Ministers of Righteousness? Greek Catholic Clergymen and Poles and Jews during World War II
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Each year, the Program on Religion and Culture.hosts the Bohdan Bociurkiw Memorial Lecture. <br /><br />This year’s lecture, held on 6 December 2012, was given by Marco Carynnyk, who spoke on the topic, “Ministers of Righteousness? Greek Catholic Clergymen and Poles and Jews during World War II.”<br /><br />Found in <a href="http://cius-archives.ca/items/show/1620">CIUS <span style="font-size:13px;color:#000000;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;font-family:Arial;font-style:normal;">Newsletter 2013</span></a>
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December 6, 2012
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English, Ukrainian
2007: The Ukrainian Insurgent Army (UPA): What Have We Learned 65 Years after Its Founding?
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The 41st annual Shevchenko Lecture, co-sponsored by CIUS and the Ukrainian Professional and Business Club of Edmonton, was delivered on 30 March 2007 by Dr. Peter J. Potichnyj, a leading authority on Ukrainian wartime insurgency, who spoke on “The Ukrainian Insurgent Army (UPA): What Have We Learned 65 Years after Its Founding?”<br /><br /> In his lecture Dr. Potichnyj addressed some of the key controversies surrounding the UPA. The first concerns the common practice of conflating the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists (OUN), especially the faction led by Stepan Bandera (OUN-B), with the UPA, giving rise to the joint acronym OUN-UPA. Professor Potichnyj pointed out that this hyphenated designation was first used by Soviet security organs to discredit the UPA by linking it with the OUNs integral-nationalist ideology of the 1930s. While acknowledging the important role played by OUN members in the UPA, Dr. Potichnyj stressed that the latter was subordinate to the Supreme Ukrainian Liberation Council (Ukrains'ka Holovna Vyzvol'na Rada), an underground governing body more broadly based than the OUN-B. The second controversy concerns estimates of the number of people involved in the UPA and underground activities generally. The Soviet-sponsored image of the UPA as a collection of undisciplined bands of gangsters has fuelled the third controversy. Here, Professor Potichnyj stressed the UPAs resemblance to a regular army, noting Soviet efforts to create armed groups that looked like UPA units and imitated them. Professor Potichnyj also discussed controversies related to ideology, concluding that the ideology of the UPA was based largely on the democratic wartime writings of Osyp Diakiv (Hornovy), P. Poltava (Fedun), and others, not on the integral nationalist ideas of Dmytro Dontsov, who came to prominence between the wars. Professor Potichnyj also discussed the Polish-Ukrainian conflict, stressing its long history and suggesting that land hunger was partly to blame for the ferocity of the struggle and the involvement of peasants in the Volhynian tragedy of 1943, when many Polish civilians were slaughtered. Other factors included plans to incorporate Volhynia into Poland, German and Soviet meddling, and the inability of Polish and Ukrainian underground leaders to reach an understanding. With regard to the Holocaust, Dr. Potichnyj noted that although the Ukrainian populace was aware of the mass murder of Jews in Ukraine, there is no documentary evidence to support the assumption that the UPA welcomed or supported it. The greatest failure of the Ukrainian underground leadership, however, was that it did not issue condemnations or proclamations of concern. Dr. Potichnyj also pointed out that he knew of no instance of Jewish leaders attempting to contact the Ukrainian underground leadership.<br /><br /> During the lecture and in the question period, the guest speaker drew on his own wartime experiences. Dr. Potichnyj, who comes from the village of Pawlokoma (Pavlokoma) near Przemysl (Peremyshl), now in Poland, became a guerrilla soldier at the age of fourteen after the mass killing of his fellow villagers by Polish Home Army (Armia Krajowa) soldiers in March 1945. Dr. Potichnyj served in the UPA until 10 September 1947, when the remnant of his company (36 soldiers), led by Mykhailo Duda (Hromenko), crossed from Soviet-occupied Austria to the US-controlled zone of Germany. He earned his Ph.D. in political science from Columbia University in 1966 and began his academic career that year as professor of political science at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario. He retired in 1995.<br /><br /> Throughout his career, Dr. Potichnyj has had a particular interest in relations between Ukrainians and their neighbours. He organized scholarly conferences on this subject that resulted in the publication of the following books by CIUS Press, which he edited or co-edited: Poland and Ukraine: Past and Present (1980); Ukrainian-Jewish Relations in Historical Perspective (1988); and Ukraine and Russia in Their Historical Encounter (1992).<br /><br /> Since 1975 Dr. Potichnyj has served as editor-in-chief of the documentary series Litopys UPA, of which 61 volumes have been published to date. He is co-editor of Political Thought of the Ukrainian Underground: 1943-1951 (Edmonton, 1986), published by CIUS Press. He is also the author of a documentary history of his native village, Pavlokoma, 1441-1945: istoriiasela (Lviv and Toronto, 2001.<br /><br />Found in <a href="http://cius-archives.ca/items/show/1614">CIUS </a><span style="font-size:13px;color:#000000;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;font-family:Arial;font-style:normal;"><a href="http://cius-archives.ca/items/show/1614">Newsletter 2007</a> </span>
