This is a transcript of a speech delivered by historian Timothy Snyder of Yale University at a conference on Germany’s Historical Responsibility towards Ukraine held in the German Bundestag, on 20 June 2017. The event...
Today the focus of our conversation on Encounters is Timothy Snyder’s book, Black Earth: The Holocaust as History and Warning, the Ukrainian translation of which was recently issued by the Medusa publishing house. My guest...
Ihor Shchupak, the director of the Tkuma Ukrainian Institute for Holocaust Studies, is our guest on the program Encounters. Iryna Slavinska: You are listening to Hromadske Radio with Iryna Slavinska and the program Encounters. Today...
The revelation came in California. “We went to one of the redwood parks. I was looking at redwood trees, sequoia trees, and I saw them and I remember just thinking about how much those trees...
A quiet village set amidst rolling hills, forests, and ravines. A revered monastery. And four stories of salvation. A compelling article by Oksana Sikorska in the Ukrainian journal Zbruch outlines the remarkable role of the...
On today’s show, we are talking with Ola Hnatiuk about her book Courage and Fear. This work will be of interest to readers who are fascinated by national history as seen through the prism of...
Anatoly Podolsky is the director of the Ukrainian Center for Holocaust Studies and holds the degree of Candidate of Historical Sciences. In this installment of Encounters we discuss remembrance, memorials, and enlightenment in the context...
Babyn Yar today is a tree-lined park on the outskirts of Kyiv that offers the city’s residents refuge from the scorching summer heat. Seventy-five years ago, this peaceful setting of parkland was the site of...
[Editor’s note: Lviv’s Space of Synagogues project was unveiled on Sept. 4, 2016. We are running the transcript of an interview with Sofia Dyak of the Center for Urban History that originally aired last year...
Welcome to Ukrainian Jewish Heritage on Nash Holos Ukrainian Roots Radio. I’m Peter Bejger. It’s never too late to have a happy childhood. An astonishing new film called Shimon’s Returns proves the point in a...
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.
