Ukrainian folk songs and Hasidic music. Mutual borrowings between the Ukrainian and Yiddish languages. Striking similarities in the architecture of eighteenth-century wooden synagogues and Ukrainian wooden churches. A fascinating new book, The Ukrainian-Jewish Encounter: Cultural...
The participants of a recent presentation on Ukrainian-Jewish relations were direct and unambiguous when asked about their perceptions of Ukrainians: Ukrainians are antisemites. Most cooperated with the Nazis during World War II. They carried out...
Welcome to Ukrainian Jewish Heritage on Nash Holos Ukrainian Roots Radio. I’m Peter Bejger. It was always a very scenic area of forests and ravines. A very pleasant green zone on the edge of the...
The publication of a series of books supported by the Ukrainian Jewish Encounter have provoked vibrant debates and discussions in recent months as their authors and editors have appeared before engaged audiences at public venues...
“What do we do with this figure?” asks Amelia Glaser, professor of literature at the University of California, San Diego and editor of the UJE sponsored book, Stories of Khmelnytsky: Competing Literary Legacies of the 1648...
The Ukrainian Jewish Encounter undertook a global tour to promote books sponsored by the organization. Reports on events related to that tour will appear on UJE’s website. The following is a synopsis and full...
Although they have lived side by side for over a millennium on the territory of modern day Ukraine, there is much Ukrainians and Jews do not know about each other. That has frequently led to...
Ukrainian Jewish Encounter, with the support of the Government of Canada, sponsored the publication of Jews and Ukrainians: A Millennium of Co-Existence. There is much that ordinary Ukrainians do not know about Jews and that...
Welcome to Ukrainian Jewish Heritage on Nash Holos Ukrainian Roots Radio. I’m Peter Bejger. Today we look at symbols and mythologies. When competing narratives on history clash, the battle over symbols becomes heated and emotional....
The Ukrainian-language edition of Jews and Ukrainians: A Millennium of Co-Existence by Paul Robert Magocsi and Yohanan Petrovsky-Shtern was awarded special recognition as one of the best books at the Lviv Book Forum 2016 by...
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.
