A transcript of this discussion is available here. On 7 July 2020, the Ukrainian Institute London, in cooperation with the Ukrainian Jewish Encounter, hosted a panel discussion on the current debate in Ukraine about a...
We are talking about the Jewish scout movement, which originated in western Ukraine. Our guest today is the historian Yurii Yuzych, head of the Supervisory Board of the Plast youth organization. Vasyl Shandro: When did...
On this Encounters program, we talk about Taras Shevchenko and the interpretations, translations, and elucidations of his Yiddish translators. Our guest on the show is Oksana Pashko, a literary specialist, Candidate of Philological Studies, lecturer...
There is no European culture that did not experience the vital and essential influence of Jewish figures, says Anna Sherman, editor in chief of the journal Antikvar. Vasyl Shandro: To what degree are interethnic relations...
There are very few extant documents that illustrate the brief period of the coexistence between the fledgling Ukrainian state and independent Jewish communities in 1917–1920. Military actions, pogroms, and the displacement of millions of people...
“When something nice is said in Israel about Ukrainians, people go on the attack right away. I have been attacked many a time. It’s the same with Poles, but Ukrainians get the worst of it....
If last year, roughly around this time, early in the morning before sunrise, you saw an imposing gray-haired man in Lviv's center wandering pensively down the street, glancing at the clock, and looking around anxiously,...
Our guest in the studio is Marianna Kiyanovska, a Ukrainian poet, translator, and member of the National Writers’ Union of Ukraine and the Ukrainian branch of PEN. In 2020 she was awarded the Shevchenko Prize...
Today we are speaking with Anatoly Podolsky, the director of the Ukrainian Center for Holocaust Studies, about the Ukrainian translation of the Polish historian Robert Kuwałek’s book The Bełżec Death Camp. Andriy Kobalia: Who was...
[Editor’s note: 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...
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.
