This 23 June 2021 discussion was devoted to “Ukrainian authors in Buchach” featuring writers Andrei Kurkov and Vasyl Makhno who spoke about Ukraine’s contemporary literature at the First International Agnon Festival. Also featured was Mariana...
Ukrainian Jewish Encounter, the Agnon Literary Center (Buchach, Ukraine) and the NGO “Publishers Forum” (Lviv, Ukraine) are supporters of the First International Agnon Festival, which will be held live via Zoom and Facebook between June...
The residency for writers, essayists, and translators organized by the Agnon Literary Center in Buchach has already taken place twice. Over the course of a week, participants are invited to reside in the city where...
Ukrainian Jewish Encounter, the Agnon Literary Center (Buchach, Ukraine) and the NGO "Publishers Forum" (Lviv, Ukraine) are supporters of the First International Agnon Festival, which will be held live via Zoom and Facebook between June...
The publication Light on the Hills is the result of the Agnon literary residency, which took place from September to December 2019, in Buchach, Ukraine. This is the second residency to gather Ukrainian writers in...
From ancient times a story has drifted through various cultures about remarkable masters who are destroyed or maimed by a powerful client so that they will never again create something similar for anyone else. This...
I am still plagued by the thought: What did Agnon feel after returning home? I am trying to imagine this in more detail: How an incredulous expression appears on his face when the train is...
The small cities of western Ukraine truly amaze the residents of eastern Ukraine, which also has beautiful and unforgettable large cities: Odesa, Kharkiv—and Kyiv, after all. But the former provincial cities of eastern Ukraine, if...
To forget nothing If Buchach is a city of returning, then I got back in time. Are they not for me, these unpainted and unplastered facades of buildings lining the narrow streets above the Strypa...
The launch of Sofia Andrukhovych’s just-published novel Amadoka was supposed to take place at the Mystetskyi Arsenal National Art and Culture Museum Complex on 21 March 2020. Over two hundred people were expected at this...
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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.
