Numerous books and monographs have appeared in recent years describing the rich lives of the Jewish communities that inhabited the territory of contemporary Ukraine prior to World War II. Now Ukrainian historian Maxim Hon has…
Ukrainian Jewish Encounter proudly supports two on-going media projects – Hromadske Radio’s Zustrichi program in Ukraine and Ukrainian Jewish Heritage that airs on Canada’s Nash Holos Ukrainian Roots Radio. In an effort to broaden the…
The documentary film Hunger for Truth tells the story of Canadian-Jewish journalist Rhea Clyman. Although little known today, Clyman reached international acclaim in her day for her coverage of the Soviet Union, including the 1932-33…
The award-winning book A Journey Through the Ukrainian-Jewish Encounter: From Antiquity to 1914 received high praise from scholars and the public at two recent presentations in Lviv, Ukraine. Ukrainian historians Igor Shchupak, at the Limmud…
The Key in the Pocket is a multi-edition collection of stories by three prominent Ukrainian writers—Sofia Andrukhovych, Andriy Lyubka, and Yevheniya Senik—who spent a week at a literary residence in Buchach, Ukraine, the birthplace of…
Sofia Andrukhovych, a rising star of Ukrainian prose, participated in a unique project in the two house-museums where the future Nobel Prize in Literature recipient Shmuel Yosef Agnon lived. Buchach, in Galicia, and then Jerusalem…
The 22nd Annual Toronto Ukrainian Festival, the largest Ukrainian festival in North America, this year welcomed the Right Honourable Justin Trudeau, Prime Minster of Canada, who along with other senior government officials, met with UJE…
Several of the publications the Ukrainian Jewish Encounter has supported in recent years were on display at the Paris Book Fair, which took place in the French capital from 16-19 March 2018. The fair is…
The motto of the Ukrainian Jewish Encounter proclaims, “Our stories are incomplete without each other.” At conferences, festivals, book presentations, and other events in which UJE took part, 2017 proved repeatedly that there is more…
In 2006, Soviet Jewish activist Chaim Chessler visited Britain for a conference held by Limmud, an organization dedicated to Jewish learning. He immediately understood that this volunteer-driven group could be molded to meet the needs…
