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...
What is a book? As the train from Lviv races back to Kyiv after a trip that has taken our organization to Uzhhorod, Bershad, Kamianets-Podilskyi, Chernivtsi, Paris, and then Lviv, the question consumes me. I...
Baby Yar: History and Memory was named one of the best books of the Lviv Book Forum at a ceremony that took place at the city’s famed opera house on 14 September 2017. “We are very...
The 2017 Jerusalem International Book Fair featured not only the presentation of new books published with the support of the Ukrainian Jewish Encounter, but also a panel discussion on a wide range of issues in...
Dr. Yohanan Petrovsky-Shtern, co-author of “Jews and Ukrainians: A Millennium of Co-Existence” has over the last several months lectured in Europe and taught in Ukraine about Ukrainian-Jewish relations. The following are questions provided to the...
In 1966, the Israeli writer Shmuel Yosef Agnon was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature for his book A Guest for the Night. Set in the eastern Galician town of Buchach after the First World...
Babyn Yar today is a tree-lined park on the outskirts of Kyiv that offers the city’s residents refuge from the scorching summer heat. Seventy-five years ago, this peaceful setting of parkland was the site of...
The author and poet Kateryna Babkina represented Ukraine at the Jerusalem International Book Fair 2017. Babkina presented her book of poetry Dlia vsikh odnakove poprosy [Ask the Same for Everybody], translated by Anton Paperny into...
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.
