 73. With his extraordinary personality and poetic creativity, he embodied the...
[Editor’s note: 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...
We will be talking about the incredible graphic novel Maus by Art Spiegelman, who won the Pulitzer Prize in 1992, with his translator, Yaroslava Strikha. Listeners of Hromadske Radio already heard about this Ukrainian-language publication...
The launch of Sofia Andrukhovych’s just-published novel Amadoka was supposed to take place at the Mystetskyi Arsenal National Art and Culture Museum Complex on 21 March 2020. Over two hundred people were expected at this...
Today we are speaking with Lilia Omelianenko, cofounder of the Vydavnytstvo Publishing House, about the graphic novel Maus: A Survivor’s Tale which will soon appear in a Ukrainian translation. It was written by the American...
Yevheniya Kononenko, a Ukrainian writer, translator from the French and English, author of feminist prose works, and a resident of Kyiv, did a residency at the Agnon Literary Center in Buchach. She stayed for one...
In March 2020, the Ukrainian poet, prose writer, essayist, translator, and member of the Ukrainian PEN Club Marianna Kiyanovska was awarded the Shevchenko National Prize for her collection of poetry entitled Babyn Yar. In Voices....
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.
