Hannukah this year begins on December 16 and will last until December 24. Listen to Nash Holos host Paulette MacQuarrie report about this holiday... Hanukkah is a joyous holiday, celebrated every year by Jews around...
The renowned Ukrainian writer Yuri Andrukhovych was featured in the inaugural Hromadske (Public) Radio broadcast of “Encounters,” a new program devoted to Ukrainian-Jewish relations. Yuri Andrukhovych is currently working on Eight Former Synagogues, or Labels...
TORONTO – As fighting continues in Ukraine’s eastern regions, Israeli photographer Alexander Sherbakov is waging his own truth campaign. After spending over two months months on Kyiv’s Maidan earlier this year, Sherbakov is sharing his...
Radio Liberty has been running a series of interviews entitled “Bohemians at the Barricades” where leading Kyiv cultural figures discuss the context of their participation in the events of the Maidan. Artists, writers, and art...
Borscht, one of the favorite dishes of both athletes and spectators at the Olympic Games, is not actually Russian in origin. The soup, made bright red by its base of beets, is Ukrainian (and the...
The Ukrainian poet from New York Vasyl Makhno visited Israel 9-19 June 2014. Miriam Feyga Bunimovich on behalf ofUkrainian Jewish Encounter talks with the poet about his impressions of the journey. Vasyl Makhno in Jerusalem....
Vasyl Makhno, an acclaimed Ukrainian poet whose work has been widely celebrated in Ukraine, Eastern Europe, and the United States, toured Israel 9-19 June 2014, visiting Tel Aviv, Haifa, Acre, Safed, and Jerusalem. On 16...
The popular Ukrainian folk ballad Vziav Bi Ya Banduru (I’d Rather Take a Bandura) represents one of several shortened versions of an original poem written by the Ukrainian poet Mykhailo Petrenko (1817-1862). It tells the...
«If you believe that you can damage, then believe that you can fix. » Those are the words of Rebbe Nachman, founder of the Breslov Hasidic movement. In his short life, Rebbe Nachman achieved much...
The festival of Passover commemorates the Exodus of Jews from Egypt over three thousand years ago. The timeless and universal message of this holiday is that slaves can go free, and that the future can...
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.
