“In the collection of poems The Jewish King, Oleksandr Averbuch offers, or more precisely invents, writing in which memory and oblivion are tightly intertwined, forgetting and remembering, creation and resuscitation. This is an intertwined panorama...
I can’t recall exactly when, but I came to know Alex Averbuch’s poetry somewhere in our shared intersections of Ukrainian studies, gender studies, and poetry. A native of Novoaider, a village in the Luhansk region...
About the division into "good" and "bad" Jews: those who survived concentration camps and ghettos, and those who were evacuated. How does this relate to Ukraine today? A conversation with Anatoly Podolsky, the head of...
Originally appeared @Krytyka By Maksym Gon But I don't rule out that something else should come to replace being in the captivity of collective trauma. Perhaps it's a kind of symbiosis reflecting that we, despite...
Ukrainian writer Vasyl Makhno traveled to Israel between 23 June and 2 July 2023 to discuss the intersection of Ukrainian and Jewish literature and culture in Ukraine and abroad. His presentations before Ukrainian-, English- and...
We continue our series of articles dedicated to the Ukrainian Righteous Among the Nations living in the cities affected by Russian aggression. Today, western Ukraine has become a place of refuge for several million people...
The following interview with the historian Serhii Plokhy focuses on his latest book, The Russo-Ukrainian War: The Return of History, in which he reflects on the causes of the current war, its possible consequences for...
By Olena Stiazhkina Originally appeared @Krytyka Space can be nameless. Without a capital letter at the beginning of the word. A plantation, a forest belt, a road, a field. You can add the word "mines"...
Our conversation with the Italian historian Andrea Graziosi is focused on the Russo-Ukrainian War and its historical and political contexts. What are the main historical origins of this war? Can the policies of the Russian...
By Váno Krueger Originally appeared @Krytyka War is a disease that isn't localized on the front. As syphilis ultimately infects the entire body, not just the initially affected area, war infects all of society. War...
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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.
