“No harm will come to you here." Lilly Pohlman says she will remember these words till the end of her days. Along with the memory of a giant of a man gently reassuring her during...
During the Second World War, Count Andrei Sheptytsky, the metropolitan of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church (UGCC), rescued approximately 100–150 Jews, both adults and children. This well-known fact figures in numerous scholarly and semi-popular books...
Ukrainian statehood from the perspective of December 1941 [Editor's note: For this year's winter reading, we offer two articles by scholar Liliana Hentosh that explore Metropolitan Andrey Sheptytsky's view on Ukrainian statehood. Yesterday's article explored...
The metropolitan was not adequately informed about the political processes surrounding this plan [Editor's note: For this year's Winter Reading, we offer two articles by scholar Liliana Hentosh that explore Metropolitan Andrey Sheptytsky's view on...
[Editor's note: The theme of the 28th International BookForum, which took place in Lviv on 15–19 September 2021, was "The Game of Growing Up." The Canadian charitable non-profit organization Ukrainian Jewish Encounter held several important...
Eighty-seven years ago, in early July 1934, the representatives of two different worlds met at the metropolitan's residence on St. George's Terrace in the Lviv of the time. Count Andrei Sheptytsky, Metropolitan of the Ukrainian...
Published for the first time are records of messages, letters from Metropolitan Andrei Sheptytsky, and acts of the Metropolitan Ordinariate from the time of the German occupation of Eastern Galicia (1941–1944), that were kept by...
My immersion in this man’s biography began by accident. I discovered a brief reference in an article stating that Metropolitan Andrei Sheptytsky had expressed support for Zionism and the creation of a Jewish state in...
The metropolitan on unity against the backdrop of the reigning ideas of Nazism and racial separation Metropolitan Andrei Sheptytsky did not leave behind any collections of philosophical or theological works or major fundamental treatises. He...
“When something nice is said in Israel about Ukrainians, people go on the attack right away. I have been attacked many a time. It’s the same with Poles, but Ukrainians get the worst of it....
[Editor’s note: On 7 March 2020, Israel’s The Jerusalem Post published an opinion piece by Liliana Hentosh titled “Time to reject the myths of Andrei Sheptytsky” in which the author argued for an accurate portrayal...
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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.
