At the Kharkiv Choral Synagogue, 35 kilometers from the border with aggressive barbarians: today another newborn Jew entered into a union with the Almighty. On the eve of the mourning day of fasting on the...
A conversation with Leonid Finberg, director of the Center for the Studies of History and Culture of East European Jewry, editor-in-chief of the Dukh i Litera Publishing House, and member of PEN Ukraine. Yelyzaveta Tsarehradska:...
Charlotte Higgins The Harvard academic on writing while grieving — and where his country goes from here Before my first reporting trip to Ukraine, one of my seasoned war correspondent colleagues had two pieces...
Ukrainian writer Vasyl Makhno will appear in several venues in Israel between 23 June-2 July 2023 to discuss the intersection of Ukrainian and Jewish literature and culture in Ukraine and abroad. Information about the events...
The book contains articles and essays about the work of the outstanding German-speaking poet of the 20th century, a native of Chernivtsi, Paul Celan. The book traces his Bukovynian roots, explores little-known pages of his...
The Ukrainian office of the Ukrainian Jewish Encounter (UJE), a Canadian charitable non-profit organization, has many years of experience working with museums throughout Ukraine. Museums have often served as venues for book presentations, public discussions,...
Volodymyr Rafeyenko We have no other option but Victory, for which and for the sake of which we are all living. This event, whenever it happens, will be the biggest event in everyone’s life....
Since the start of Russia’s full-scale war on Ukraine, the world has discovered the unity of Ukrainians of all backgrounds in protecting their statehood. However, in the past, Ukraine, a multilingual and multicultural state, has...
Yitzhak Ben-Zvi, né Shimshelevich, was born into the Jewish family of Zvi Shimshelevich and Atara Kopelevich in Poltava in 1884. He received his primary education at a heder and continued his studies at the gymnasium...
On 15 March 2023, representatives of the Ukrainian office of the Canadian non-profit charitable organization Ukrainian Jewish Encounter (UJE) paid a visit to Uman Lyceum №1 to acquaint teachers and students with UJE's activities 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.
