"I am not afraid of the word zhyd. It does not hurt me, and I want it not to hurt anyone else." So says the poet and translator Oleksandr Averbuch during a conversation about his...
It is difficult to imagine any discourse about Polish-language interwar poetry without the figure of Zuzanna Ginczanka. Born as Polina Gincburg in Kyiv in 1917, she became a resident of Rivne only a few months...
[Editor's note: Vasyl Makhno is a Ukrainian poet, novelist, and essayist who is a laureate of many awards, including "Encounter: The Ukrainian-Jewish Literary Prize"™ (2020), sponsored by the Canadian charitable non-profit organization Ukrainian Jewish Encounter...
Debora Vogel is one of the most prominent figures among the 20th-century Yiddish-speaking authors of Eastern Europe. She wrote her texts mainly in Yiddish and Polish, rarely in Hebrew. Born in 1900 (or 1902, according...
“In the collection of poems The Jewish King, Oleksandr Averbuch offers, or more precisely invents, writing in which memory and oblivion are tightly intertwined, forgetting and remembering, creation and resuscitation. This is an intertwined panorama...
I can’t recall exactly when, but I came to know Alex Averbuch’s poetry somewhere in our shared intersections of Ukrainian studies, gender studies, and poetry. A native of Novoaider, a village in the Luhansk region...
Ukrainian writer Vasyl Makhno traveled to Israel between 23 June and 2 July 2023 to discuss the intersection of Ukrainian and Jewish literature and culture in Ukraine and abroad. His presentations before Ukrainian-, English- and...
Vasyl Makhno is a Ukrainian poet, novelist, and essayist who is a laureate of many awards, including "Encounter: The Ukrainian-Jewish Literary Prize"™ (2020), sponsored by the Canadian charitable non-profit organization Ukrainian Jewish Encounter (UJE) with the support of...
[Editor’s note: Vasyl Makhno is a Ukrainian poet, novelist, and essayist who is a laureate of many awards, including “Encounter: The Ukrainian-Jewish Literary Prize"™ (2020), sponsored by the Canadian charitable non-profit organization Ukrainian Jewish Encounter...
Journalist Vladislav Davidzon is the author of a newly published collection of essays titled Jewish-Ukrainian Relations and the Birth of a Political Nation: Selected Writing 2013-2023 (Ibidem Verlag, Stuttgart, 2023). The Paris-based writer appeared recently...
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.
