We continue our series of publications dedicated to the Ukrainian Righteous Among the Nations. We will now look at those saviors of Jews who come from cities affected by the ongoing Russian invasion. Mariupol Mariupol,...
What was life like for Jews in Kyiv after the Second World War? How did the city lose its Jewish color, and can it be restored? In today's episode of Encounters, a program devoted to...
After a three-year break because of the COVID pandemic, the Bloor West Village Toronto Ukrainian Festival returned in full force this year. The festival’s three days, 16-18 September 2022, were filled with Ukrainian foods, arts,...
Ukrainian Jewish Encounter (UJE) is a long-standing sponsor of the Meridian Czernowitz International Poetry Festival, which took place this year on 2–4 September 2022. Despite Russia’s ongoing criminal war against Ukraine, this year’s festival was...
A conversation about how the state policy on the Jews was formulated in the Russian Empire In the final days of 1791, the Russian empress Catherine II established the Pale of Settlement for the Jewish...
The 18th quadrennial World Congress of Jewish Studies in Jerusalem, 8-12 August 2022, included over 1700 presentations and participants from over 40 countries. Ukrainian representation was seriously limited by Russia's war on Ukraine, which prevented...
Toronto's Ashkenaz Festival is one of the world's largest and most prestigious showcases of Jewish music and culture. UJE co-presented two main events at this year's Festival, which took place 2-5 September. The first was...
How do we remember the genocide of Jews, and how should we record the genocide of Ukrainians in this Russo-Ukrainian war? Our guest today is Vladyslava Moskalets, senior lecturer in the Faculty of History at...
In the past, Israeli politicians sought photo ops at the Wailing Wall. Today, the wisest visionary leaders are starting to have their photos taken near the "wall of tears" in Bucha and Irpin. The photo...
On 24 February 2022, Russia launched a full-scale invasion of Ukraine. This second stage of a war that began in 2014 came in the wake of earlier pronouncements by Russia's president Vladimir Putin, denying the...
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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 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.
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.
