Stanisław Lem once slipped away, having built his own world where he was the hospitable and slightly ironic host rather than someone who had to adapt to the world of others, expecting and kowtowing. Lem...
The Ukrainian-Jewish Encounter (UJE) again participated in this year's XIII International Festival Book Arsenal, which took place from May 29 to June 1, 2025, in the premises of the Old Arsenal of the Pechersk Fortress...
Bruno Schulz is a writer and artist of Jewish origin, born in Drohobych. While his most famous works were written in Polish, he left his cultural mark in the memory of multiple peoples represented in...
Ukrainians and Jews have lived side-by-side on the territory of modern-day Ukraine for nearly two millennia. Separately and together, they weaved a tapestry that has left an indelible mark on Ukraine's cultural, linguistic, and historical...
This year, the Book Land festival took place from 24 to 27 April at the National Complex "Expocenter of Ukraine," Ukraine's largest exhibition center, located in Kyiv. For the third consecutive year, the Ukrainian Jewish...
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...
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 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...
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...
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...
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.
