Briefly, the phrase “to go to Buchach” came to me when I was five years old. But what is this Buchach? Who is it? I didn’t know. Where is it, anyway? When Buchach was talked...
After all, like always, everything is resolved by optics and context. My second visit to Buchach happened once again in autumn, when the foliage and the sun recede slowly, exposing the stone backbone of the...
Khersonsky talks about the repressions against the Jews, the Yiddish language, and family memory. Our guest today is the poet Boris Khersonsky. Our talk is pegged to a sad but very crucial date, 12 August...
Yevheniya Kononenko, a Ukrainian writer, translator from the French and English, author of feminist prose works, and a resident of Kyiv, did a residency at the Agnon Literary Center in Buchach. She stayed for one...
This is Encounters, a program dedicated to Ukrainian-Jewish relations. Today we are talking about diversity as a resource. This topic was inspired by a Facebook posting authored by Iryna Solovey, the co-founder of Garage Gang....
At the beginning of the last century, the Jewish writer Shmuel Agnon meticulously evoked in his books what life was like in his native city in Galicia. Later he became the first Hebrew-speaking writer to...
Our conversation today will be a literary one. This is a fine continuation of a series of talks about new books, particularly about work in the genre of graphic texts. Our guest is Tetiana Borodina,...
In his native land Aizenshtein’s name was consigned to oblivion, despite the fact that after Popov’s death in 1906 he became his spiritual successor and the most prominent national figure in the field of radio...
Today our talk is taking place in connection with a conference that took place recently in Odesa and which was devoted to the topic of Ukrainian-Jewish relations and Ukrainian-Jewish literary contacts. Our guest is Oleksandra...
Today we are talking about a new prize that was unveiled in December 2019: “Encounter: The Ukrainian-Jewish Literary Prize.” It is sponsored by the Canadian philanthropic fund Ukrainian Jewish Encounter, which supports this podcast featured...
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.
