For more than 25 years, the Ukrainian publishing house Dukh i Litera has introduced readers to Ukrainian and world classics, as well as to the latest research in the fields of philosophy, history, social sciences,...
The texts presented in this book are Josef Zissels’ understanding of the different vectors of his activities in recent years. Zissels is a social activist, a member of the Ukrainian Helsinki Group and the "First...
Leonid Finberg is a sociologist, public figure, editor-in-chief of Ukraine's "Dukh i Litera" publishing house, director of the Center for Researching the History and Culture of Eastern European Jewry of the National Academy of Sciences...
This Ukrainian-language book Pages of Ukraine’s Jewish: A Textbook for Lyceum Students is part of the Dukh i Litera digital library project. The book is edited by Natalia Ryndiuk, Natalia Bakulina and Anna Umanska. It covers a...
This book by Zhanna Kovba is based on archival sources, memoirs and oral histories recorded by the author of indigenous Galicians — Ukrainians, Poles, Jews — witnesses to events, and who considered the social and...
The poems by Marianna Kiyanovska are dedicated to the memory of Babyn Yar. Marianna Kiyanovska is a poet, translator, literary critic, member of the Association of Ukrainian Writers and the National Union of Writers of...
The protagonist of this biography, Jacob Orenstein, was a son of the “People of the Book”, the child of a bookseller-traveling salesman and a Jewish highlander. His life and work encompassed several political states —...
Published for the first time are records of messages, letters from Metropolitan Andrei Sheptytsky, and acts of the Metropolitan Ordinariate from the time of the German occupation of Eastern Galicia (1941–1944), that were kept by...
The reader is offered a collection of interviews recorded by Iza Khruslinska and Petro Tyma over the course of several years to introduce actors in current historic events. Among them are scientists, publicists, dissidents and...
In conversations with the renowned Polish journalist Iza Khruslinska, Josef Zissels – former political prisoner and dissident, head of the Association of the Jewish Organizations and Communities of Ukraine, executive vice-president of the Congress of...
This book, which belongs to the Dukh i Litera digital library project, is a bilingual edition of selected works from Taras Shevchenko's Kobzar. All Yiddish translations included here were made throughout the 1920s and 1930s...
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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 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.
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.
