A booklet labeled "The Lives of Children," preserved at the National Library of Israel, contains Hebrew stories and poems written a century ago by Jewish high school students in Ukraine The National Library of Israel's...
On February 24, Russian forces invaded Ukraine on multiple fronts. Boris Khersonsky (b. 1950), one of Ukraine's most prominent writers, posted "Missa in tempore belli" on Facebook, commenting, "This poem was written in 2014 in...
Jewish influences on Lesia Ukrainka and her works. A conversation with Serhii Romanov, Doctor of Philological Sciences and the head of the Department of Literary Theory and Foreign Literature at Lesia Ukrainka Volyn National University,...
This book by Zhanna Kovba is based on archival sources, memoirs and oral histories recorded by the author of indigenous Galicians — Ukrainians, Poles, Jews — witnesses to events, and who considered the social and...
The book's strength lies in its accounts, devoid of excessive simplification, of events and the life of Jews and other victims of the Nazi regime. A conversation with Tetiana Borodina, the scholarly co-editor of this...
Born near the little town of Chortkiv in what is today western Ukraine, the prolific Jewish writer, journalist, and editor Karl Emil Franzos achieved international renown in the late nineteenth century with his German-language tales...
The Ukrainian Studies Program at Columbia University’s Harriman Institute and the Ukrainian Jewish Encounter (UJE) hosted an online conversation with renowned Ukrainian writers Vasyl Makhno and Andrei Kurkov on 14 October 2021. The discussion focused...
A conversation with Andrei Kurkov and Vasyl Makhno, New York City, 16 October 2021 (In Ukrainian) Acclaimed Ukrainian writers Andrei Kurkov and Vasyl Makhno appeared together in New York on 16 October 2021 to discuss...
Revival of the Nation. Lessons from Israel for Ukraine, Lviv, 28 BookForum, 19 September 2021 (in Ukrainian) The book series "Jewish Library" is a collection of the best works about the contribution of the Jewish...
A discussion about multilingual Jewish prose on the occasion of the publication of the Ukrainian-language anthologies American Jewish Prose and The Mahogany Box. Jewish Prose of Eastern Europe published by Dukh i Litera. Participants: Leonid...
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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 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.
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.
