Russia's invasion of Ukraine on 24 February 2022 shocked the world. For months, Western governments had warned of the impending criminal war — "absurd," the world responded. In the 21st century, larger powers invading smaller...
On 17 October 2024, the Krytyka Publishing House and Journal, together with the Krytyka Community NGO and Ukrainian Jewish Encounter (UJE), held a presentation of the collection of essays This Is War: Ukrainian Writers on...
On 3 October 2024, the Krytyka Publishing House and Journal, together with the Krytyka Community NGO and the Ukrainian Jewish Encounter (UJE), held a presentation of the collection of essays This Is War: Ukrainian Writers...
Originally appeared @Krytyka By Maksym Gon But I don't rule out that something else should come to replace being in the captivity of collective trauma. Perhaps it's a kind of symbiosis reflecting that we, despite...
By Olena Stiazhkina Originally appeared @Krytyka Space can be nameless. Without a capital letter at the beginning of the word. A plantation, a forest belt, a road, a field. You can add the word "mines"...
By Váno Krueger Originally appeared @Krytyka War is a disease that isn't localized on the front. As syphilis ultimately infects the entire body, not just the initially affected area, war infects all of society. War...
By Iya Kiva Originally appeared @Krytyka In war, poetry is definitely not a soldier. It’s more like a shout instead of a gunshot. That’s why Ukrainian poets often remind me of people who, after a...
By Svitlana Oslavska Originally appeared @Krytyka What we, journalists, and all war documentarians are doing today is a memorial. Russia failed to conceal its actions from the world and from history. Testimonies of these atrocities...
By Andriy Lyubka Originally appeared @Krytyka War is about more than heroes and valor. In essence, war touches every one of us, even those who are far from the front line and without shrapnel wounds....
By Oksana Forostyna Originally appeared @Krytyka In March 2022, I wrote a piece for Krytyka called “Postwar.” Parts of Kyiv and Kharkiv oblasts, as well as the Chornobyl Nuclear Power Plant, were still occupied then,...
Originally appeared @Krytyka By Kostiantyn Moskalets It was a gloomy November 2021. There were more than enough signs of the trouble that was coming. Let’s just say that I surprised myself by setting aside all...
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.
