My immersion in this man’s biography began by accident. I discovered a brief reference in an article stating that Metropolitan Andrei Sheptytsky had expressed support for Zionism and the creation of a Jewish state in...
On 2 February 2021, the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine adopted a decision establishing 14 May as the day on which Ukrainians who rescued Jews during the Second World War are honored. Our guest on today's...
This 16 June 2021 discussion was devoted to “The State of Contemporary Jewish Life in Ukraine”, with the participation of Berel Rodal, Board Member of the Ukrainian Jewish Encounter; Rabbi Shmuel Kamitnetsky, Rabbi of the...
Ukrainian Jewish Encounter, the Agnon Literary Center (Buchach, Ukraine) and the NGO “Publishers Forum” (Lviv, Ukraine) are supporters of the First International Agnon Festival, which will be held live via Zoom and Facebook between June...
The residency for writers, essayists, and translators organized by the Agnon Literary Center in Buchach has already taken place twice. Over the course of a week, participants are invited to reside in the city where...
Ukrainian Jewish Encounter, the Agnon Literary Center (Buchach, Ukraine) and the NGO "Publishers Forum" (Lviv, Ukraine) are supporters of the First International Agnon Festival, which will be held live via Zoom and Facebook between June...
Marla Raucher Osborn and Jay Osborn are the founders of Rohatyn Jewish Heritage (RJH), a non-profit, non-governmental organization (NGO) that develops and manages heritage preservation projects aimed at reconnecting the 400-year history of Rohatyn's now-lost...
Exactly sixty years ago, a group of Israelis, including top officials and distinguished personalities of the young Jewish state, perceived themselves for the first time as natives of Ukraine. Who organized the first "Ukrainian encounter,"...
On 25 March 2021, a monument to the Ukrainian Greek Catholic priest Omelian Kovch was erected in Lublin, Poland, next to the Majdanek State Museum, founded on the grounds of the Majdanek death camp. At...
This 21 May book discussion was devoted to the monograph/memoir of Ruben (Reuven) Fahn (1878-1939/1944?) on Jews in the Western Ukrainian National Republic (1918-1919). The book, originally published in 1933 in Yiddish, has been translated...
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.
