Despite the fact that an inclusive memory of the victims of the Nazi regime is being formed in Ukraine, why does the Roma genocide remain on the sidelines? To a significant degree, this is a...
The continuation of a conversation with Olena Braichenko, founder of the yizhakultura project, about contemporary Ukrainian cuisine and the variety of cultural trends that can be found in it. Iryna Slavinska: Speaking of home cooking,...
We talked about the interesting culinary areas that can be observed in Ukrainian culture. Olena Braichenko, the founder of the yizhakultura project, will help us figure things out. Olena Braichenko: The link between Ukrainian cuisine...
[Editor’s note: In honor of International Holocaust Remembrance Day, we are running a two-part series with famed Kyiv-born artist Matviy Vaisberg that aired on Hromadske Radio in 2020. The second part of the interview discusses...
[Editor’s note: Today the world is honoring the memory of the victims of the Holocaust. On 27 January 1945 Soviet troops of the First Ukrainian Front liberated the prisoners of the largest Nazi death camp,...
“A genocide begins with the killing of one man—not for what he has done, but because of who he is,” declared the diplomat and former United Nations General-Secretary Kofi Annan. [1] This apt statement requires some clarification, and it gives...
This is the title of a seminar devoted to the study of the Holocaust and the Holodomor, which was held in Israel in December 2020. The featured speakers were historians and researchers who work in...
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...
The Ukrainian Jewish Encounter supported the Ukrainian-language translation and publication of two books by the great Israeli writer Aharon Appelfeld Kateryna and Blooms of Darkness. Both books were translated by his long-time translator Victor Radutsky...
The sixth German–Ukrainian meeting of writers belonging to the Paperbridge Circle took place on 10–11 September in the form of the Paperbridge Circle 2020 telebridge between Ivano-Frankivsk and Berlin. The conversation with the writer Yuri...
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.
