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“The shtetl was a Jewish Atlantis,” says Yohanan Petrovsky-Shtern

Posted On: June 6th, 2019

Posted In: Jews on Ukrainian Lands, Hromadske Radio, Sponsored Projects, History, Audio/Visual Media

The American historian Yohanan Petrovsky-Shtern discusses the Golden Age of the Jewish town, Polish magnates, and fragments of shtetl culture. Iryna Slavinska: We met through the lecture “Shtetl: The Jewish Town Phenomenon,” which was held...

Portnikov, Lyubka, and Radutsky: “Small Town: Together and Apart”

Posted On: June 5th, 2019

Posted In: UJE Initiatives, Book Fairs/Festivals, Sponsored Projects, Publications, Outreach

“The discussion was incredibly unpredictable, metaphysical, and current, even though it concerned phenomena that would appear to be steeped in the past.” This was what our old friend and moderator Andriy Pavlyshyn said about the...

Beregovski at the 2018 KlezKanada festival

Posted On: May 29th, 2019

Posted In: UJE Initiatives, Book Fairs/Festivals, Culture, Music, Outreach

The work of Ukrainian-Jewish ethnomusicologist Moyshe Beregovksi (1892-1961) was featured in 2018’s UJE-supported KlezKanada festival. Beregovksi was among the first to indicate similarities in melody and means of expression in Ukrainian and Jewish folk music. The world-renowned...

A mirror, paintings, and horses: What do the heroes of Jewish tales recount in interwar Chernivtsi?

Posted On: May 28th, 2019

Posted In: Hromadske Radio, Sponsored Projects, Literature, Culture, Audio/Visual Media

The Yiddish literature specialist Moshe Lemster talks about the Bessarabian fabulist Eliezer Shteynbarg. Andriy Kobalia: In the late nineteenth century, in a frontier village in Khotyn County, Bessarabia gubernia, fables began to be written by...

Ukrainian Jewish Encounter at the Kyiv Jewish Forum, 5–7 May 2019

Posted On: May 23rd, 2019

Posted In: UJE Initiatives, World Jewish Congress, Sheptytsky Award, Outreach

Below, a video report from the Kyiv Jewish Forum 2019, which took place 5–7 May in Kyiv. The event was organized and held in partnership with the Ukrainian Jewish Encounter, the Jewish Confederation of Ukraine,...

“A city on hills in a green dress”: How did the Jews live in Chernivtsi during the Romanian period?

Posted On: May 20th, 2019

Posted In: Jews on Ukrainian Lands, Hromadske Radio, Sponsored Projects, Audio/Visual Media, History

The historians Daniel Hrenciuc and Maria Nykyrsa discuss the political and everyday dimensions of life in Chernivtsi between the two world wars. Andriy Kobalia: This small frontier city was initially part of the Principality of...

Shlomo Adler: the story of the rescue of a Jew from Galicia

Posted On: May 15th, 2019

Posted In: Jews on Ukrainian Lands, History

The Israeli newspaper Israel ha-Yom (Israel Today) published on the Day of Remembrance of Holocaust and Heroism, 2 May 2019, the story of the rescue of Shlomo Adler from the town of Bolekhiv in Western...

The Meridian: Chernivtsi

Posted On: May 13th, 2019

Posted In: Jews on Ukrainian Lands, History, Ethnography

Chernivtsi inspires the imagination. Sitting at the crossroads of great empires, this western Ukrainian city located in the country’s famed Bukovyna region was home to a myriad of writers, artists, musicians and ethnic groups, each...

At inaugural Kyiv Jewish Forum, WJC President Ronald S. Lauder awarded Sheptytsky Medal for deepening relations between Ukrainians and Jews

Source: World Jewish Congress

Posted On: May 9th, 2019

Posted In: UJE Initiatives, Sheptytsky Award

KYIV, Ukraine – The World Jewish Congress joined the Jewish Confederation of Ukraine on Monday for its inaugural Kyiv Jewish Forum, a two-day event aimed at promoting deeper ties between the Ukrainian Jewish population and world Jewry and offering a platform for galvanizing European efforts in the fight against antisemitism.

Sholem Aleichem’s son-in-law’s search for Jewish writers in Kyiv

Posted On: May 6th, 2019

Posted In: Sponsored Projects, Other Programs, Diverse Voices, Istorychna Pravda

“I sat down and began thinking about Jews and Ukrainians. About Ukrainians, who so extolled Ukraine to me, and about Jews, who are afraid of answering a telephone call from a Jews. And Tevye’s words...

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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.

Encounter: The Ukrainian-Jewish Literary Prize

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."

FROM ANTIQUITY TO 1914

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.

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“The shtetl was a Jewish Atlantis,” says Yohanan Petrovsky-Shtern

Portnikov, Lyubka, and Radutsky: “Small Town: Together and Apart”

Beregovski at the 2018 KlezKanada festival

A mirror, paintings, and horses: What do the heroes of Jewish tales recount in interwar Chernivtsi?

Ukrainian Jewish Encounter at the Kyiv Jewish Forum, 5–7 May 2019

“A city on hills in a green dress”: How did the Jews live in Chernivtsi during the Romanian period?

Shlomo Adler: the story of the rescue of a Jew from Galicia

The Meridian: Chernivtsi

At inaugural Kyiv Jewish Forum, WJC President Ronald S. Lauder awarded Sheptytsky Medal for deepening relations between Ukrainians and Jews

Sholem Aleichem’s son-in-law’s search for Jewish writers in Kyiv

Ukrainian Jewish Encounter Timeline wins international recognition while countering Russian propaganda

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Ukrainian Jewish Encounter Timeline wins international recognition while countering Russian propaganda

Web Excellence Awards:

w3 Awards:

Anthem Awards:

Communicator Awards:

Encounter: The Ukrainian-Jewish Literary Prize

Download the complete 168-page book

A Journey Through the Ukrainian-Jewish Encounter

FROM ANTIQUITY TO 1914

All-Ukrainian Student's Drawing Competition 2021/2022

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