CHERNIVTSI — I wanted to hear Yiddish. The Yiddish that Wolf Moskovich – professor emeritus of the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, board member of the Ukrainian Jewish Encounter and Chernivtsi native – spoke about only...
Bukovyna inspires the imagination. Sitting at the crossroads of great empires, this Ukrainian region was home to a myriad of writers, artists, musicians and ethnic groups, each who forever left their imprint. Wolf Moskovich, Board...
The translator Victor Radutzky discusses translations from Hebrew to Ukrainian and the reverse; Amos Oz, Shmuel Yosef Agnon, and Vasyl Stus; and Kyiv and Jerusalem. Iryna Slavinska: Our guest on the program today is an...
In Buchach, the roosters wake up at four o’clock in the morning. Perhaps the voices of the Buchach roosters have not changed since [Shem’uel Yosef] Agnon lived in the city. And now, during my stay...
Ukrainian Jewish Encounter (UJE) is a Canadian philanthropic organization that has been working since 2008 to strengthen relations between our two peoples. This year marks the sixth time that we are presenting our organization’s initiatives...
Many among us indeed consider Taras Shevchenko a linguistic curiosity. To them, it appears to be an oddity, a curiosity: the man had an excellent command of Russian and was able to pen his poems...
What are the causes of postwar antisemitism in the USSR, how was cosmopolitanism combated on the ground, and is the theory about the deportation of Jews to the Far East in 1953 justified? These are...
Clarinetist Mitya Gerasimov, the leader of the Kyiv-based Pushkin Klezmer Band, reveals how klezmer is linked to jazz, fakelore, and new but traditional Jewish music. Iryna Slavinska: In this podcast we will be listening to...
[Editor’s note: In 1913, Mykhailo Hrushevskyi wrote an article in Lviv’s Literaturno-naukovyi vistnyk in the aftermath of the trial of Mendel Beilis. Beilis, a Jew, had been accused of ritual murder in Kyiv and was...
[Editor’s note: In Kyiv in 1913 Mendel Beilis, a Jew, was accused of the ritual murder of Andrii Yushchynsky, a 13-year-old Ukrainian boy. Mykola Krasovsky, the lead investigator of the Kyiv Police Department, carried out...
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.
