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    Available in PDF: All-Ukrainian Children's Drawing Competition 2021/2022 Catalogue

    Posted On: October 2nd, 2023
    Posted In: UJE Initiatives, Outreach

    The "All-Ukrainian Children’s Drawing Competition" was initiated and organized by the Ukrainian non-governmental organization, Ukrainian Jewish Encounter (Ukraine office). The main goals and objectives of the Competition are to draw the attention of society, particularly...

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    Yehupets No. 31: Babyn Yar

    Posted On: September 28th, 2023
    Posted In: Dukh i Litera Digital Library, Sponsored Projects

    The 31st issue of the artistic and journalistic almanac "Yehupets" is dedicated to the 80th anniversary of the Babyny Yar tragedy. The issue opens with an expert questionnaire on the interpretation of this tragedy. Among...

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    Olena Stiazhkina: "We are speaking about modern times only with words with which we had described the past"

    Posted On: September 27th, 2023
    Posted In: 'Encounter' Literary Prize, UJE Initiatives, Literature, Culture

    [Editor’s note: LB.UA, one of Ukraine’s leading publications, ran a series of interviews with jury members for the 2023 "Encounter: The Ukrainian-Jewish Literary Prize" ™ before the prize winner was announced on 18 September 2023....

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    "These texts give me strength": Olena Styazhkina on the Encounter Literary Prize initiative

    Posted On: September 25th, 2023
    Posted In: 'Encounter' Literary Prize, UJE Initiatives, Literature, Culture

    We talked about “Encounter: The Ukrainian-Jewish Literary Prize": senses and meanings with Professor Olena Stiazhkina, a member of this year's jury. She holds a doctorate in History and is also a writer and journalist. “Encounter:...

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    Now in PDF format: "Jews and Ukrainians: A Millennium of Co-Existence"

    Posted On: September 21st, 2023
    Posted In: Publications, Sponsored Projects

    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...

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    Oksana Forostyna: "We are strong enough to talk frankly about the complicated moments of our history"

    Posted On: September 20th, 2023
    Posted In: 'Encounter' Literary Prize, UJE Initiatives

    [Editor’s note: LB.UA, one of Ukraine’s leading publications, ran a series of interviews with jury members for the 2023 "Encounter: The Ukrainian-Jewish Literary Prize" ™ before the prize winner was announced on 18 September 2023....

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    The winner of the 2023 'Encounter' prize is the novel Amadoka by Sofia Andrukhovych

    Posted On: September 18th, 2023
    Posted In: 'Encounter' Literary Prize, UJE Initiatives

    Ukrainian Jewish Encounter (UJE), a Canadian charitable non-profit organization, and Ukraine's NGO "Publishers Forum" (Lviv, Ukraine) are pleased to announce that Amadoka, written by Sofia Andrukhovych and published by Ukraine's "The Old Lion Publishing House"...

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    Now in PDF format: "The Ukrainian-Jewish Encounter: Cultural Dimensions"

    Posted On: September 14th, 2023
    Posted In: Publications, Literature, Sponsored Projects, Culture

    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...

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    Letters from the past

    Posted On: September 13th, 2023
    Posted In: Ukrainian statehood and identity, Diverse Voices

    By Samantha Shokin My mother’s family immigrated to Brooklyn from Kyiv in the late 1970s, about a decade before I was born. Growing up, I had identified, like everyone else in our immigrant community, as...

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    "If you want to have meaning in your life, you have to fight against fascism." What's wrong with the Russians' Holocaust rhetoric?

    Posted On: September 11th, 2023
    Posted In: Hromadske Radio, Sponsored Projects, Audio/Visual Media, The Holocaust in Ukraine, History

    How does Russia really perceive the Holocaust? What is behind the derogatory statements about Jews and the tragedy of the Holocaust made by high-ranking Russian officials? At issue here are the remarks made by Russia's...

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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.

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    Encounter: The Ukrainian-Jewish Literary Prize  

    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."

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