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...
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...
[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....
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:...
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...
[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....
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"...
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...
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...
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.
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.
