The biographical details of Khane-Rokhl Werbermacher are often vague, contradictory, or disputed as there is only scattered documentation. This very uncertainty has inspired legends about the mysterious life of a pious Hasidic woman who achieved...
Purim is a holiday Jews observe in memory of an ancient Jewish victory. The story of Purim is recounted in the Book of Esther in the Bible. It’s a story of treachery and warfare in...
[Editor’s note: The Ukrainian Jewish Encounter recently ran a series of interviews with Ostap Slyvynsky, translator of the Ukrainian-language edition of Nobel Prize winning writer Olga Tokarczuk’s monumental work The Books of Jacob, for Hromadske Radio’s UJE-supported Zustrichi program....
We are talking about mysticism in Judaism and Jewish mysticism with Ihor Turov, Doctor of Historical Sciences, who is a senior scholarly associate of the I. F. Kuras Institute of Political and Ethnic Studies at...
The lands of modern Ukraine have historically been home to various Hasidic movements as well as a significant share of “Lithuanian” Judaism, a non-Hasidic branch with an emphasis on Talmudic scholarship. This mosaic has practically...
The Ukrainian translation of The Dynamics of the Bible by Pinchas Polonsky, an Israeli author and researcher of Judaism, was published in Ukraine in April 2020. “Ukrainian is the first language into which my book...
The Kedem Public Auction House held an unusual auction in the capital of Israel in July 2019. Whereas hundreds of lots and large collections are usually put up for auction, this time the entire auction...
The Ukrainian Cultural Center in Israel recently presented an evening dedicated to the memory of the prominent Ukrainian public and church figure Metropolitan Andrei Sheptytsky (1865-1944). Hennadiy Nadolenko, Ambassador of Ukraine to the State of...
During the winter holidays, when markets were being held in cities, an encounter of various ethnic and religious communities in a single, common space took place on a central square. Diana Klochko is at the...
Alti Rodal, co-director of the Ukrainian Jewish Encounter, spoke recently at San Francisco’s Jewish Community Library about “Hasidism on Ukrainian Lands: Social Aspects and Teachings.” In this engaging and thought-provoking presentation, given on November 19,...
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.
