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Ukraine’s Holodomor discussed at Lviv 25th Book Forum

Posted On: January 31st, 2019

Posted In: Book Fairs/Festivals, UJE Initiatives, 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: UJE Initiatives, Jews on Ukrainian Lands, Book Fairs/Festivals, 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: UJE Initiatives, Book Fairs/Festivals, Agnon Literary Centre, Literature, Sponsored Projects, Culture, Publications, 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...

Buchach-Jerusalem: A bridge of inspiration for new Ukrainian literature

Posted On: November 16th, 2018

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

Sofia Andrukhovych, a rising star of Ukrainian prose, participated in a unique project in the two house-museums where the future Nobel Prize in Literature recipient Shmuel Yosef Agnon lived. Buchach, in Galicia, and then Jerusalem...

Compelling book describes heartbreaking difficulties of mass migration of Eastern European Jews

Posted On: October 8th, 2018

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

Who closes the door? And who can open it? Who escapes? And who doesn’t? A compelling book entitled The Great Departure: Mass Migration from Eastern Europe and the Making of the Free World by Tara...

Laughter against the background of chaos, or how to survive in a city where there is constant shooting

Posted On: September 5th, 2018

Posted In: Literature, Culture

We are talking with the historian Tetyana Batanova about Kyiv in 1919, and the satirical novel written by the Jewish writer Der Tunkeler. In 1917, strikes and rebellions in St. Petersburg led to the fall...

Zvi Preigerzon: the Soviet Union’s secret Hebrew writer

Posted On: August 27th, 2018

Posted In: Literature, Sponsored Projects, Culture, Other Programs, The Odessa Review

The story of a Ukrainian-born writer who secretly wrote in the Hebrew language his entire life while working as a coal engineer. This article by Matthew Kupfer appeared in the October/November 2017 issue of The...

Without geography, but with a bibliography: A translator discusses Amos Oz’s "Jews and Words"

Posted On: July 11th, 2018

Posted In: Literature, Culture

Jews and Words, a collection of essays by Amos Oz and Fania Oz-Salzberger, has come out in Ukrainian (Dukh i Litera Publishing House). We are talking with the translator Iaroslava Strikha about the ideas discussed...

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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.

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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

Buchach-Jerusalem: A bridge of inspiration for new Ukrainian literature

Compelling book describes heartbreaking difficulties of mass migration of Eastern European Jews

Laughter against the background of chaos, or how to survive in a city where there is constant shooting

Zvi Preigerzon: the Soviet Union’s secret Hebrew writer

Without geography, but with a bibliography: A translator discusses Amos Oz’s "Jews and Words"

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Ukrainian Jewish Encounter Timeline wins international recognition while countering Russian propaganda

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Communicator Awards:

Encounter: The Ukrainian-Jewish Literary Prize

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