Paul Celan: Avant-garde poet after Auschwitz
As a poet who was born in Ukraine and survived the Holocaust there, Paul Celan was able to speak clearly on the issue of poetry in times of catastrophe. His response is still relevant today...
As a poet who was born in Ukraine and survived the Holocaust there, Paul Celan was able to speak clearly on the issue of poetry in times of catastrophe. His response is still relevant today...
It is impossible to talk about the modern Ukrainian publishing sector and Jewish studies without mentioning Leonid Finberg, one of the key figures in these fields. Mr. Finberg, born in 1948, is a sociologist, public...
Marta Konyk Originally appeared in Ukrainian @LB.ua Alexander J. Motyl is a professor of political science and history at Columbia University and a writer and artist. In 2024, he was a jury member for Encounter:...
The Encounters program has invited Tetiana Shyshkina, a PhD student at the International Center for Culture Studies at the Justus Liebich University of Giessen and a graduate of several programs at the Kyiv-Mohyla Academy, including...
Yaroslav Trofimov has been a leading voice explaining Ukraine and the complexities of the Russo-Ukrainian war, now in its third year, to an international audience. As The Wall Street Journal's chief foreign affairs correspondent since...
History sometimes imposes itself on life so fatally that even the most correct and worthy choices are disastrous, but it is impossible to know this in advance. "It's good to be alone; it's delicious to...
By Vladyslava Moskalets As I was leaving for my month-long research stay in Paris, I took along Blooming Spaces: The Collected Poetry, Prose, Critical Writing, and Letters of Debora Vogel (2020), translated and edited by...
In 2024, Encounter: The Ukrainian-Jewish Literary Prize was awarded in the nonfiction category and went to Yuriy Skira for his book Solid. The Life-Saving Footwear Factory, recently published by the Lviv-based Choven publishing house. The...
Yulia Robchynska, a Jewish education manager at Project Kesher, talks about Hanukkah. [Editor’s note: This interview originally aired in 2023.] What is Hanukkah for your family? Yulia Robchynska: In my family, this holiday was not...
Yohanan Petrovsky-Shtern is a man of many trades. He is a historian, a linguist, a translator, an essayist, and an artist, and the list goes on and on. Currently living in the United States, he...