Welcome to Ukrainian Jewish Heritage on Nash Holos Ukrainian Roots Radio. I’m Peter Bejger. Today we will play a game with the alphabet. “A” is for aristocrat, someone who is privileged but also someone who...
Europe in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries witnessed the creation of “national styles” in art, which built on the contemporary penchant for historicism, even while searching for a new art style and responding...
Welcome to Ukrainian Jewish Heritage on Nash Holos Ukrainian Roots Radio. I’m Peter Bejger. Consider the following: Night songs from a neighboring village Come drifting at times to my balcony They quench my sorrow, caress...
This video was created by the Los Angeles-based artist and educator Benny Ferdman in 2010. It was inspired by, and features music from a unique concert program, “Night Songs from a Neighboring Village”, composed and...
Director/producer of the documentary David Novack describes the remarkable experience of following in footsteps of the Soviet writer.
On the 75th anniversary of Ukrainian-Russian writer Isaac Babel's execution, Finding Babel follows his 45-year old grandson Andrei Malaev-Babel on a journey to come closer to some sense of truth. Hoping to better understand Babel's...
Welcome to Ukrainian Jewish Heritage on Nash Holos Ukrainian Roots Radio. I’m Peter Bejger. A fascinating new book just published by Stanford University Press tackles the controversial legacy of a man in the shadows of...
Welcome to Ukrainian Jewish Heritage on Nash Holos Ukrainian Roots Radio. I’m Peter Bejger. The beautiful Western Ukrainian city of Lviv has over the past few years blossomed as an artistic and cultural center, a...
Izabella Slutsky, Tel Aviv Editor’s note: Dmytro Tyshchenko’s Yiddish-Ukrainian dictionary was voted one of the best books of 2015 at the Lviv Book Forum. The following is an interview with Mr. Tyshchenko that appeared earlier...
The name for the Jewish New Year is Rosh Hashanah, which in Hebrew means the “head of the year.” It is one of the most important religious holidays for Jews … a day of awe...
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.
