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    “Jewish faces of Catholic saints”: Yevheniya Kononenko on the riddles of small towns and great artists

    Posted On: March 16th, 2020
    Posted In: Literature, Sponsored Projects, Agnon Literary Centre, Culture, Other Programs

    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...

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    “It is not I who wrote this book about Babyn Yar. It wrote itself through me.”

    Posted On: March 5th, 2020
    Posted In: Literature, Culture

    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....

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    A graphic biography of Anne Frank as a way to talk about the Holocaust

    Posted On: March 4th, 2020
    Posted In: Hromadske Radio, Literature, Sponsored Projects, Culture, Audio/Visual Media

    Our conversation today will be a literary one. This is a fine continuation of a series of talks about new books, particularly about work in the genre of graphic texts. Our guest is Tetiana Borodina,...

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    Now available with English captions: Presentation of Yuriy Skira’s Book “Beckoned”

    Posted On: February 25th, 2020
    Posted In: UJE Initiatives, Book Fairs/Festivals, Literature, Culture, Outreach

    Ukrainian Jewish Encounter (UJE) is a Canadian philanthropic organization that has been working since 2008 to strengthen relations between our two peoples. This year marks the sixth time we are presenting our organization’s initiatives and...

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    Ukrainian-Jewish literary contacts, contemporary translations from the Yiddish, and new research: Results of the Odesa conference

    Posted On: February 17th, 2020
    Posted In: Hromadske Radio, Literature, Sponsored Projects, Culture, Audio/Visual Media, Language

    Today our talk is taking place in connection with a conference that took place recently in Odesa and which was devoted to the topic of Ukrainian-Jewish relations and Ukrainian-Jewish literary contacts. Our guest is Oleksandra...

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    Between history and politics: Ivan Lysiak-Rudnytsky and his legacy

    Posted On: December 17th, 2019
    Posted In: Book Fairs/Festivals, UJE Initiatives, Literature, Culture, Outreach

    Ukrainian Jewish Encounter (UJE) is a Canadian philanthropic organization that has been working since 2008 to strengthen relations between our two peoples. This year marks the sixth time we are presenting our organization’s initiatives and...

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    Irina Meleshkina: “Traveling Stars in Ukraine, Jewish Theater in the Pages of History”

    Posted On: December 13th, 2019
    Posted In: UJE Initiatives, Book Fairs/Festivals, Literature, Culture, Outreach

    Ukrainian Jewish Encounter (UJE) is a Canadian philanthropic organization that has been working since 2008 to strengthen relations between our two peoples. This year marks the sixth time we are presenting our organization’s initiatives and...

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    Presentation of Grzegorz Gauden’s Book “Lviv: the End of Illusions”

    Posted On: December 11th, 2019
    Posted In: Book Fairs/Festivals, UJE Initiatives, Literature, Ukrainian- Jewish Relations History, Culture, History, Outreach

    Grzegorz Gauden, Lviv: the End of Illusions, Lviv, 19 September 2019, (In Ukrainian and Polish). Ukrainian Jewish Encounter (UJE) is a Canadian philanthropic organization that has been working since 2008 to strengthen relations between our...

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    Andriy Pavlyshyn: Jacek Kuron on Ukrainians and Poles

    Posted On: December 5th, 2019
    Posted In: UJE Initiatives, Book Fairs/Festivals, Literature, Culture, Outreach

    Ukrainian Jewish Encounter (UJE) is a Canadian philanthropic organization that has been working since 2008 to strengthen relations between our two peoples. This year marks the sixth time we are presenting our organization’s initiatives and...

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    Hrynevych: “Red Imperialism”

    Posted On: November 21st, 2019
    Posted In: UJE Initiatives, Book Fairs/Festivals, Literature, Culture, Outreach

    Ukrainian Jewish Encounter (UJE) is a Canadian philanthropic organization that has been working since 2008 to strengthen relations between our two peoples. This year marks the sixth time we are presenting our organization’s initiatives and...

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      • All-Ukrainian student's drawing competition
      • Sheptytsky Award
      • Symposia
        • Israel’s Experience of Nation-Building: Lessons for Ukraine
      • Shared Historical Narrative
      • Exhibits
        • A Journey through the Ukrainian-Jewish Encounter
      • Outreach
        • Book Fairs/Festivals
        • Limmud FSU
        • World Jewish Congress
    • Sponsored Projects
      • Dukh i Litera Digital Library
      • Krytyka, "War is…"
      • Publications
        • eBook: "Jews and Ukrainians: A Millennium of Co-Existence"
      • Audio/Visual Media
        • Hromadske Radio
        • Nash Holos
        • Kontakt TV
        • Finding Babel
      • Other Programs
        • Hadashot
        • Agnon Literary Centre
        • Ukraina Moderna
        • Zahid.net
        • The Odessa Review
        • Israeli Friends of Ukraine
        • Istorychna Pravda
        • Special Projects
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    Ukrainian Jewish Encounter Timeline wins international recognition while countering Russian propaganda

    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.

    Explore the UJE Timeline

    As Ukraine defends its very existence against Russia, the Ukrainian Jewish Encounter Timeline serves to counter the malicious and false narratives about Ukraine and its history. The Timeline demonstrates that Ukraine is home to diverse peoples and, for centuries, one of the world’s oldest and largest Jewish communities.

    Since its launch in September 2022, the UJE Timeline has earned international recognition by winning eight international awards:

    Web Excellence Awards:

    • Excellence — Website Non-profit (2023)

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    • Silver — Website Non-profit (2023)
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    Encounter: The Ukrainian-Jewish Literary Prize  

    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."

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    FROM ANTIQUITY TO 1914

    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.

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