It is difficult to imagine any discourse about Polish-language interwar poetry without the figure of Zuzanna Ginczanka. Born as Polina Gincburg in Kyiv in 1917, she became a resident of Rivne only a few months...
Marharyta Ormotsadze The Ukrainian Jewish Encounter continues to tell about the Ukrainian Righteous Among the Nations, people who saved Jews during the Shoah (Holocaust). This time, we have collected the stories of artists among the...
[Editor's note: Vasyl Makhno is a Ukrainian poet, novelist, and essayist who is a laureate of many awards, including "Encounter: The Ukrainian-Jewish Literary Prize"™ (2020), sponsored by the Canadian charitable non-profit organization Ukrainian Jewish Encounter...
Natan (Anatoly) Sharansky (b. 1948) is a well-known Israeli politician of Ukrainian-Jewish origin and an illustrious human rights advocate. He was born in 1948 in Stalino (now Donetsk) into a Jewish family originally from Odesa....
Our guest is Olena Zaslavska, director of the International Interdisciplinary Certificate Program in Jewish Studies and executive director of the Zionist Federation of Ukraine. She talks about Jewish studies in Ukraine and the interaction between...
Ukrainian-Jewish relations are rich in common pages of history and outstanding figures who once played a significant role in Israel's formation and development. One of them is Ephraim Katzir (Katchalski), a native of Kyiv, an...
Auschwitz was recreated in the Ivano-Frankivsk region in 1996 for shooting the Italian film Truce (La Tregua). Ihor Mykhailiuk, who worked as an interpreter on the set, talks about the film. Released in 1997, Truce...
Debora Vogel is one of the most prominent figures among the 20th-century Yiddish-speaking authors of Eastern Europe. She wrote her texts mainly in Yiddish and Polish, rarely in Hebrew. Born in 1900 (or 1902, according...
The Jewish Museum in Dnipro has unveiled an exhibit called “Sataniv: The Lost World of an Ancient Jewish Cemetery”. The exhibition curator is the regional historian, explorer, photographer, and tourist guide Dmytro Poliukhovych, who is...
Bohdan Stupka (1941–2012), born in Kulykiv in the Lviv region of western Ukraine, was an illustrious Ukrainian actor and a Minister of Culture of Ukraine who established a particularly striking presence in the Ukrainian-Jewish encounter....
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.
