In 1966, the Israeli writer Shmuel Yosef Agnon was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature for his book A Guest for the Night. Set in the eastern Galician town of Buchach after the First World...
More than a thousand Israelis attended the third annual “Ethno-khutir” Ukrainian cultural heritage festival in Tel Aviv on 12 May 2017. The non-profit organization Israeli Friends of Ukraine, with the assistance of the Canadian charitable...
Buchach is the homeland of the Nobel Laureate writer Agnon. In this program we talk about the Agnon Literature Center that aims to “put Buchach on the literary map of the world.” Shmuel Yosef Agnon...
Welcome to Ukrainian Jewish Heritage on Nash Holos Ukrainian Roots Radio. I’m Peter Bejger. https://ukrainianjewishencounter.org/media/UJH-2015-1225-Agnon-Buchach.mp3 Today—some reflections on periphery and center, the province and global culture, and a literary legacy interrupted, lost, and re-imagined. Buchach is...
More than 500 Israelis took part in the very successful Ukrainian Style festival on November 6 in Tel Aviv. Despite raining cats and dogs, the Havana Club was packed with guests. It turned out that...
The Israeli non-governmental organization Israeli Friends of Ukraine will receive the 2015 Omelyan Kovch Award, announced award committee spokesman Stepan Stasiuk. This will be the fifth annual presentation of the award named after the Blessed...
In this episode of the podcast “Encounters” we talk about the work of the “Israeli Friends of Ukraine.” The project “Encounters” is produced with the support of the Canadian fund Ukrainian Jewish Encounter. Iryna Slavinska:...
Over six hundred kilograms of warm winter clothes in 53 boxes collected from Ashdod and Netanya in the center and south of Israel were sorted and prepared for shipment to Ukraine on 25 October 2014....
The Israeli Parliament’s television channel covered the pro-Ukrainian march in Tel-Aviv on 18 September 2014, which was organized by the “Israel Supports Ukraine” group and led by Ilya Sokolov. Yana Suriadna, the foreign affairs correspondent...
An increasing number of new initiatives and events reflect growing Israeli grassroots support for Ukraine. The "Warm Gifts" project was started in early October by the Facebook group "Israel Supports Ukraine." The group posted the...
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.
