Today we are talking with Oleksandra Uralova, the philologist and translator of Tevye the Dairyman, about Kyiv/Yehupets, the man who “lives on air,” and the era of Sholem Aleichem. Sholem Aleichem lived in an era...
For the past eight years Anna Khromova has been living in Israel, where she works as a translator and poet. Anna is known for her Ukrainian translation of the book They Cry from the War...
Professor Shimon Redlich was saved by a Ukrainian family during the Holocaust. We talk with him about Andrei Sheptytsky and the reasons why he has not been awarded the title of Righteous Among the Nations....
Yuri Andrukhovych and Ivan Monolatii discuss the history of one Galician city. Andriy Kobalia: Western Ukrainians are still nostalgic about the period when the stillness of the forests began to be disrupted by arriving trains,...
Ze’ev Volkov, a tour guide and employee of the Tel Avi-Yafo Municipal Museum and the Bialik Museum, talks about Tel Aviv and its history, and discusses the contribution of émigrés from Ukraine and other...
Ze’ev Volkov, a tour guide and employee of Bialik House [Tel Aviv], talks about the poet who spent his childhood in Zhytomyr following the death of his father, and eventually became a national Jewish poet....
The historian Maksym Gon talks about the Jewish community against the background of the [post-First World War] Ukrainian-Polish confrontation, Ukrainian-Jewish cooperation during elections in Poland, and the Jews of Bukovyna and Transcarpathia in the interwar...
We are speaking with the director Akhtem Seitablaev about his new film A Prayer of Strangers. At the beginning of the conversation we are introduced to Saide, the main character of the film. Akhtem Seitablaev:...
Today we are talking about the specific features of humor in the magazine Perets [Pepper], which often featured themes exploring Ukrainian-Jewish relations in cartoons depicting the interaction between “Zionists” and “Ukrainian bourgeois nationalists.” Iryna Slavinska:...
Andriy Kobalia: Welcome to the program Encounters. I’m Andriy Kobalia. Today we will be talking about the Jewish history of Vinnystia. Vinnytsia was founded in the fourteenth century and was initially a fortress of the...
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.
