The continuation of a conversation with Andriy Pavlyshyn, the translator of Grzegorz Gauden’s book Lviv: The End of Illusions; The Story of the November 1918 Pogrom. Andriy Pavlyshyn: The Lviv “batiars” are similar to those...
The first part of our conversation with the translator Andriy Pavlyshyn about Grzegorz Gauden’s book Lviv: The End of Illusions; The Story of the November 1918 Pogrom Iryna Slavinska: Who is Grzegorz Gauden? Andriy Pavlyshyn:...
Our guest today is Maksym Hon, Doctor of Political Science, professor, head of the civic organization Mnemonics, and a specialist in Ukrainian-Jewish relations during the first half of the twentieth century in western Ukraine. Vasyl...
A conversation about “Galician California,” Bruno Schulz, oil, [Habsburg emperor] Franz Josef, and Jewish life in Western Ukraine. Our guest on today’s program is Dr. Vladyslava Moskalets, Senior Lecturer in the Department of History at...
Our guest on the show is the literary specialist Marharyta Yehorchenko, editor and compiler of the publication Jewish Addresses of Ukraine (Dukh i Litera, 2020). Vasyl Shandro: Are we talking about these addresses exclusively in...
In the summer of 2020, a monument to the victims of the anti-Jewish pogrom of 1918 was unveiled at the ancient Jewish cemetery in Hlukhiv, on the initiative of the chairman of that city’s Jewish...
This 21 May book discussion was devoted to the monograph/memoir of Ruben (Reuven) Fahn (1878-1939/1944?) on Jews in the Western Ukrainian National Republic (1918-1919). The book, originally published in 1933 in Yiddish, has been translated...
In April 2021, a huge portrait of the young Vladimir Ze'ev Jabotinsky appeared on the wall of a building located at 31 Bazarna Street, in the center of Odesa. The event was attended by Joel...
In conversations with the renowned Polish journalist Iza Khruslinska, Josef Zissels – former political prisoner and dissident, head of the Association of the Jewish Organizations and Communities of Ukraine, executive vice-president of the Congress of...
In the final decades of the Soviet era, hundreds of anti-Zionist books and brochures were published in millions of copies. Many authors secured themselves a steady income through their critique of “Jewish bourgeois nationalism.” Yet,...
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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 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.
As Ukraine defends its very existence against Russia, the Ukrainian Jewish Encounter Timeline serves to counter the malicious and false narratives about Ukraine and its history. The Timeline demonstrates that Ukraine is home to diverse peoples and, for centuries, one of the world’s oldest and largest Jewish communities.
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.
