Professor Wolf Moskovich, UJE Board Member and well-known linguist, recalls his young years spent in the special Jewish environment of Chernivtsi and the role the city played in his future career. Childhood in a religious...
Today's episode of Encounters features a conversation about the lawyers Hersch Lauterpacht, who coined the term "crimes against humanity," and Raphael Lemkin, the author of the term "genocide." Today, these two lawyers' discoveries and developments...
[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...
[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...
What was life like for Jews in Kyiv after the Second World War? How did the city lose its Jewish color, and can it be restored? In today's episode of Encounters, a program devoted to...
A conversation about how the state policy on the Jews was formulated in the Russian Empire In the final days of 1791, the Russian empress Catherine II established the Pale of Settlement for the Jewish...
How do we remember the genocide of Jews, and how should we record the genocide of Ukrainians in this Russo-Ukrainian war? Our guest today is Vladyslava Moskalets, senior lecturer in the Faculty of History at...
Why are we taught about Ukrainian-Jewish relations? On today's show, the Western Ukrainian National Republic (ZUNR), Ukrainian-Jewish relations during its existence, and Ruben Fahn's book. Our guest today is the historian Oleh Pavlyshyn, who is...
[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...
On today's “Encounters” program, dedicated to Ukrainian-Jewish relations, we are continuing our conversation about the history of the Jewish community in the city of Volodymyr. In the first part of the program, "A thousand years...
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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 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.
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.
