Levi Eshkol (Shkolnik) was born in Orativ, Vinnytsia region, in 1895 in the Jewish family of Joseph and Dvora. He later changed his surname to a similar-sounding one — Eshkol, which means "grape cluster" in...
The book of the German literary critic and translator Petro Rykhlo introduces the reader to the polyphonic sound of Paul Celan's poetry, structured according to the principle of multi-layered intellectual and emotional palimpsests when the...
Vitaly Portnikov, March 2023 For a journalist, war is work. In this sense, a journalist’s work is more akin to that of a soldier or a doctor. Choosing this profession — if it is a...
Russia's invasion of Ukraine on 24 February 2022 shocked the world. For months, Western governments had warned of the impending criminal war — "absurd," the world responded. In the 21st century, larger powers invading smaller...
Editor’s note: Every year, UJE offers literature to read during the holiday season. Despite Russia’s criminal war against Ukraine, we continue this tradition. Ukrainian literature and culture persevere in the face of extreme difficulties. We offer reflections and...
Editor’s note: Every year, UJE offers literature to read during the holiday season. Despite Russia’s criminal war against Ukraine, we continue this tradition. Ukrainian literature and culture persevere in the face of extreme difficulties. We...
[Editor's note: Each year, UJE offers literature to read during the holiday season. Despite Russia's genocidal war against Ukraine, we continue this tradition. Ukrainian literature and culture persevere in the face of extreme difficulties. Over...
This book is the first collection of Ukrainian translations of poems by Osip Mandelshtam (1891–1938), created over the past five decades. The poems of Mandelshtam, a world-class poet who was both biographically and creatively connected...
In my view, Alex Averbuch's book Zhydivsky korol (Kyiv: Dukh i Litera, 2021) should be considered as a cultural fact of Ukrainian-Jewish relations. Interwoven into the poems in this volume are colorful threads from the...
[Editor's note: Russia's unprovoked and criminal war against Ukraine suspended the regular work of many organizations, reorienting their efforts. So it is with the Ukrainian Jewish Encounter. In the coming weeks, we will run interviews...
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.
