On 26 October, Kyiv hosted a roundtable discussion titled "Latest Studies on Ukrainian-Jewish Relations," organized by UJE with the support of the Ukrainian House and held as part of the Foundation Book Festival. The participants...
Editor’s note: On 5 October 2025, Vitaly Portnikov, the renowned Ukrainian journalist and analyst, and Maria Hurska, creator and head of the Ukrainian TV channel Slawa in Warsaw, participated in a widely acclaimed discussion at...
On 31 October 2025, the library of the Shevchenko National Reserve hosted the opening of the travelling exhibition "A Journey Through the Ukrainian-Jewish Encounter: From Antiquity to 1939" organized by UJE. The event continued the...
[Editor’s note: This interview with Khrystyna Semeryn was conducted earlier this year by Ukraine’s public radio, Hromadske Radio. The author was named winner of Encounter: The Ukrainian-Jewish Literary Prize in October 2025.] Jewish culture...
With the recent upsurge in reading in Ukraine, the popularity of various book festivals and forums has skyrocketed. These events have become an integral part of the country's cultural life, as they address the current...
For many years, Ukrainian Jewish Encounter has participated in one of the largest book events in Ukraine — the Publishers Forum in Lviv, which aims to develop the Ukrainian book market and integrate it into...
On 29 September 2025, Kaniv's Culture and Arts Center (Cherkasy Oblast) hosted the opening of the traveling exhibition "A Journey Through the Ukrainian-Jewish Encounter: From Antiquity to 1939," organized by UJE. It was another stop...
Interest in reading is surging in Ukraine, and as a result, the popularity of various book festivals and forums is on the rise. They have become an important cultural phenomenon that meets modern societal needs...
From 21 August through 15 September 2025, the Center for Culture, Leisure, and Sports of the Chyhyryn Town Council hosted the exhibition "A Journey Through the Ukrainian-Jewish Encounter: From Antiquity to 1939," organized with the...
A conversation about Ukrainian translations of Hebrew- and Yiddish-language authors took place on 5 October 2025 at the 32nd Lviv BookForum with the participation of essayist and art critic Diana Klochko, Yiddish translator Tetiana Nepypenko,...
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.
