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...
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...
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...
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...
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," which started its tour last summer, is ongoing. The city of Zhmerynka in Vinnytsia Oblast is the fifth stop on a tour selected...
History sometimes imposes itself on life so fatally that even the most correct and worthy choices are disastrous, but it is impossible to know this in advance. "It's good to be alone; it's delicious to...
On 21 January 2025, Paul Robert Magocsi, Chair of Ukrainian Studies at the University of Toronto and a Board Member of Ukrainian Jewish Encounter (UJE), spoke on the topic "Academic and school history of Ukraine:...
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.
