{"id":13372,"date":"2019-04-05T00:15:10","date_gmt":"2019-04-05T00:15:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ukrainianjewishencounter.org\/?p=13372"},"modified":"2019-04-05T00:15:10","modified_gmt":"2019-04-05T00:15:10","slug":"uje-supported-publications-displayed-in-london-and-paris","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ukrainianjewishencounter.org\/en\/uje-supported-publications-displayed-in-london-and-paris\/","title":{"rendered":"UJE-supported publications displayed in London and Paris"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Books supported by the Ukrainian Jewish Encounter were on full display at two prominent European book fairs recently. At both the London and Paris book fairs, visitors praised not only the high quality of the publications, but noted they added to a greater understanding of Ukraine as a multicultural and multiethnic country.<\/p>\n

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The Ukrainian Jewish Encounter\u2019s display at the London Book Fair. UJE was a sponsor of the Ukraine country booth.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The books shown at the fairs included A Journey Through the Ukrainian-Jewish Encounter: From Antiquity to 1914<\/em> by UJE co-director Alti Rodal; Jews and Ukrainians: A Millennium of Co-Existence <\/em>by UJE board member Paul Robert Magocsi and Yohanan Petrovsky-Shtern; Babyn Yar: History and Memory<\/em>, a collection of monographs by a group of internationally-renowned scholars who discuss the treatment of Babyn Yar in culture, music, and the arts from Stalinist times to our own; The Key in the Pocket<\/em>, a collection of essays by three prominent Ukrainian writers who reflect on the works of Nobel-prize winning writer S.Y. Agnon and his native Buchach, located in western Ukraine; and The Ukrainian-Jewish Encounter: Cultural Dimensions, <\/em>a collection of essays that examine the interaction between the Ukrainian and Jewish cultures from the seventeenth century onwards.<\/p>\n

The UJE joined other organizations, including Ukraine\u2019s culture ministry, the Ukrainian Book Institute and the Ukrainian Publishers and Booksellers Association, as one of the sponsors of the Ukraine country booth at both the London and Paris book fairs. The organization became part of Ukraine\u2019s literary history when, for the first time, Ukraine unveiled a country stand at the London Book Fair, which is one of the most important literary venues globally. UJE-supported publications were prominently displayed at the inaugural booth.<\/p>\n

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Ukraine\u2019s Minister of Culture Yevhen Nyshchuk (left) and Natalia Galibarenko, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Ukraine to the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (right) hold two books sponsored by the Ukrainian Jewish Encounter at the London Book Fair. The books are \u201cJews and Ukrainians: A Millennium of Co-Existence\u201d by UJE board member Paul Robert Magocsi and Yohanan Petrovsky-Shtern, and \u201cA Journey Through the Ukrainian Jewish Encounter: From Antiquity to 1914\u201d by UJE co-director Alti Rodal.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Ukraine\u2019s culture minister Yevhen Nyshchuk<\/a> and Ukraine\u2019s ambassador to the United Kingdom Natalia Galibarenko welcomed enthusiastic exhibitors and visitors during the stand\u2019s unveiling. Jacks Thomas, director of the London Book Fair called the country \u201ca whole new exciting book market\u201d and spoke warmly of her recent trip to Ukraine.<\/p>\n

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The Ukrainian Jewish Encounter\u2019s publications displayed at the Salon du Livre de Paris\/Paris Book Fair.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The Ukraine country booth in Paris again wowed visitors, who eagerly listened to and participated in a series of presentations by Ukrainian and French authors writing on Ukraine-related themes, including Ukrainian-Jewish relations. Organizers noted interest in the latter in France is growing. Indeed the Ukraine booth hosted presentations on two new French-language books devoted to Ukrainian-Jewish interactions.<\/p>\n

For more from the book fairs in London and Paris, see our photos below.<\/p>\n\n\t\t