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Bernard-Henri Lévy and Lina Kostenko receive the Sheptytsky Award at a ceremony in Washington, DC

Posted On: May 5th, 2025

Posted In: UJE Initiatives, History, Sheptytsky Award, Metropolitan Andrei Sheptytsky

Bernard-Henri Lévy, the French writer and public intellectual, and Lina Kostenko, the renowned Ukrainian poet and former Soviet dissident, were honored with the Andrey Sheptytsky Award at a ceremony held on 30 April 2025 in...

Capitol Hill event honors fight for Ukrainian freedom

Posted On: May 1st, 2025

Posted In: UJE Initiatives, Sheptytsky Award

The sealing of a critical minerals deal and a Capitol Hill event honoring dissidents show that hope remains for Ukraine's cause. Bernard-Henri Levy was impassioned. "Ukraine is not losing," he declared. "It is winning!" Together...

Zuzanna Ginczanka's centaurs, galloping at the intersection of three cultures

Posted On: April 24th, 2025

Posted In: UJE Initiatives, Encounter: The Ukrainian-Jewish Literary Prize, Literature, Culture

Zuzanna Ginczanka published only one collection of poems in her lifetime (On Centaurs, 1936), but her work became a sensation in Polish literary circles. A Jew by origin, she was born in Kyiv, lived in...

Diplomat Olexander Scherba: "Being honest about our history is part of our transformation to a better nation on the path to United Europe"

Posted On: April 3rd, 2025

Posted In: UJE Initiatives, Encounter: The Ukrainian-Jewish Literary Prize

Originally appeared in Ukrainian @lb.ua Marta Konyk Olexander Scherba is a diplomat, author, and ambassador-at-large at Ukraine's Ministry of Foreign Affairs. In 2024, he chaired the jury of Encounter: The Ukrainian-Jewish Literary Prize, which addresses...

Sharhorod hosts the exhibition "A Journey Through the Ukrainian-Jewish Encounter: From Antiquity to 1939"

Posted On: April 1st, 2025

Posted In: UJE Initiatives, A Journey through the Ukrainian-Jewish Encounter, Exhibits, Outreach

In the summer of 2024, the exhibition "A Journey Through the Ukrainian-Jewish Encounter: From Antiquity to 1939" started touring Vinnytsia Oblast. Since July, it has been shown in Vinnytsia, Lityn, Diakivtsi, Khmilnyk, and Zhmerynka. After...

Ivan Dziuba (1931–2022)

Posted On: March 20th, 2025

Posted In: Did You Know?, UJE Initiatives, Literature, Culture, Sheptytsky Award

Ivan Dziuba was a dissident, literary critic, Minister of Culture of Ukraine, and co-founder of the People's Movement of Ukraine, the first opposition party in Soviet Ukraine. He played a key role in restoring Ukraine's...

Paul Celan: Avant-garde poet after Auschwitz

Posted On: March 6th, 2025

Posted In: UJE Initiatives, Encounter: The Ukrainian-Jewish Literary Prize, Literature, Culture

As a poet who was born in Ukraine and survived the Holocaust there, Paul Celan was able to speak clearly on the issue of poetry in times of catastrophe. His response is still relevant today...

Awards ceremony of the 2024 All-Ukrainian Student Drawing Competition 2024" in Kyiv

Posted On: March 4th, 2025

Posted In: UJE Initiatives, All-Ukrainian student's drawing competition

On 8 February 2025, the Sholem Aleichem Museum in downtown Kyiv hosted the awards ceremony of the All-Ukrainian Student Drawing Competition "Ukrainian Jewish Encounter: Our Stories Are Incomplete Without Each Other, 2024" and the opening...

Historian Alexander J. Motyl: "There are enough scholarly works about Ukraine. Now we need to popularize certain topics"

Posted On: February 20th, 2025

Posted In: UJE Initiatives, Encounter: The Ukrainian-Jewish Literary Prize, Literature, Culture

Marta Konyk Originally appeared in Ukrainian @LB.ua Alexander J. Motyl is a professor of political science and history at Columbia University and a writer and artist. In 2024, he was a jury member for Encounter:...

The exhibition "A Journey Through the Ukrainian-Jewish Encounter: From Antiquity to 1939" continues in Vinnytsia Oblast

Posted On: February 18th, 2025

Posted In: A Journey through the Ukrainian-Jewish Encounter, UJE Initiatives, Exhibits, Outreach

The exhibition "A Journey Through the Ukrainian-Jewish Encounter: From Antiquity to 1939," which started its tour last summer, is ongoing. The city of Zhmerynka in Vinnytsia Oblast is the fifth stop on a tour selected...

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Ukrainian Jewish Encounter Timeline wins international recognition while countering Russian propaganda

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.

Encounter: The Ukrainian-Jewish Literary Prize

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."

FROM ANTIQUITY TO 1914

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.

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Bernard-Henri Lévy and Lina Kostenko receive the Sheptytsky Award at a ceremony in Washington, DC

Capitol Hill event honors fight for Ukrainian freedom

Zuzanna Ginczanka's centaurs, galloping at the intersection of three cultures

Diplomat Olexander Scherba: "Being honest about our history is part of our transformation to a better nation on the path to United Europe"

Sharhorod hosts the exhibition "A Journey Through the Ukrainian-Jewish Encounter: From Antiquity to 1939"

Ivan Dziuba (1931–2022)

Paul Celan: Avant-garde poet after Auschwitz

Awards ceremony of the 2024 All-Ukrainian Student Drawing Competition 2024" in Kyiv

Historian Alexander J. Motyl: "There are enough scholarly works about Ukraine. Now we need to popularize certain topics"

The exhibition "A Journey Through the Ukrainian-Jewish Encounter: From Antiquity to 1939" continues in Vinnytsia Oblast

Ukrainian Jewish Encounter Timeline wins international recognition while countering Russian propaganda

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Communicator Awards:

Encounter: The Ukrainian-Jewish Literary Prize

Download the complete 168-page book

A Journey Through the Ukrainian-Jewish Encounter

FROM ANTIQUITY TO 1914

All-Ukrainian Student's
Drawing Competition
2021/2022

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Ukrainian Jewish Encounter Timeline wins international recognition while countering Russian propaganda

Web Excellence Awards:

w3 Awards:

Anthem Awards:

Communicator Awards:

Encounter: The Ukrainian-Jewish Literary Prize

Download the complete 168-page book

A Journey Through the Ukrainian-Jewish Encounter

FROM ANTIQUITY TO 1914

All-Ukrainian Student's Drawing Competition 2021/2022

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All-Ukrainian Student's
Drawing Competition
2021/2022