The publication Islands of Memory is the result of the Agnon Literary Residency, which took place in Buchach, Ukraine, in 2021 as COVID shutdowns were coming to an end, and before Russia’s full-scale invasion of...
Part 2 reviews the main discoveries and conclusions that can be drawn from the series of publications on the history of the Holocaust in western Volynian cities and small towns entitled Life and Death of...
[Editor’s note: The annual Meridian Czernowitz International Poetry Festival will take place in Chernivtsi, the birthplace of Paul Celan, from 5-7 September 2025.] Petro Rykhlo, a literary critic, translator, and Professor of the Department of...
The series of semi-academic publications entitled The Life and Death of Jewish Communities, issued in 2023, examines the Holocaust as it unfolded in various cities and towns of Ukraine. The following article seeks to interpret...
Valentyn Bushansky, PhD in political science and junior sergeant of the 244th battalion in the 112th Territorial Defense Brigade of Ukraine, discusses the works of Isaac Babel and his difficult relationship with Ukraine. He was...
Art Barbalat of New Books Network interviews Paul Robert Magocsi about the book Jews and Ukrainians: A Millennium of Co-Existence There is much that ordinary Ukrainians do not know about Jews and that ordinary Jews...
Silent witnesses of past centuries are hidden in the depths of the Ukrainian landscape among its hills, streets, and ruins. Ukraine's Jewish cultural heritage survives not only in words and memories but also in forms,...
Vladyslava Moskalets A Polish translation of Ghosts of Home: The Afterlife of Czernowitz in Jewish Memory, by Marianne Hirsch, a specialist on Holocaust memory, and Leo Spitzer, was published in Poland in 2023. This book...
[Editor’s note: This program originally aired on 30 January 2025 in observance of Holocaust Remembrance Day.] Roza Tapanova, director of the Babyn Yar National Historical and Memorial Reserve, discusses a new exhibition. On the exhibition...
The VYSHYVANKA FEST 2025 festival was held with great success in Ashkelon, southern Israel's largest city, which is adjacent to the Gaza Strip and has repeatedly been subjected to rocket attacks by terrorists. Yevhen Korniychuk,...
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.
