The creator of the Yiddish-Ukrainian dictionary talks about family, history, and the language of the ancestors Dmytro Tyshchenko is the author of the Yiddish-Ukrainian dictionary that was recently published in Kyiv. He was born in...
Today Iryna Slavinska is talking with Ihor Turov, Doctor of Historical Sciences and teacher at Kyiv-Mohyla Academy. Dr. Turov is a specialist on the Hasidism, and therefore this talk is dedicated to the life of...
Daniel Haykin treasures his memories of preparing for Passover when he was a kid in the 1980s. Gefilte fish, an appetizer served during the Passover seder, didn't come from the store.
Dr. Dmytro Tyshchenko talks (in Yiddish) about his new Yiddish-Ukrainian dictionary in Tel Aviv on 11/2/15. The event was sponsored by UJE. Listen here. Read more: UJE Presented in Tel Aviv Dr. Dmytro Tyshchenko, Author...
A new Yiddish-Ukrainian dictionary was presented at Kyiv’s Sholom Aleichem Museum. A striking volume of impressive size, the dictionary is the result of serious work by linguists, translators, and philologists. It will delight connoisseurs and...
On 11 February 2015 the Ukrainian Jewish Encounter hosted an event with Dr. Dmytro (Motl) Tyshchenko, editor of Ukraine’s Mame-loshn journal (1993-98) and author of the newly published Yiddish-Ukrainian dictionary, at the Shalom Aleichem House...
Purim is a holiday Jews observe in memory of an ancient victory recounted in the Book of Esther. This story had eerie parallels in Europe during the bloody 20th century. About twenty five hundred years...
Editor’s note: The following interview by Michael Gold with Dr. Mordekhai Yushkovsky, the Yiddish Instruction Inspector for the Ministry of Education of Israel, was published in Hadashot, the newspaper of the Association of Jewish Organizations...
Larysa Denysenko is a renowned Ukrainian writer. In her novels she often talks about a Kyivan world that for her is impossible to imagine without the image of Jewish families. To illustrate this, the writer...
On February 4th, 2015, Jews around the world will celebrate Tu BiShvat. It falls on the 15th day of the Hebrew month of Shevat. In Jewish tradition Tu BiShvat is known as the New Year...
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.
