The Ukrainian Jewish Encounter is proud to announce its sponsorship of a new program on Ukraine’s public radio network Hromadske Radio. Called “Zustrichi,” or “Encounters,” the show will explore the diverse relationship between Ukrainians and...
Ukrainian Jewish Heritage is a radio series of vignettes highlighting the significant Jewish contribution to Ukraine’s cultural heritage and nation-building efforts over the centuries. The vignettes are presented in English and explore a variety of...
[Editor’s note: This interview originally appeared on 25 September 2023. Yom Kippur in 2024 begins at sundown on Friday, 11 October 2024 and ends at nightfall on Saturday, 12 October 2024.] Our guest is Rebbetzin...
A conversation about the Holocaust in Transcarpathia with the historian Yuriy Slavik, Candidate of Historical Sciences and researcher of the Holocaust in Transcarpathia. Vasyl Shandro: When we talk about Transcarpathia and the history of Jewish...
A conversation about entrepreneurship and business in Ukraine in the second half of the nineteenth–early twentieth centuries, particularly the sector that was in the hands of the Jewish community. The second half of the nineteenth...
Our guest is Abraham Kefeli, a hazzan and teacher of computer music, music theory, piano, arrangement, and composition. He is a Karaite who was born in Simferopol and now lives in Israel. On 9 August,...
Art critic Bohdana Pinchevska talks about secular Jewish art of Eastern Galicia in 1900–1939. Bohdana Pinchevska's book on secular Jewish art Yelyzaveta Tsarehradska: Today, we will talk about your book. This book, I'm sure, is...
This Hromadske Radio broadcast is about Olena Ahamian, Liubov Rapoport, their development as painters, and their Jewish context. The guest in the studio is painter Olena Ahamian, Liubov Rapoport's sister. How Liubov Rapoport's and Olena...
The program's guest, art critic and translator Diana Klochko, discusses the outstanding ceramicist Olga Rapay-Markish. Diana Klochko: I got to talk to Olga Rapay-Markish thanks to Leonid Finberg, who invited me to her studio as...
This episode of the Encounters program is about the Kultur Lige, a Jewish secular cultural and educational organization that was founded in Kyiv and operated in 1918-24. The program's guest is Leonid Finberg, a sociologist,...
Taras Vozniak, a culture expert, political analyst, editor-in-chief and founder of the Ji independent cultural journal, talks about shtetls as a social and cultural phenomenon. What is a shtetl? Yelyzaveta Tsarehradska: Let us begin our...
"I am not afraid of the word zhyd. It does not hurt me, and I want it not to hurt anyone else." So says the poet and translator Oleksandr Averbuch during a conversation about his...
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.
