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    Ukraine-related presentations at the 18th World Congress of Jewish Studies in Jerusalem

    Posted On: September 6th, 2022
    Posted In: UJE Initiatives, Outreach

    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...

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    Awarding ceremony for the winners of the UJE children's drawing contest and exhibition opening in Kyiv

    Posted On: June 13th, 2022
    Posted In: UJE Initiatives, Outreach

    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...

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    The awarding of the 'Encounter' prize has been suspended until further notice

    Posted On: March 31st, 2022
    Posted In: 'Encounter' Literary Prize, UJE Initiatives
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    The "Encounter" prize in Krytyka magazine

    Posted On: February 10th, 2022
    Posted In: 'Encounter' Literary Prize, UJE Initiatives

    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....

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    Mykhailo Hrushevsky's Ukrainian "lost paradise": the Jewish dimension

    Posted On: January 31st, 2022
    Posted In: UJE Initiatives, Jews on Ukrainian Lands, History

    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...

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    Rules and application form: 'Encounter: The Ukrainian-Jewish Literary Prize' ™ 2022 Fiction Category

    Posted On: January 26th, 2022
    Posted In: 'Encounter' Literary Prize, UJE Initiatives

    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...

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    The "Encounter" prize to judge fiction submissions in 2022

    Posted On: December 23rd, 2021
    Posted In: 'Encounter' Literary Prize, UJE Initiatives

    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...

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    "Memory Wars" and the Ukrainian-Jewish dialogue in Israel

    Posted On: December 22nd, 2021
    Posted In: UJE Initiatives, Sponsored Projects, Israeli Friends of Ukraine, Other Programs, The Holocaust in Ukraine, History, Holodomor

    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...

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    Video: "Encounter: The Ukrainian-Jewish Literary Prize" and other recent developments in Ukrainian literature

    Posted On: November 17th, 2021
    Posted In: 'Encounter' Literary Prize, UJE Initiatives, Literature, Culture

    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...

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    Video: A conversation with Andrei Kurkov and Vasyl Makhno in NYC

    Posted On: November 16th, 2021
    Posted In: 'Encounter' Literary Prize, UJE Initiatives, Literature, Culture

    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.

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    Encounter: The Ukrainian-Jewish Literary Prize  

    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."

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