After a three-year break because of the COVID pandemic, the Bloor West Village Toronto Ukrainian Festival returned in full force this year. The festival’s three days, 16-18 September 2022, were filled with Ukrainian foods, arts,...
Ukrainian Jewish Encounter (UJE) is a long-standing sponsor of the Meridian Czernowitz International Poetry Festival, which took place this year on 2–4 September 2022. Despite Russia’s ongoing criminal war against Ukraine, this year’s festival was...
The 18th quadrennial World Congress of Jewish Studies in Jerusalem, 8-12 August 2022, included over 1700 presentations and participants from over 40 countries. Ukrainian representation was seriously limited by Russia's war on Ukraine, which prevented...
Toronto's Ashkenaz Festival is one of the world's largest and most prestigious showcases of Jewish music and culture. UJE co-presented two main events at this year's Festival, which took place 2-5 September. The first was...
The 18th quadrennial World Congress of Jewish Studies in Jerusalem, 8-12 August 2022, included over 1700 presentations and participants from over 40 countries. Ukrainian representation was seriously limited by Russia's war on Ukraine, which prevented...
Paul Robert Magocsi, Professor at the University of Toronto and a board member of the Ukrainian Jewish Encounter (UJE), returned to Ukraine after a short break with a public lecture entitled "Why a multinational approach...
Revival of the Nation. Lessons from Israel for Ukraine, Lviv, 28 BookForum, 19 September 2021 (in Ukrainian) The book series "Jewish Library" is a collection of the best works about the contribution of the Jewish...
A discussion about multilingual Jewish prose on the occasion of the publication of the Ukrainian-language anthologies American Jewish Prose and The Mahogany Box. Jewish Prose of Eastern Europe published by Dukh i Litera. Participants: Leonid...
Discussion about the Kultur-Lige (in English), 28 BookForum, Lviv, 16 September 2021. Participants: Prof. Myroslav Shkandrij, Prof. Harriet Murav, Prof. Gennadiy Estriakh, Moderator: Natalia A. Feduschak As defined by the YIVO Encyclopedia of Jews in...
A star of BookForum 2021, Nobel Prize Laureate Olga Tokarczuk, in conversation with Ostap Slyvynsky, said that for her, the person who sets the standard for defining the literature of Central and Eastern Europe could...
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.
