Jews in Old Rus': A Documentary History was launched in September 2026 by the Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute. Professor Alexander Kulik of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, who compiled this collection of documents on the...
The Ukrainian Jewish Encounter was founded in 2008 with the goal of building stronger relations between Ukrainians and Jews, two peoples who, for centuries, lived side by side on the territory of what is modern-day...
A conversation about the celebration of the year (2025–2026) of Nobel laureate Shmuel Yosef Agnon in Ukraine took place on 12 September 2026 at the Lviv International BookForum Festival. The presentation focused on the translation...
A conversation about the trilogy of Austrian writer, journalist of the newspaper Frankfurter Zeitung, music critic Soma Morgenstern (1890–1976) Sparks in the Abyss (written in 1930–1945, published after the war). The Ukrainian-born writer left wonderful...
The Ukrainian Jewish Encounter was founded in 2008 with the goal of building stronger relations between Ukrainians and Jews, two peoples who, for centuries, lived side by side on the territory of what is modern-day...
For the past several years, UJE has facilitated a presentation of new books in the field of Jewish studies at the Lviv International BookForum Festival. This year, on 12 September 2026, the publishing houses "Dukh...
The history of relations between Jews, Poles and Ukrainians contains tragic and good pages. It happened that the national hero of one nation was perceived as an enemy for another. It happens that history is...
The Ukrainian Jewish Encounter was founded in 2008 with the goal of building stronger relations between Ukrainians and Jews, two peoples who, for centuries, lived side by side on the territory of what is modern-day...
We invite you to view the award ceremony announcing the winner of the unique book award, Encounter: The Ukrainian-Jewish Literary Prize, held on 11 September 2026 at the Lviv International BookForum Festival. This year, the...
Ola Hnatiuk: "The past directly impacts the present. It can be explained in the simplest terms: we have run from the past for so long that the time has finally come to confront it and...
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.
