In the end, there remains so much that is unspoken that when we say goodbye, it becomes awkward. And in this respect, it is even worse with cities than with people. With the latter you...
Today our guest on Encounters is Taras Liutyi, the Ukrainian philosopher, writer, and professor in the Faculty of Philosophy and Religious Studies at the National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy. We will be talking about the...
Briefly, the phrase “to go to Buchach” came to me when I was five years old. But what is this Buchach? Who is it? I didn’t know. Where is it, anyway? When Buchach was talked...
Aliza Begin (Ella Arnold) was born a hundred years ago, on 25 March 1920, in the city of Drohobych (today: Lviv oblast), into a wealthy family that owned several oil wells in Boryslav. Aliza’s father,...
After all, like always, everything is resolved by optics and context. My second visit to Buchach happened once again in autumn, when the foliage and the sun recede slowly, exposing the stone backbone of the...
[Editor’s note: On 7 March 2020, Israel’s The Jerusalem Post published an opinion piece by Liliana Hentosh titled “Time to reject the myths of Andrei Sheptytsky” in which the author argued for an accurate portrayal...
Khersonsky talks about the repressions against the Jews, the Yiddish language, and family memory. Our guest today is the poet Boris Khersonsky. Our talk is pegged to a sad but very crucial date, 12 August...
Yevheniya Kononenko, a Ukrainian writer, translator from the French and English, author of feminist prose works, and a resident of Kyiv, did a residency at the Agnon Literary Center in Buchach. She stayed for one...
This is Encounters, a program dedicated to Ukrainian-Jewish relations. Today we are talking about diversity as a resource. This topic was inspired by a Facebook posting authored by Iryna Solovey, the co-founder of Garage Gang....
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 we are presenting our organization’s initiatives and...
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.
