On 4 November 2026, Ukraine's Museum of Theater, Music, and Cinema, located in the heart of Kyiv, hosted the grand opening of the exhibition "Shared Stage." The showcase is dedicated to the work of Ukrainian...
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....
Discussion about the Kultur-Lige (in English), 28 BookForum, Lviv, 16 September 2021. Participants: Prof. Myroslav Shkandrij, Prof. Harriet Murav, Prof. Gennadiy Estriakh, Moderator: Natalia A. Feduschak As defined by the YIVO Encyclopedia of Jews in...
Sidi Tal (Sorele Birkental, 1912-1983) was born in what was then called Czernowitz, the capital of the Duchy of Bukovina in the Austro-Hungarian Empire, and is now Chernivtsi, Ukraine. As borders shifted and political regimes...
We are continuing our conversation about Jewish theater. In the first part we talked about the founding of Jewish theater and its work on the territory of contemporary Ukraine from the late nineteenth century until...
We are talking about Jewish theater in Ukraine and the publication Wandering Stars in Ukraine: Pages from the History of Jewish Theater. Our guest in the studio today is the theater critic Iryna Meleshkina, who...
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.
