The renowned soprano, born in Biliavyntsi in Ternopil oblast into the family of a Ukrainian Greek Catholic priest, was one of the greatest opera singers in the first half of the twentieth century. Krushelnytska studied...
Born in Sambir (Lviv oblast). Outstanding organizer and director of Ukrainian avant-garde theater, filmmaker, actor, and teacher. He developed his own expressionist style of intellectual theater to challenge traditional Ukrainian ethnographic and realist psychological theater repertoires....
Our guest on the show is Dmytro Tsolin, Doctor of Philology, professor, director of the Center for Jewish Studies at the National University of Ostroh, associate professor at Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, and the author...
Panteleimon Kulish (1819–97), influential writer, historian, and ethnographer, the first person to have translated the entire Bible into modern Ukrainian and the first to write historical novels in Ukrainian. [Editor’s note: The Ukrainian Jewish Encounter...
We are discussing the much-awaited [Ukrainian-language] publication of the texts Shosha and The Slave, by Isaac Bashevis Singer, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature. More details about these texts will be provided by the...
Did you know that the late United States Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg (15 March 1933 – 18 September 2020), the second woman appointed to the Court and a renowned pioneer of women’s rights,...
UJE was launched in 2008 with the goal of strengthening mutual comprehension and solidarity between Ukrainians and Jews, two peoples who have lived on the territory of modern-day Ukraine for over a millennium. Among UJE’s...
[Editor’s note: “Our stories are incomplete without each other” is the slogan of Ukrainian Jewish Encounter, which, with the support of the Lviv, Ukraine-based “Publisher’s Forum” is sponsor of “Encounter: The Ukrainian-Jewish Literary Prize” ™.]...
Recent sociological surveys have shown that more than thirty percent of Europeans and more than half of the world’s population know nothing about the Holocaust. On the 75th anniversary of the end of the Holocaust...
In the summer of 2020, the Kyiv-based publishing house Dukh i Litera issued the proceedings of the Fifth International Commemorative Conference of Yiddish Language and Culture. This important academic forum, which was held in August 2018 at...
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.
