To forget nothing If Buchach is a city of returning, then I got back in time. Are they not for me, these unpainted and unplastered facades of buildings lining the narrow streets above the Strypa...
The launch of Sofia Andrukhovych’s just-published novel Amadoka was supposed to take place at the Mystetskyi Arsenal National Art and Culture Museum Complex on 21 March 2020. Over two hundred people were expected at this...
Today we are speaking with Lilia Omelianenko, cofounder of the Vydavnytstvo Publishing House, about the graphic novel Maus: A Survivor’s Tale which will soon appear in a Ukrainian translation. It was written by the American...
Small towns are a special kind of world. According to Yurii Sherekh, anything that does not assert itself as a capital of the world remains a hopeless province. And that is why small towns have...
Poland during the interwar period was one of the largest Jewish centers in the world. According to the 1921 census, it was home to 2,845,000 Jews, or over ten percent of the entire population.[1] Poland...
Social historian Daryna Podhornova, who researches women’s history, discusses the lives of Jewish women in gubernial cities and small shtetls, and explains how education was connected with revolution. Iryna Slavinska: We met on the occasion...
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,...
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.
