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...
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...
What is Zionism, on what basis was it formed, and what should be done to make people understand that there is no antisemitism in Ukraine? These questions are discussed by Roman Kabachiy, a senior researcher...
Our guest is Yuri (Amir) Radchenko, Ph.D. in History, co-founder of the Center for Interethnic Relations Research in Eastern Europe, and acting rabbi in Masoret, a traditional (conservative) Jewish community in Kyiv. International conference on...
Our guest is Olena Zaslavska, director of the International Interdisciplinary Certificate Program in Jewish Studies and executive director of the Zionist Federation of Ukraine. She talks about Jewish studies in Ukraine and the interaction between...
Faina Baiek talks about the Bratslav Jewish History Museum, the activities of the local Jewish community during the war, and her family's survival experience. Baiek is a native of Bratslav and has led the Jewish...
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.
