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,...
On June 20, 2015, the first Ukrainian Festival in Mississauga, Ontario was held, organized by a small committee from the Toronto Bloor West Village Ukrainian Festival. Over 10,000 people visited the fair on this beautiful...
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...
The four-day “Ukraine Limmud” conference opened in Lviv on November 6th. Israeli ambassador Eliab Byelotserkovski presented the following remarks during this event: “I am very proud that I represent the country of Israel in Ukraine...
LVIV, Ukraine — At the Lviv, Ukraine, Limmud FSU conference last weekend, despite the city’s remote distance from the Russian border, the turmoil of violence in the east and the political instability were palpable.
Once home to a thriving Jewish community, this border city experienced a renaissance of Jewish life over the weekend during Limmud Ukraine’s annual conference.
Jews from the former Soviet Union are different from the “mainstream” Jewish community in Canada. That was the sentiment expressed repeatedly this past weekend, including from those who weren’t themselves born in the FSU but...
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.
