Originally appeared @Krytyka By Kostiantyn Moskalets It was a gloomy November 2021. There were more than enough signs of the trouble that was coming. Let’s just say that I surprised myself by setting aside all...
The idea for the thematic issue No. 34 of the magazine Ukraina Moderna arose before the start of Russia's large-scale war against Ukraine, but the issue itself was released after the war’s first year. Most...
Babyn Yar, a ravine in the Ukrainian capital Kyiv, was the site of massacres carried out by Nazi Germany's forces during its campaign against the Soviet Union in World War II. On 29–30 September 1941...
Originally appeared @Krytyka By Bohdana Matiyash We’re talking about the war, we are telling ourselves and then the world about the crimes the Russians have perpetrated in our land with that faith that someday this...
UJE (Ukraine) regularly participates in book, cultural, historical, and ethnographic festivals held in Ukraine. For the second year in a row, UJE attended the "Portal Through the Centuries: Old Bohuslav," festival organized by the Bohuslav...
By Stanislav Aseyev Originally appeared @Krytyka Today, the situation is different: for the second year, Ukraine's collective consciousness is exhuming mass graves and burying children killed by Russian missiles, whereas just beyond Ukraine's borders the...
By chance, the books shortlisted for the 2023 'Encounter: The Ukrainian-Jewish Literary Prize' ™ were related to World War II. What does this indicate about how Ukrainians see their past and relationship with the Jewish...
"Encounter: The Ukrainian-Jewish Literary Prize" ™ is designed to be based on the common centuries-old experience of Ukrainians and Jews, which has found expression in fiction and non-fiction literature. The prize, sponsored by the Ukrainian...
Wilhelm Reich (1897–1957) was a controversial psychoanalyst born into an assimilated Jewish family in Dobrianychi in Galicia in the Austro-Hungarian Empire, now western Ukraine, and grew up in Bukovina on a large farm operated by...
"It's difficult to find any logic in Russia. We are dealing with labeling. They simply select the concepts that evoke the most negative reaction among the Russian public and use them: Nazis, neo-Nazis, Banderites, fascists,...
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.
