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...
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...
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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 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.
As Ukraine defends its very existence against Russia, the Ukrainian Jewish Encounter Timeline serves to counter the malicious and false narratives about Ukraine and its history. The Timeline demonstrates that Ukraine is home to diverse peoples and, for centuries, one of the world’s oldest and largest Jewish communities.
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.
