[Editor’s note: Shavout in 2025 begins in the Diaspora at sundown on Sunday, 1 June 2025 and ends at nightfall on Tuesday, 3 June 2025.] In this episode of the Encounters program, we will discuss...
The female duo of Anna and Angelina Zaval'sky, known as The Alibi Sisters, has been shining in the Ukrainian-Jewish musical scene for five years. Their songs in Yiddish and Ukrainian captivate with charm and melody,...
The exhibition "Doll Memories of a Jewish Town" has been mounted in the State Toy Museum in Kyiv and will be open until the summer. It has aroused great interest among Kyiv residents and received...
Yelyzaveta Lytvynchuk, a member of the Advisory Council on Indigenous Peoples at the State Service of Ukraine for Ethnic Policy and Freedom of Conscience, speaks about the Karaites and their cultural heritage. Discovering Karaite background...
The Encounters program has invited Tetiana Shyshkina, a PhD student at the International Center for Culture Studies at the Justus Liebich University of Giessen and a graduate of several programs at the Kyiv-Mohyla Academy, including...
Our guest is Abraham Kefeli, a hazzan and teacher of computer music, music theory, piano, arrangement, and composition. He is a Karaite who was born in Simferopol and now lives in Israel. On 9 August,...
Art critic Bohdana Pinchevska talks about secular Jewish art of Eastern Galicia in 1900–1939. Bohdana Pinchevska's book on secular Jewish art Yelyzaveta Tsarehradska: Today, we will talk about your book. This book, I'm sure, is...
The International Council of Museums (ICOM), headquartered in Paris, is the most prestigious global organization of museums and museum professionals. In mid-June 2024, President of ICOM Ukraine Anastasiia Cherednychenko spoke at the annual meeting of...
Fact: you can't read Russian folktales to Jewish children as they don't teach what is needed. I read "Ryaba the Hen" to my son, which left me in a mental shock. The plot is as...
The Israeli political scientist and expert on the integration of olim (Jewish immigrants) from the former Soviet Union (FSU) into Israeli society discusses the impact of the Russo-Ukrainian War on migration trends in the Jewish...
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.
