Panteleimon Kulish (1819–97), influential writer, historian, and ethnographer, the first person to have translated the entire Bible into modern Ukrainian and the first to write historical novels in Ukrainian. [Editor’s note: The Ukrainian Jewish Encounter...
We are discussing the much-awaited [Ukrainian-language] publication of the texts Shosha and The Slave, by Isaac Bashevis Singer, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature. More details about these texts will be provided by the...
We are talking about the South of Ukraine, the intersection of cultures and civilizations. Our guest on today’s show is the Orientalist and translator Oles Kulchynsky. Oles Kulchynsky: The Black Sea Lowland [Prychornomoria] is an...
Did you know that the late United States Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg (15 March 1933 – 18 September 2020), the second woman appointed to the Court and a renowned pioneer of women’s rights,...
In 1936 a young Ukrainian named Nestor Sniadanko, a native of the city of Sokal, in Galicia, began his studies at the Faculty of German Philology at Lviv University. There he met a fellow student,...
With English CCs In Episode 4 of our video blog, we discuss the organization of public events in Ukraine centered on the outstanding UJE-supported book Jews and Ukrainians: A Millennium of Co-Existence. Namely, about our...
This year marks the sixtieth anniversary of the death of Pavlo Petro Goidych (1888–1960), bishop of the Greek Catholic Church of Slovakia and a distinguished religious figure of Ruthenian-Ukrainian background, to whom Israel awarded the...
(With English CCs) Episode 2 of this video blog highlighted the exhibition "A Journey Through the Ukrainian-Jewish Encounter: From Antiquity to 1939", which was displayed in Kyiv in late May 2020. Episode 3 discusses UJE’s...
UJE was launched in 2008 with the goal of strengthening mutual comprehension and solidarity between Ukrainians and Jews, two peoples who have lived on the territory of modern-day Ukraine for over a millennium. Among UJE’s...
[Editor’s note: “Our stories are incomplete without each other” is the slogan of Ukrainian Jewish Encounter, which, with the support of the Lviv, Ukraine-based “Publisher’s Forum” is sponsor of “Encounter: The Ukrainian-Jewish Literary Prize” ™.]...
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.
