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...
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:...
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...
Originally appeared in Ukrainian @lb.ua Marta Konyk Iuliia Bentia is an art, music, and theater critic, archivist, and editor of the Krytyka journal. In 2024, she was a jury member of Encounter: The Ukrainian-Jewish Literary...
In 2024, Encounter: The Ukrainian-Jewish Literary Prize was awarded in the nonfiction category and went to Yuriy Skira for his book Solid. The Life-Saving Footwear Factory, recently published by the Lviv-based Choven publishing house. The...
Yohanan Petrovsky-Shtern is a man of many trades. He is a historian, a linguist, a translator, an essayist, and an artist, and the list goes on and on. Currently living in the United States, he...
Originally appeared in Ukrainian @Chytomo Amadoka is not Sofia Andrukhovych's newest book (she has recently published Catananche), but it is definitely her most voluminous one in terms of the number of pages and ideas. As...
The writer Vasyl Makhno has been living in the USA for nearly 25 years but has never lost touch with the Ukrainian cultural context. He writes and works in New York, but his books are...
Encounter: The Ukrainian-Jewish Literary Prize is now in its fourth year. The books submitted in the 2024 competition represent a wide variety of topics related to Ukrainian-Jewish relations in the non-fiction category. Zaven Babloyan, a...
Encounter: The Ukrainian-Jewish Literary Prize is designed to be based on the common centuries-old experience of Ukrainians and Jews, which has found expression in fiction and nonfiction literature. The prize is awarded annually for the...
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.
