The Ukrainian Jewish Encounter sponsored best-selling Ukrainian writer, artist, and television host Irena Karpa and Dr. Dmytro Tyshchenko, the author of a new Yiddish-Ukrainian dictionary, at the 2015 Jerusalem International Book Fair. Karpa discussed her...
The young Ukrainian writer, singer, journalist, and television presenter Irena Karpa’s visit to Israel, which featured her participation in the Jerusalem Book Fair and speeches in Jerusalem and Tel Aviv, became an outstanding event of...
JERUSALEM – Best-selling Ukrainian writer Irena Karpa and Dmytro Tyshchenko, the author of a new Yiddish-Ukrainian dictionary, will appear at this year’s Jerusalem International Book Fair, raising the visibility of Ukraine in this important forum....
As in past years, the Ukrainian Jewish Encounter managed a well-attended information booth and sponsored a musical event with Ukrainian/Jewish content at the Ashkenaz Festival. This year the exuberant Lemon Bucket Orkestra was featured in...
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.
