The Canadian-based charitable organization Ukrainian Jewish Encounter successfully presented its much-anticipated program commemorating the 75th anniversary of Babyn Yar, which was held in Kyiv from September 23-29. The program featured four distinct projects: a student...
A memorial concert dedicated to the 75th anniversary of Babyn Yar was held at the Kyiv Opera House on September 29. Engaging artists from all over the world, the Hamburg Symphony Orchestra performed Max Bruch’s...
Speech of James C. Temerty, Chairman of the Board of the Ukrainian Jewish Encounter upon presenting the Metropolitan Andrei Sheptytsky Award for 2016 to Ivan Dziuba Fifty years ago, a small group of men and...
Ivan Dziuba, writer and former dissident received the Metropolitan Andrei Sheptytsky Medal for 2016. The award, conferred by the Jewish Confederation of Ukraine and the Ukrainian Jewish Encounter, was presented at a dinner on September...
Josef Zissels, Chairman of the Association of Jewish Communities and Organizations of Ukraine, discusses the significance of the forthcoming 75th anniversary commemoration of the Babyn Yar Tragedy in Kyiv on 23-29 September 2016. He emphasized the...
The central aim of the Meridian Czernowitz International Poetry Festival 2016 in Chernivtsi was to honor the memory of the Jews murdered at Babyn Yar seventy-five years ago. Literature is one of the most effective...
The program includes: the “Kaddish-Requiem” by Yevhen Stankovych, based on the poems of Dmytro Pavlychko; “A German Requiem” by Brahms; and “Kol Nidrei” by Max Bruch. The opera singer and concert producer Pavlo Hunka is...
The Ukrainian-language edition of Jews and Ukrainians: A Millennium of Co-Existence by Paul Robert Magocsi and Yohanan Petrovsky-Shtern was awarded special recognition as one of the best books at the Lviv Book Forum 2016 by...
September 29, 2016 will mark the 75th anniversary of the murder of 34,000 Jews that occurred at Babyn Yar, a ravine on the outskirts of Kyiv, the capital of Ukraine. Like Auschwitz in Poland, Babyn Yar...
Welcome to Ukrainian Jewish Heritage on Nash Holos Ukrainian Roots Radio. I’m Peter Bejger. Memory. Commemoration. Responsibility. The seventy-fifth anniversary of the Babyn Yar tragedy in Kyiv will be soon upon us. This anniversary is...
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.
