Throughout two world wars, the Revolution, purges, and exile, the prolific Jewish folklorist and ethnomusicologist Moisei (Moshe) Beregovskyi (Beregovsky/Beregovskii) created a body of scholarly work that proved essential to the preservation and study of Jewish musical traditions and...
A conversation about book production on the territory of Ukraine in the last few centuries with Nadia Ufimtseva, who holds an M.A. in Jewish Studies. She is a graduate student at the National University of...
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...
Discussion about the Kultur-Lige (in English), 28 BookForum, Lviv, 16 September 2021. Participants: Prof. Myroslav Shkandrij, Prof. Harriet Murav, Prof. Gennadiy Estriakh, Moderator: Natalia A. Feduschak As defined by the YIVO Encyclopedia of Jews in...
A star of BookForum 2021, Nobel Prize Laureate Olga Tokarczuk, in conversation with Ostap Slyvynsky, said that for her, the person who sets the standard for defining the literature of Central and Eastern Europe could...
[Editor's note: "Encounter: The Ukrainian-Jewish Literary Prize" ™ was inaugurated in 2020 with the goal of building on the common experiences of Ukrainians and Jews over the centuries, expressed in the written word. The prize...
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.
