Baby Yar: History and Memory was named one of the best books of the Lviv Book Forum at a ceremony that took place at the city’s famed opera house on 14 September 2017. “We are very...
The 2017 Jerusalem International Book Fair featured not only the presentation of new books published with the support of the Ukrainian Jewish Encounter, but also a panel discussion on a wide range of issues in...
Babyn Yar today is a tree-lined park on the outskirts of Kyiv that offers the city’s residents refuge from the scorching summer heat. Seventy-five years ago, this peaceful setting of parkland was the site of...
The author and poet Kateryna Babkina represented Ukraine at the Jerusalem International Book Fair 2017. Babkina presented her book of poetry Dlia vsikh odnakove poprosy [Ask the Same for Everybody], translated by Anton Paperny into...
The participants of a recent presentation on Ukrainian-Jewish relations were direct and unambiguous when asked about their perceptions of Ukrainians: Ukrainians are antisemites. Most cooperated with the Nazis during World War II. They carried out...
The story of a Poland-born Jewish journalist navigating Soviet Ukraine to bring to the international community the story of a man-famine of 1932-1933 on that territory. A discussion of stereotypes and misperceptions between Ukrainians and...
The central aim of the Meridian Czernowitz International Poetry Festival 2016 in Chernivtsi was to honor the memory of the Jews murdered at Babyn Yar seventy-five years ago. Literature is one of the most effective...
The Ukrainian-language edition of Jews and Ukrainians: A Millennium of Co-Existence by Paul Robert Magocsi and Yohanan Petrovsky-Shtern was awarded special recognition as one of the best books at the Lviv Book Forum 2016 by...
The Ukrainian Jewish Encounter has been very active with several cultural initiatives in Ukraine and Canada this past autumn. The season started in early September with UJE at the 6th Annual International Poetry Festival Meridian...
Welcome to Ukrainian Jewish Heritage on Nash Holos Ukrainian Roots Radio. I’m Andriy Holowaty in Toronto. From November 6-9, 2014, Limmud FSU hosted more than 600 Jews from around Ukraine and the former Soviet Union,...
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.
