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...
By Vladyslava Moskalets As I was leaving for my month-long research stay in Paris, I took along Blooming Spaces: The Collected Poetry, Prose, Critical Writing, and Letters of Debora Vogel (2020), translated and edited by...
In 2024, Encounter: The Ukrainian-Jewish Literary Prize was awarded in the nonfiction category and went to Yuriy Skira for his book Solid. The Life-Saving Footwear Factory, recently published by the Lviv-based Choven publishing house. The...
Yohanan Petrovsky-Shtern is a man of many trades. He is a historian, a linguist, a translator, an essayist, and an artist, and the list goes on and on. Currently living in the United States, he...
Originally appeared in Ukrainian @Chytomo Amadoka is not Sofia Andrukhovych's newest book (she has recently published Catananche), but it is definitely her most voluminous one in terms of the number of pages and ideas. As...
Paul Robert Magocsi, Chair of Ukrainian Studies at the University of Toronto and UJE Board Member, and Peter Johnsson, renowned Swedish journalist and historian who has written several books on Poland and Ukraine, discussed the...
The writer Vasyl Makhno has been living in the USA for nearly 25 years but has never lost touch with the Ukrainian cultural context. He writes and works in New York, but his books are...
Rachel Korn is closely related to the Jewish literary environment of interwar Galicia. Together with Rokhl Auerbakh and Debora Vogel, she launched the Zuschtajer journal, laying the foundation for experimental Yiddish literature of the time....
Publications of the Ukrainian Jewish Encounter and the Tkuma Ukrainian Institute of Holocaust Studies are dedicated to the long and dramatic history of Ukrainian-Jewish relations. UJE books examine a wide range of Ukrainian-Jewish relations from...
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.
