Editor’s note: Every year, UJE offers literature to read during the holiday season. Despite Russia’s criminal war against Ukraine, we continue this tradition. Ukrainian literature and culture persevere in the face of extreme difficulties. We offer reflections and...
Editor’s note: Every year, UJE offers literature to read during the holiday season. Despite Russia’s criminal war against Ukraine, we continue this tradition. Ukrainian literature and culture persevere in the face of extreme difficulties. We...
[Editor's note: Each year, UJE offers literature to read during the holiday season. Despite Russia's genocidal war against Ukraine, we continue this tradition. Ukrainian literature and culture persevere in the face of extreme difficulties. Over...
This book is the first collection of Ukrainian translations of poems by Osip Mandelshtam (1891–1938), created over the past five decades. The poems of Mandelshtam, a world-class poet who was both biographically and creatively connected...
In my view, Alex Averbuch's book Zhydivsky korol (Kyiv: Dukh i Litera, 2021) should be considered as a cultural fact of Ukrainian-Jewish relations. Interwoven into the poems in this volume are colorful threads from the...
Ukrainian Jewish Encounter (UJE) is a long-standing sponsor of the Meridian Czernowitz International Poetry Festival, which took place this year on 2–4 September 2022. Despite Russia’s ongoing criminal war against Ukraine, this year’s festival was...
Originally appeared in Ukrainian @chytomo.com (Editor's note: Ukrainian Jewish Encounter supported the publication of Oleksandr Averbuch's poetry collection "Zhydivskyi korol" [The Jewish King].) During the first three months of the war, the recontextualization of historical...
Originally appeared in Ukrainian @zbruc.eu By Vasyl Makhno If you picture the year 1240 and what preceded the siege of Kyiv, and the siege itself, the main sources will be our chronicles as well as...
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...
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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.
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.
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.
