Welcome to Ukrainian Jewish Heritage on Nash Holos Ukrainian Roots Radio. I’m Peter Bejger. Courage and fear. The first quality mobilizes action. The second emotion can paralyze the brain, but not always the heart....
Welcome to Ukrainian Jewish Heritage on Nash Holos Ukrainian Roots Radio. I’m Peter Bejger. Memory. Commemoration. Responsibility. The seventy-fifth anniversary of the Babyn Yar tragedy in Kyiv will be soon upon us. This anniversary is...
Welcome to Ukrainian Jewish Heritage on Nash Holos Ukrainian Roots Radio. I’m Peter Bejger. Details are important. In fact, details are crucial—whether for tracing a family tree or building a legal case. For example, a...
Welcome to Ukrainian Jewish Heritage on Nash Holos Ukrainian Roots Radio. I’m Peter Bejger. Memory. Manipulation. Memorials. Babyn Yar, the ravine on the outskirts of Kyiv, Ukraine, is a multi-ethnic and multi-faith necropolis. A city...
Iryna Slavinska: Welcome to the program “Encounters” on Hromadske Radio, supported by the Ukrainian Jewish Encounter. This fresh edition of the program “Encounters” is dedicated to the topic of Jewish silhouettes in modern Ukrainian literature....
Welcome to all our listeners of Hromadske Radio. I am Vakhtang Kipiani and the show “Encounters” is on the air. Our goal is to explore Ukrainian-Jewish relations from ancient times to the present. Our guest...
The historian and Executive Secretary of the Public Committee for the Commemoration of the Victims of Babyn Yar speaks about the competition for creating a memorial park space in Babyn Yar. Vitaliy Nakhmanovych is a...
Robert Paul Magocsi, curator of the events to mark the anniversary, speaks about the program planned by the Ukrainian Jewish Encounter. Iryna Slavinska: The seventy-fifth anniversary is a very serious challenge for Ukraine and for...
Welcome to Ukrainian Jewish Heritage on Nash Holos Ukrainian Roots Radio. I’m Peter Bejger. One of the old jokes during the Communist era in Eastern Europe was the quip that you could never predict history....
Josef Zissels is the chairman of the Association of Jewish Communities and Organizations of Ukraine (Vaad) and vice-president of the World Jewish Congress. The program “Encounters” is on the air and we are talking about...
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.
