The Jury members congratulate the candidates for addressing such a complex site and quest. Although there were highly suggestive entries, the Jury did not feel that any one entry answered the issues raised in the...
The Ukrainian Jewish Encounter has dedicated efforts to advance the global recognition of the legacy of the legendary Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church leader Metropolitan Andrei Sheptytsky. Sheptytsky is a model worthy of celebration and emulation,...
In the Shevchenkivskyi district in the northern part of Kyiv, lies a scenic little green space known as Babyn Yar (Grandmother’s Ravine). For most of its recorded history it was owned by a monastery and...
The historian and Executive Secretary of the Public Committee for the Commemoration of the Victims of Babyn Yar speaks about the competition for creating a memorial park space in Babyn Yar. Vitaliy Nakhmanovych is a...
September 2016 will mark the 75th anniversary of the human tragedy that occurred at Babyn Yar, a ravine on the outskirts of Kyiv, the capital of Ukraine. Like Auschwitz in Poland, Babyn Yar in Ukraine...
Robert Paul Magocsi, curator of the events to mark the anniversary, speaks about the program planned by the Ukrainian Jewish Encounter. Iryna Slavinska: The seventy-fifth anniversary is a very serious challenge for Ukraine and for...
An architectural ideas competition has launched for a necropolis in Babyn Yar in Ukraine, the site of a series of massacres carried out by Nazi forces during World War Two.
Babyn Yar is a complex historical symbol. For centuries Babyn Yar was a multi-ethnic and multi-faith necropolis linked to the history of Kyiv. It became part of world history in the fall of 1941, when...
The Concept While the Ukrainian Jewish Encounter (UJE) is not primarily a scholarly endeavour, importance is attached to the development of a “shared historical narrative” that is based on authoritative scholarship. This shared narrative is...
The Ukrainian Jewish Encounter has been very active with several cultural initiatives in Ukraine and Canada this past autumn. The season started in early September with UJE at the 6th Annual International Poetry Festival Meridian...
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.
