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 book of the German literary critic and translator Petro Rykhlo introduces the reader to the polyphonic sound of Paul Celan's poetry, structured according to the principle of multi-layered intellectual and emotional palimpsests when the...
The Librarian Bear invites children aged 3-10 and their parents to join the "Let's Read Together" club in Ukrainian. This is a virtual reading club of the "Let's Read" digital library. In this club, you...
This book is the first collection of Ukrainian translations of poems by Osip Mandelshtam (1891–1938), created over the past five decades. The poems of Mandelshtam, a world-class poet who was both biographically and creatively connected...
This book is the first collection of Ukrainian translations of prose by Osip Mandelshtam (1891–1938). The book includes the poet’s leading famous works of prose ("Egyptian Mark", "The Noise of Time", "Feodosia", etc.), literary criticism...
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 —...
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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 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.
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.
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.
