The poems by Marianna Kiyanovska are dedicated to the memory of Babyn Yar. Marianna Kiyanovska is a poet, translator, literary critic, member of the Association of Ukrainian Writers and the National Union of Writers of...
Omelian Kovch (1884–1944) was prisoner Number 2399 in Barrack 14 at the German concentration camp Majdanek on the outskirts of the Polish city of Lublin during the Second World War. The front line was approaching,...
Ukrainian Jewish Encounter (UJE) is a Canadian charitable non-profit organization founded in 2008 to strengthen and deepen relations between Ukrainians and Jews. Among our organization's many initiatives is the support of literary festivals, residences, publishing...
Ukrainian Jewish Encounter (UJE), a Canadian charitable non-profit organization, and Ukraine's NGO "Publishers Forum" (Lviv, Ukraine) are pleased to announce that the Ukrainian-language translation of The Anti-Imperial Choice: The Making of the Ukrainian Jew by...
Ukrainian Jewish Encounter is a long-standing sponsor of the Meridian Czernowitz International Poetry Festival, which took place this year on 3–5 September 2021. This year’s festival was held in a "live" format, as well as...
Book Review of Zvi Harry Likwornik, Als Siebenjähriger im Holocaust: Nach den Ghettos von Czernowitz und Bérschad in Transnistrien ein neues Leben in Israel 1934-1948-2012 (As a Seven-year-old in the Holocaust: After the Ghettos of...
Golda Meir (Goldie Mabovitch,1898–1978), born in Kyiv, Ukraine, forged a dramatic life path and career that enshrined her standing as an illustrious political leader in the global arena and a legendary figure in the establishment...
The biographical details of Khane-Rokhl Werbermacher are often vague, contradictory, or disputed as there is only scattered documentation. This very uncertainty has inspired legends about the mysterious life of a pious Hasidic woman who achieved...
This 23 June 2021 discussion was devoted to “Ukrainian authors in Buchach” featuring writers Andrei Kurkov and Vasyl Makhno who spoke about Ukraine’s contemporary literature at the First International Agnon Festival. Also featured was Mariana...
Ukrainian Jewish Encounter, the Agnon Literary Center (Buchach, Ukraine) and the NGO “Publishers Forum” (Lviv, Ukraine) are supporters of the First International Agnon Festival, which will be held live via Zoom and Facebook between June...
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.
