In this episode of the podcast “Encounters” we talk about the work of the “Israeli Friends of Ukraine.” The project “Encounters” is produced with the support of the Canadian fund Ukrainian Jewish Encounter. Iryna Slavinska:...
Vasyl Ovsienko is a philologist who was a teacher and took part in distributing “samvydav” (self-published material illegal under Soviet law, editor’s note). He was a long-term Soviet political prisoner and spent many years imprisoned...
The contemporary Ukrainian philosopher and director of European Programs of Internews Ukraine Volodymyr Yermolenko talks about a number of important European thinkers of Jewish heritage, their influence on the world of ideas, and Ukrainian roots....
Yurko Prohasko, translator of the Ukrainian-language version of the book Maybe Esther by Katya Petrovska, will participate in a discussion with Hromadske Radio’s Iryna Slavinska on April 23, 2015 at 19:00 at the “Papir” Hall...
Today Iryna Slavinska is talking with Ihor Turov, Doctor of Historical Sciences and teacher at Kyiv-Mohyla Academy. Dr. Turov is a specialist on the Hasidism, and therefore this talk is dedicated to the life of...
Leonid Finberg is the editor-in-chief of the publishing house Dukh i Litera and the director of the Judaica Center at Kyiv-Mohyla Academy. For the project “Encounters” we talk about the architects of mutual understanding from...
Ihor Pomerantsev is a famous poet and journalist, author, and host of the truly cult radio show “Over The Barrier” on Radio Liberty. For the project “Encounters” Ihor Pomerantsev talks about the polyphony of Chernivtsi,...
Larysa Denysenko is a renowned Ukrainian writer. In her novels she often talks about a Kyivan world that for her is impossible to imagine without the image of Jewish families. To illustrate this, the writer...
Robert Paul Magocsi is a renowned historian and a researcher of the history of Ukraine. He brings a particular point of view in his attention to the multi-nationalism of Ukrainian lands. Professor Magocsi described for...
The renowned Ukrainian writer Yuri Andrukhovych was featured in the inaugural Hromadske (Public) Radio broadcast of “Encounters,” a new program devoted to Ukrainian-Jewish relations. Yuri Andrukhovych is currently working on Eight Former Synagogues, or Labels...
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.
