Wilhelm Reich (1897–1957) was a controversial psychoanalyst born into an assimilated Jewish family in Dobrianychi in Galicia in the Austro-Hungarian Empire, now western Ukraine, and grew up in Bukovina on a large farm operated by...
[Editor's note: LB.UA, one of Ukraine's leading publications, ran a series of interviews with jury members for the 2023 "Encounter: The Ukrainian-Jewish Literary Prize" ™ before the prize winner was announced on 18 September 2023....
[Editor’s note: LB.UA, one of Ukraine’s leading publications, ran a series of interviews with jury members for the 2023 "Encounter: The Ukrainian-Jewish Literary Prize" ™ before the prize winner was announced on 18 September 2023....
We talked about “Encounter: The Ukrainian-Jewish Literary Prize": senses and meanings with Professor Olena Stiazhkina, a member of this year's jury. She holds a doctorate in History and is also a writer and journalist. “Encounter:...
The Ukrainian Jewish Encounter was founded in 2008 with the goal of building stronger relations between Ukrainians and Jews, two peoples who, for centuries, lived side by side on the territory of what is modern-day...
Ukrainian writer Vasyl Makhno traveled to Israel between 23 June and 2 July 2023 to discuss the intersection of Ukrainian and Jewish literature and culture in Ukraine and abroad. His presentations before Ukrainian-, English- and...
Ukrainian writer Vasyl Makhno traveled to Israel between 23 June-2 July 2023 to discuss the intersection of Ukrainian and Jewish literature and culture in Ukraine and abroad. His presentations before Ukrainian-, English- and Hebrew-language audiences...
Project Kesher Ukraine is a national Ukrainian Jewish women's civic organization that supports female entrepreneurs, promotes gender equality, and encourages Jewish women to preserve their people's traditions and pass them on to the next generation....
Rabbi Israel ben Eliezer, better known as the Baal Shem Tov ("Master of the Good Name") and the acronym Besht, became one of the protagonists in the new Ukrainian film "Dovbush" (2023). It will be...
A conversation with Hanna Sherman, editor-in-chief of the Antykvar magazine, director of the Antykvar Publishing House, theater specialist, and lecturer at the Kyiv National I. K. Karpenko-Karyi University of Theatre, Cinema, and Television. Antykvar [Antiquarian]...
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.
