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...
Volodymyr Muzychenko, a public figure, regional ethnographer, and author of the book Jewish Volodymyr, speaks about the stories of Ukrainians who rescued Jews during World War II. Volodymyr Muzychenko heads the Jewish community of Volodymyr...
Tetiana Hetsilevych, program director of Project Kesher Ukraine, talks about the importance of connecting with ancestors and how the organization tries to bring Ukrainian Jewry to the Ukrainian language. Yelyzaveta Tsarehradska: Our conversation is one...
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...
[Editor’s note: Vasyl Makhno is a Ukrainian poet, novelist, and essayist who is a laureate of many awards, including “Encounter: The Ukrainian-Jewish Literary Prize"™ (2020), sponsored by the Canadian charitable non-profit organization Ukrainian Jewish Encounter...
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....
The 32nd issue of the "Yehupets" almanac is divided into two parts: the war and the pre-war period. The "war" block of the almanac includes Timothy Snyder's article 9 Theses on Putin's Fascism, Konstantin Sigov's...
Ukraine’s Dukh i Litera publishing house and the Center for the Studies of History and Culture of East European Jewry of the Ukrainian National Academy of Sciences in Kyiv have published several hundred important publications in the...
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,...
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.
