For hundreds of years, Ukraine fought for independence and built plans for a free future. It made sense of its complicated past, in which one of the most important aspects was resistance to conquest, division,...
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...
We continue our series of publications dedicated to the Ukrainian Righteous Among the Nations. We will now look at those saviors of Jews who come from cities affected by the ongoing Russian invasion. Mariupol Mariupol,...
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...
How should one talk with young people about the Holocaust? [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...
[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...
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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.
