Paul Robert Magocsi was joined recently by French scholar Philippe de Lara for a presentation of the award-winning book Jews and Ukrainians: A Millennium of Co-Existence in Paris, France. For our French-speaking friends, we offer...
Prize-winning writer Marsha Forchuk Skrypuch unveiled her book Don’t Tell the Enemy in Toronto to an enthusiastic audience made up largely of young people on February 23, 2018. Don’t Tell the Enemy is the story...
Dmytro Tyshchenko is a Ukrainian philologist and a Germanist who specializes in Yiddish. He created the Yiddish-Russian (2013) and the Yiddish-Ukrainian (2014) dictionaries. Before a presentation of his dictionary in Beth Sholem Aleichem in Tel...
Ukrainian poet Kateryna Babkina was on a trip to Israel promoting her work when the remarkable happened. An admirer of her poetry, translator Anton Paperny, had independently been translating her work from the Ukrainian into...
The home of the Hebrew-language writer S.Y. Agnon is located in the Talpiot neighborhood of Jerusalem and sits high enough on a hill that on a clear day, the Old City is visible in the...
The newly published volume “Jews and Ukrainians: A Millennium of Co-Existence”, authored by the historians Paul Robert Magocsi and Yohanan Petrovsky-Shtern is a prodigious coffee table book dedicated to exploring the common experiences shared by Ukrainians...
When reading Andriy Lyubka’s writing, one quickly understands that borders weave throughout his works. They are present in his latest best-selling collection of essays Saudade, which takes its name from the Portuguese and means, in...
The candles cast images of flickering light against the weathered walls of Lviv’s Italian Garden. Wolf Moskovich, professor emeritus of Jerusalem’s Hebrew University, who was sitting at this open-air gala next to me, suddenly said,...
Over the course of 2017, Paul Robert Magocsi, Chair of Ukrainian Studies at the University of Toronto, traveled the breadth of Ukraine to discuss Jews and Ukrainians: A Millennium of Co-Existence, the award-winning book he...
The book “Babyn Yar: History and Memory” appeared just before the 75th anniversary of the tragedy that took place in Babyn Yar during the German occupation of Kyiv. Babyn Yar has since become symbol for...
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.
