We are continuing our conversation about Jewish theater. In the first part we talked about the founding of Jewish theater and its work on the territory of contemporary Ukraine from the late nineteenth century until...
We are talking about Jewish theater in Ukraine and the publication Wandering Stars in Ukraine: Pages from the History of Jewish Theater. Our guest in the studio today is the theater critic Iryna Meleshkina, who...
The former dissident Josef Zissels, who heads the Association of the Jewish Organizations and Communities of Ukraine and is the executive vice-president of the Congress of Ethnic Communities of Ukraine, talked about changes in civic society,...
We will be talking about the incredible graphic novel Maus by Art Spiegelman, who won the Pulitzer Prize in 1992, with his translator, Yaroslava Strikha. Listeners of Hromadske Radio already heard about this Ukrainian-language publication...
Today we are speaking with Lilia Omelianenko, cofounder of the Vydavnytstvo Publishing House, about the graphic novel Maus: A Survivor’s Tale which will soon appear in a Ukrainian translation. It was written by the American...
Social historian Daryna Podhornova, who researches women’s history, discusses the lives of Jewish women in gubernial cities and small shtetls, and explains how education was connected with revolution. Iryna Slavinska: We met on the occasion...
Today our guest on Encounters is Taras Liutyi, the Ukrainian philosopher, writer, and professor in the Faculty of Philosophy and Religious Studies at the National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy. We will be talking about the...
Khersonsky talks about the repressions against the Jews, the Yiddish language, and family memory. Our guest today is the poet Boris Khersonsky. Our talk is pegged to a sad but very crucial date, 12 August...
This is Encounters, a program dedicated to Ukrainian-Jewish relations. Today we are talking about diversity as a resource. This topic was inspired by a Facebook posting authored by Iryna Solovey, the co-founder of Garage Gang....
Our conversation today will be a literary one. This is a fine continuation of a series of talks about new books, particularly about work in the genre of graphic texts. Our guest is Tetiana Borodina,...
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.
