A conversation about the celebration of the year (2025–2026) of Nobel laureate Shmuel Yosef Agnon in Ukraine took place on 12 September 2026 at the Lviv International BookForum Festival. The presentation focused on the translation...
A conversation about the trilogy of Austrian writer, journalist of the newspaper Frankfurter Zeitung, music critic Soma Morgenstern (1890–1976) Sparks in the Abyss (written in 1930–1945, published after the war). The Ukrainian-born writer left wonderful...
For the past several years, UJE has facilitated a presentation of new books in the field of Jewish studies at the Lviv International BookForum Festival. This year, on 12 September 2026, the publishing houses "Dukh...
The history of relations between Jews, Poles and Ukrainians contains tragic and good pages. It happened that the national hero of one nation was perceived as an enemy for another. It happens that history is...
"Portal Through the Centuries: Old Bohuslav," an annual history festival about the Bohuslav region of the 19th and early 20th centuries, was held in the Kyiv region on 13 June. It was launched in 2022,...
On 16–17 May, the 14th VinBookFest was held in Vinnytsia as part of the European Weekend, bringing together writers, publishers, artists, and book lovers from across Ukraine. This year, the participants included some 80 writers,...
UJE participated in the 14th International Book Arsenal Festival, held on 28–31 May 2026 at the Old Arsenal of the Pechersk Fortress on Lavrska Street in Kyiv. Book Arsenal is a grand international intellectual event...
On 30 May 2026, the public discussion "Ukrainian-Jewish Cultural Interactions During the Great War," supported by UJE, was held as part of the Book Arsenal festival in Kyiv. The discussion was moderated by Vitaly Chernoivanenko,...
One of the reasons for Ukraine's flourishing book culture is its society's strong desire to learn about and understand its own history. Book festivals have become special places of power, where each stand represents a...
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...
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.
