Once home to a thriving Jewish community, this border city experienced a renaissance of Jewish life over the weekend during Limmud Ukraine’s annual conference.
Jews from the former Soviet Union are different from the “mainstream” Jewish community in Canada. That was the sentiment expressed repeatedly this past weekend, including from those who weren’t themselves born in the FSU but...
The Ukrainian Jewish Encounter sponsored a lively panel discussion entitled "Taras Shevchenko: Ukrainian Nationalism, Poetry and the Jews" at the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research in New York on September 30, 2014. Chaired by Gennady...
Presentations by Timothy Snyder: Оpening remarks. Professor Snyder’s lecture, “Not Even Past: Ukrainian Histories, Russian Politics, European Futures.” Closing remarks. Other Presentations: Public lecture by Slavenka Drakulić Public lecture by Paul Berman Public Lecture by Bernard-Henri...
UCU Press Service, June 25, 2013 http://ucu.edu.ua/eng/news/1459/ Distinguished Canadian entrepreneur and civic leader, benefactor of the UkrainianCatholicUniversity, founder and chairman of the Ukrainian Jewish Encounter Initiative (UJE), James Temerty has become the first recipient of...
In 2009 UJE initiated a series of roundtable discussions, engaging leading scholars/experts from around the world to address key issues relating to the shared history of Ukrainians and Jews. The first roundtable was held in...
By Mykola Siruk, Den Newspaper, Kyiv, Ukraine June 26, 2013 Issue No. 109 (2013) http://www.day.kiev.ua/uk/article/den-planeti/svit-viznav-ideyi-mitropolita Babi Yar was one of those tragic pages in the history of the Ukrainian and Jewish people. The Soviet government...
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.
