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    What is Judaica, or how do “open universities” combine history, languages, and religion?

    Posted On: October 22nd, 2018
    Posted In: Hromadske Radio, Ukrainian- Jewish Relations History, Sponsored Projects, History, Audio/Visual Media

    We are speaking with the president of the Ukrainian Association for Jewish Studies about the multidisciplinary research being done at young Ukrainian universities. Andriy Kobalia:  In Ukraine today Jewish Studies, that is, Judaica, are offered...

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    How did the Zionists live in Soviet Ukraine?

    Posted On: October 16th, 2018
    Posted In: Jews on Ukrainian Lands, Hromadske Radio, Sponsored Projects, History

    We are talking with the historian Viktor Husiev about Zionist parties in Soviet Ukraine during the 1920s. The founder of Zionism, the Jewish movement for the creation of a state in the historical fatherland of...

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    Compelling book describes heartbreaking difficulties of mass migration of Eastern European Jews

    Posted On: October 8th, 2018
    Posted In: Literature, Nash Holos, Sponsored Projects, Audio/Visual Media

    Who closes the door? And who can open it? Who escapes? And who doesn’t? A compelling book entitled The Great Departure: Mass Migration from Eastern Europe and the Making of the Free World by Tara...

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    Interview with Alti Rodal, Co-Director of UJE. (Part 2 of 2)

    Posted On: September 18th, 2018
    Posted In: A Journey through the Ukrainian-Jewish Encounter, Nash Holos, Sponsored Projects, Audio/Visual Media, Exhibits

    [Editor’s note: A Journey Through the Ukrainian-Jewish Encounter: From Antiquity to 1914, the museum catalogue discussed below, debuted in Canada 15 September 2018 at  the Toronto Ukrainian Festival and will debut in Ukraine on 20...

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    Interview with Alti Rodal, Co-Director of UJE. (Part 1 of 2)

    Posted On: September 17th, 2018
    Posted In: UJE Initiatives, A Journey through the Ukrainian-Jewish Encounter, Nash Holos, Sponsored Projects, Audio/Visual Media, Exhibits

    In this episode of Ukrainian Jewish Heritage, UJE Co-Director Alti Rodal discusses a new exhibit catalogue, their upcoming ROM exhibit and museum developments in Ukraine. (Part 1 of a 2-part interview.) [Editor’s note: A Journey...

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    Historian discusses how museums can tackle difficult issues of history

    Posted On: August 31st, 2018
    Posted In: Nash Holos, Sponsored Projects, Visual Arts, Culture, Audio/Visual Media

    History, trauma, and the museum space. Museums can offer many faces to the world. From dusty collections of artefacts to dramatic arenas outlining—or avoiding—compelling national or cultural narratives. A recent lecture sponsored by the Center...

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    How and what do we want to remember? The Historian Andriy Portnov discusses genocides in Ukraine

    Posted On: July 30th, 2018
    Posted In: Hromadske Radio, Sponsored Projects, The Holocaust in Ukraine, Audio/Visual Media, Holodomor

    The historian Andriy Portnov is at the Encounters studio today. Our conversation is pegged to the annual roundtable “Ukrainian Society and the Memory of the Holocaust: Scholarly and Educational Aspects,” which took place on 27...

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    Boris Gudziak: “The ability to accept the Other and his dignity is a challenge for us all”

    Posted On: July 4th, 2018
    Posted In: Commentary, Hromadske Radio, Sponsored Projects, Audio/Visual Media, Commentary and Analysis

    Borys Gudziak, bishop of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church, talks about Ukraine and Ukrainians as a multicultural community and parish. We are also talking about trust between the secular and church milieus. Today our guest...

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    How has the face of Lutsk changed? The history of three Jewish quarters

    Posted On: June 27th, 2018
    Posted In: Jews on Ukrainian Lands, Hromadske Radio, Sponsored Projects, History, Audio/Visual Media

    Regional historian Oleksandr Kotys talks about the lost city, the small, narrow streets of the Jewish quarters, and the rise of the Lutsk ghetto. In the center of Lutsk stands the eighteenth-century Great Synagogue. Permission...

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    Poetry festival celebrates the historical memory and literary legacy of Chernivtsi, Ukraine

    Posted On: June 22nd, 2018
    Posted In: Literature, Nash Holos, Sponsored Projects, Culture, Audio/Visual Media

    Poetry in a time of war. Such is the headline by the German newspaper Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, or FAZ, in its recent reporting on the dynamic annual poetry festival Meridian Czernowitz, held earlier in September...

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    • UJE Initiatives
      • Encounter: The Ukrainian-Jewish Literary Prize
      • Babyn Yar Commemoration (1941-2016)
      • All-Ukrainian student's drawing competition
      • Sheptytsky Award
      • Symposia
        • Israel’s Experience of Nation-Building: Lessons for Ukraine
      • Shared Historical Narrative
      • Exhibits
        • A Journey through the Ukrainian-Jewish Encounter
      • Outreach
        • Book Fairs/Festivals
        • Limmud FSU
        • World Jewish Congress
    • Sponsored Projects
      • Dukh i Litera Digital Library
      • Krytyka, "War is…"
      • Publications
        • eBook: "Jews and Ukrainians: A Millennium of Co-Existence"
      • Audio/Visual Media
        • Hromadske Radio
        • Nash Holos
        • Kontakt TV
        • Finding Babel
      • Other Programs
        • Hadashot
        • Agnon Literary Centre
        • Ukraina Moderna
        • Zahid.net
        • The Odessa Review
        • Israeli Friends of Ukraine
        • Istorychna Pravda
        • Special Projects
    • Culture
      • Did You Know?
      • Literature
      • Visual Arts
      • Music
      • Theatre
      • Cinema
      • Architecture
      • Language
      • Ethnography
      • Religion
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    • History
      • Jews on Ukrainian Lands
      • Ukrainian- Jewish Relations History
      • The Holocaust in Ukraine
      • Ukrainians who saved Jews
      • Holodomor
      • Metropolitan Andrei Sheptytsky
      • Ukraine: A History Course
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    Ukrainian Jewish Encounter Timeline wins international recognition while countering Russian propaganda

    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.

    Explore the UJE Timeline

    As Ukraine defends its very existence against Russia, the Ukrainian Jewish Encounter Timeline serves to counter the malicious and false narratives about Ukraine and its history. The Timeline demonstrates that Ukraine is home to diverse peoples and, for centuries, one of the world’s oldest and largest Jewish communities.

    Since its launch in September 2022, the UJE Timeline has earned international recognition by winning eight international awards:

    Web Excellence Awards:

    • Excellence — Website Non-profit (2023)

    w3 Awards:

    • Silver — Website Non-profit (2023)
    • Silver — Website Best Structure and Navigation (2023)
    • Silver— Website Best Visual Appeal and Aesthetics (2023)

    Anthem Awards:

    • Bronze — Website Digital and Innovative Experiences (2024)

    Communicator Awards:

    • Gold — Website Non-Profit (2024)
    • Silver — Website Structure and Navigation (2024)
    • Silver — Website Visual Appeal and Aesthetics (2024).

     

    Encounter: The Ukrainian-Jewish Literary Prize  

    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."

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    Download the complete 168-page book

    A Journey Through the Ukrainian-Jewish Encounter

    FROM ANTIQUITY TO 1914

    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.

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    2021/2022

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