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...
On 25 January 2022, the Sholem Aleichem Museum in Kyiv hosted the grand opening of the exhibition of works by participants of the All-Ukrainian Children's Drawing Contest "Ukrainian-Jewish Encounter: Our Stories Are Incomplete Without Each...
The Ukrainian-language translation of The Anti-Imperial Choice: The Making of the Ukrainian Jew by Yohanan Petrovsky-Shtern, published by Krytyka Press in 2018, was the second winner of "Encounter: The Ukrainian-Jewish Literary Prize" ™ in 2021....
Professor Mykhailo Hrushevsky (1866–1934), the head of the Ukrainian Central Rada [revolutionary parliament founded in 1917 that directed the Ukrainian national movement — Ed.] and one of the most distinguished Ukrainian figures of the twentieth...
Ukrainians and Jews have lived side-by-side on the territory of modern-day Ukraine for nearly two millennia. Separately and together, they weaved a tapestry that has left an indelible mark on Ukraine's cultural, linguistic and historical...
The Ukrainian Jewish Encounter and the NGO "Publishers Forum" (Lviv, Ukraine) are pleased to announce that fiction submissions will be judged in the 2022 "Encounter: The Ukrainian-Jewish Literary Prize" ™. Guidelines will be announced in...
The international seminar "Above and around the Ravine: Memory Wars in Ukrainian-Jewish History, the Traumas of the Holocaust and the Holodomor" took place on 11–13 November 2021 in the city of Netanya, Israel. The nongovernmental...
The Ukrainian Studies Program at Columbia University’s Harriman Institute and the Ukrainian Jewish Encounter (UJE) hosted an online conversation with renowned Ukrainian writers Vasyl Makhno and Andrei Kurkov on 14 October 2021. The discussion focused...
A conversation with Andrei Kurkov and Vasyl Makhno, New York City, 16 October 2021 (In Ukrainian) Acclaimed Ukrainian writers Andrei Kurkov and Vasyl Makhno appeared together in New York on 16 October 2021 to discuss...
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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 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.
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.
