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A mirror, paintings, and horses: What do the heroes of Jewish tales recount in interwar Chernivtsi?

Posted On: May 28th, 2019

Posted In: Hromadske Radio, Literature, Sponsored Projects, Culture, Audio/Visual Media

The Yiddish literature specialist Moshe Lemster talks about the Bessarabian fabulist Eliezer Shteynbarg. Andriy Kobalia: In the late nineteenth century, in a frontier village in Khotyn County, Bessarabia gubernia, fables began to be written by...

“Your words live in this air”: How Jews interpreted Shevchenko

Posted On: March 28th, 2019

Posted In: Literature, Sponsored Projects, Culture, Other Programs, Istorychna Pravda

In 2019 we will be marking eighty years since the date of the most large-scale projects to publish Yiddish-language translations of [Taras] Shevchenko’s works. Two volumes of Dovid Hofshteyn’s translations finally came out in 1939:...

Interview with Ruth Ellen Gruber (Pt. 2)

Posted On: March 6th, 2019

Posted In: Literature, Nash Holos, Sponsored Projects, Culture, Audio/Visual Media

Ruth Ellen Gruber is an American journalist, author, editor and researcher. Her book, Jewish Heritage Travel: A Guide to Eastern Europe, was first published twenty-five years ago and is still considered the most complete Jewish...

Interview with Ruth Ellen Gruber (Pt. 1)

Posted On: February 28th, 2019

Posted In: Literature, Nash Holos, Sponsored Projects, Culture, Audio/Visual Media

Ruth Ellen Gruber is an American journalist, author, editor and researcher. She has published and lectured widely and has won several awards for her work on Jewish heritage and contemporary Jewish issues in Europe. Her...

The Ukrainian-born French writer Irène Némirovsky

Posted On: February 18th, 2019

Posted In: Literature, Sponsored Projects, Culture, Other Programs, Cinema, Istorychna Pravda

[Editor’s note: Irene Nemirovsky joins Aharon Appelfeld and Amos Oz as a writer with deep ties to Ukraine, but who is still largely unknown by the country’s citizens. 24 February 2019 marks the 116th anniversary...

Ukraine’s Holodomor discussed at Lviv 25th Book Forum

Posted On: January 31st, 2019

Posted In: UJE Initiatives, Book Fairs/Festivals, Literature, Culture, History, Holodomor, Outreach

Red Famine: Stalin’s War on Ukraine by Pulitzer-prize winning journalist Anne Applebaum explores a seminal event in Ukrainian history – the Holodomor. Still little-known internationally, the Holodomor (death by hunger, in Ukrainian) refers to the...

For Lesia Ukrainka, Israel is a way to talk about Ukraine's independence: Olena Huseynova

Posted On: January 14th, 2019

Posted In: Hromadske Radio, Literature, Sponsored Projects, Culture, Audio/Visual Media

Literary specialist and author of the book Lesia Ukrainka from A to Z discusses Jewish motifs in the texts of Larysa Kosach. Iryna Slavinska: Today we will be discussing a literary topic that is not...

Jewish American writer Mendel Osherowitz’s impressions of his trip to Ukraine in the winter of 1932

Posted On: December 17th, 2018

Posted In: Literature, History, Holodomor

Researchers of the Holodomor of 1932–1933 continue to overlook a book that was written by Mendel Osherowitz (b. 1884, Trostianets–d. 1965, New York), a Jewish American writer and journalist who wrote in Yiddish. His work,...

Jewish life in Rivne explored in new book

Posted On: December 13th, 2018

Posted In: Book Fairs/Festivals, UJE Initiatives, Jews on Ukrainian Lands, Literature, Culture, Outreach

Numerous books and monographs have appeared in recent years describing the rich lives of the Jewish communities that inhabited the territory of contemporary Ukraine prior to World War II. Now Ukrainian historian Maxim Hon has...

‘The Key in the Pocket’: Stories of Buchach, Ukraine

Posted On: November 20th, 2018

Posted In: Book Fairs/Festivals, UJE Initiatives, Sponsored Projects, Agnon Literary Centre, Literature, Publications, Culture, Outreach

The Key in the Pocket is a multi-edition collection of stories by three prominent Ukrainian writers—Sofia Andrukhovych, Andriy Lyubka, and Yevheniya Senik—who spent a week at a literary residence in Buchach, Ukraine, the birthplace of...

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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.

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."

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.

A mirror, paintings, and horses: What do the heroes of Jewish tales recount in interwar Chernivtsi?

“Your words live in this air”: How Jews interpreted Shevchenko

Interview with Ruth Ellen Gruber (Pt. 2)

Interview with Ruth Ellen Gruber (Pt. 1)

The Ukrainian-born French writer Irène Némirovsky

Ukraine’s Holodomor discussed at Lviv 25th Book Forum

For Lesia Ukrainka, Israel is a way to talk about Ukraine's independence: Olena Huseynova

Jewish American writer Mendel Osherowitz’s impressions of his trip to Ukraine in the winter of 1932

Jewish life in Rivne explored in new book

‘The Key in the Pocket’: Stories of Buchach, Ukraine

Ukrainian Jewish Encounter Timeline wins international recognition while countering Russian propaganda

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Ukrainian Jewish Encounter Timeline wins international recognition while countering Russian propaganda

Web Excellence Awards:

w3 Awards:

Anthem Awards:

Communicator Awards:

Encounter: The Ukrainian-Jewish Literary Prize

Download the complete 168-page book

A Journey Through the Ukrainian-Jewish Encounter

FROM ANTIQUITY TO 1914

All-Ukrainian Student's Drawing Competition 2021/2022

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