Winter is upon us; it’s the perfect time to grab a book or eReader, curl into a warm corner and lose yourself into a story. This holiday season, the Ukrainian Jewish Encounter and the Agnon...
The growing list of books published with the support of the Ukrainian Jewish Encounter were displayed at this year’s convention of The Association for Slavic, East European, & Eurasian Studies (ASEEES), held in Boston from...
UJE board member and University of Toronto professor Paul Robert Magocsi traveled throughout the U.S., Europe and Ukraine in 2018 to present the award-winning book Jews and Ukrainians: A Millennium of Co-Existence, a work he...
Yohanan Petrovsky-Shtern, who is a member of Ukrainian Jewish Encounter’s Academic Council, recently discussed two books he authored. Below are a transcript of his interview with Hromadske Radio about his book “Jews and Ukrainians: A...
The Key in the Pocket is a multi-edition collection of stories by three prominent Ukrainian writers—Sofia Andrukhovych, Andriy Lyubka, and Yevheniya Senik—who spent a week at a literary residence in Buchach, Ukraine, the birthplace of...
Sofia Andrukhovych, a rising star of Ukrainian prose, participated in a unique project in the two house-museums where the future Nobel Prize in Literature recipient Shmuel Yosef Agnon lived. Buchach, in Galicia, and then Jerusalem...
In an evening of engaging conversation and music, Canadian professor Paul Robert Magocsi and renowned Swedish journalist Peter Johnsson appeared in Stockholm recently to discuss trends in Jewish-Ukrainian relations, past and present. The event marked...
Prof. Paul Robert Magocsi, chair of Ukrainian Studies at the University of Toronto, kicked off the 2018 tour of Jews and Ukrainians: A Millennium of Co-Existence with an enthusiastic presentation at London’s Ukrainian Institute on...
Three years ago, Paul Robert Magocsi, Chair of Ukrainian Studies at the University of Toronto, started collaborating with Yohanan Petrovsky-Shtern, professor of Jewish studies and Jewish history at Northwestern University, on a book about Ukrainian-Jewish...
Several of the publications the Ukrainian Jewish Encounter has supported in recent years were on display at the Paris Book Fair, which took place in the French capital from 16-19 March 2018. The fair is...
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.
