By Vladyslava Moskalets As I was leaving for my month-long research stay in Paris, I took along Blooming Spaces: The Collected Poetry, Prose, Critical Writing, and Letters of Debora Vogel (2020), translated and edited by...
Jews and Ukrainians: A Millennium of Co-Existence is an award-winning book that explores the relationship between two of Ukraine’s most historically significant peoples over the centuries. In its second edition, the book tells the story of...
Carol of the Bells is one of the world's most recognized and beloved Christmas melodies. Yet many people still don't know the song originated in Ukraine. First performed in the United States in Carnegie Hall...
In 2024, Encounter: The Ukrainian-Jewish Literary Prize was awarded in the nonfiction category and went to Yuriy Skira for his book Solid. The Life-Saving Footwear Factory, recently published by the Lviv-based Choven publishing house. The...
Jews and Ukrainians: A Millennium of Co-Existence is an award-winning book that explores the relationship between two of Ukraine’s most historically significant peoples over the centuries. In its second edition, the book tells the story of...
"Jews must leave the city of Kharkiv," wrote a German soldier or officer on the back of this photo, and calmly proceeded to write with his ink pen. This photo can be dated even though...
A roundtable discussion about the book Babyn Yar: History and Memory occurred on 21 November at the 2024 ASEEES Annual Convention in Boston. The roundtable members were Olga Kiyan of Harvard University, Norman Naimark of...
Yulia Robchynska, a Jewish education manager at Project Kesher, talks about Hanukkah. [Editor’s note: This interview originally aired in 2023.] What is Hanukkah for your family? Yulia Robchynska: In my family, this holiday was not...
Yohanan Petrovsky-Shtern is a man of many trades. He is a historian, a linguist, a translator, an essayist, and an artist, and the list goes on and on. Currently living in the United States, he...
Jews and Ukrainians: A Millennium of Co-Existence is an award-winning book that explores the relationship between two of Ukraine’s most historically significant peoples over the centuries. In its second edition, the book tells the story of...
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.
