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...
With the recent upsurge in reading in Ukraine, the popularity of various book festivals and forums has skyrocketed. These events have become an integral part of the country's cultural life, as they address the current...
For many years, Ukrainian Jewish Encounter has participated in one of the largest book events in Ukraine — the Publishers Forum in Lviv, which aims to develop the Ukrainian book market and integrate it into...
Interest in reading is surging in Ukraine, and as a result, the popularity of various book festivals and forums is on the rise. They have become an important cultural phenomenon that meets modern societal needs...
A conversation about Ukrainian translations of Hebrew- and Yiddish-language authors took place on 5 October 2025 at the 32nd Lviv BookForum with the participation of essayist and art critic Diana Klochko, Yiddish translator Tetiana Nepypenko,...
Every year, new books in the field of Jewish studies are published in Ukraine. In the video below, three of Ukraine's publishers who are leaders in the field of Jewish studies —Dukh i Litera (Kyiv),...
UJE Board Member Paul Robert Magocsi appeared at the Gothenburg Book Fair on 25 September in conversation with Swedish journalist Sharon Jåma to discuss Ukrainian-Jewish relations and the book Jews and Ukrainians: A Millennium of...
On 5 October 2025 at the Lviv BookForum, a discussion between Vitaly Portnikov, the renowned Ukrainian journalist and analyst, and Maria Hurska, the creator and head of the Ukrainian TV channel "Slawa" in Warsaw, took...
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...
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.