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CIUS
March 30, 2007
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English, Ukrainian
Interethnic Conflict in the Awakening Village: Ukrainians and Jews in Late Nineteenth Century Galicia
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CIUS Seminar Audio Part 1 and 2.<br /><br />The tenth Institute seminar of the 1978-79 academic year at the University of Alberta took place on March 6, 1979. Dr. John-Paul Himka, research associate at the Institute and visiting assistant professor in the Department of History, spoke on "Interethnic Conflict in the Awakening Village: Ukrainians and Jews in Late Nineteenth Century Galicia."<br /><br /> The speaker examined the ethno-religious and social antagonism between Ukrainian peasants and Jews in late nineteenth century Galicia. Previously, in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries a very similar antagonism had erupted in violence from time to time, ending in pogroms against local Jews. In the late nineteenth century, as a result of the penetration of the national movement into the villages, the conflict took on a different aspect. Instead of an elemental, violent struggle, the Ukrainian peasants engaged in an institutional one, establishing reading clubs (ehytalni) as rivals to predominantly Jewish taverns, and loan funds as rivals to local Jewish creditors.<br /><br /> The seminar first discussed some problems impeding the objective study of Ukrainian- Jewish relations and then provided background on Ukrainian and Jewish society in Galicia. The main part of the seminar examined interethnic conflict in the village described in reports ( kovespondentsti) submitted to the popular Ukrainian press.<br /><br />Found in <a href="http://cius-archives.ca/items/show/1572">CIUS </a><span style="font-size:13px;color:#000000;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;font-family:Arial;font-style:normal;"><a href="http://cius-archives.ca/items/show/1572">Newsletter Vol 3 Issue 2 (Spring 1979)</a> </span>
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March 6, 1979
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English, Ukrainian
Ukrainian-Jewish Relations in Historical Perspective
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The book Ukrainian-Jewish Relations in Historical Perspective is a rich and stimulating collection of twenty-three papers from the 1983 conference on Ukrainian-Jewish relations held at McMaster University, Canada. The essays in this unique volume reflect the dynamic and often controversial nature of the conference and cover the period from the seventh century to the present day, both in Eastern Europe and Canada. Essays include:
Pre-Ashkenazic Jews of Eastern Europe
Jewish Participation in the Settlement of Ukraine in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries
The Cossack Insurrections in Jewish-Ukrainian Relations
The Jewish Factor in the Khmelnytsky Uprising
The Sion-Osnova Controversy
Jewish-Ukrainian Relations in Transcarpathia
The Dilemmas of Jewish National Autonomism
Jewish-Ukrainian Political Relations in Imperial Russia, 1900–1917
Ukrainian-Jewish Relations in the Interwar Period
The Jewish Theme in 19th and early 20th century Ukrainian Literature
Soviet Ukrainian Translations in Yiddish Literature
Jewish and Ukrainian Women
Jewish-Ukrainian Relations in Western Ukraine During the Holocaust
Ukrainian-Jewish Relations in Canada
Contributors are noted Israeli and North American scholars including Omeljan Pritsak, Jaroslaw Pelenski, George Grabowicz, Frank E. Sysyn, John-Paul Himka, Alexander Baran, Jonathan Frankel, Israel Bartal, Moshe Mishkinsky, Mattityahu Minc, Zvi Gitelman, and many others.
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CIUS
1990
English
<p>Владімір (Зеев) Жаботинський і Українське Питання: Вселюдськість у Шатах Націоналізму / Vladimir (Zeev) Jabotinsky: Universality in the Guise of Nationalism</p>
<p>This book is dedicated to political and social work of one of the most prolific members of the Zionism movement, born in Ukraine, Vladimir Jabotinsky (1880-1940), and his close connections with Ukrainian liberation movement.</p>
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CIUS, Edmonton-Toronto
1994
Ukrainian
Orthodox Clergy and the Jews in Kyiv Eparchy, 1860-1900
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<em>JUS</em> Vol. 35-36
CIUS
2010-2011
English
Myroslav Shkandrij, Jews in Ukrainian Literature: Representation and Identity
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<em>JUS</em> Vol. 35-36
CIUS
2010-2011
English
Kevin Alan Brook. <em>The Jews of Khazaria</em>
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<em>JUS</em> Vol. 33-34
CIUS
2008-2009
English
Yeshayahu A. Jelinek. <em>The Carpathian Diaspora: The Jews of Subcarpathian Rus' and Mukachevo, 1848-194</em>
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<em>JUS</em> Vol. 33-34
CIUS
2008-2009
English
Omer Bartov. <em>Erased: Vanishing Traces of Jewish Galicia in Present-Day Ukraine</em>
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<em>JUS</em> Vol. 33-34
CIUS
2008-2009
English
Shimon Redlich.<em> Together and Apart in Brzezany: Poles, Jews, and Ukrainians, 1919-1945</em>
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CIUS
Summer 2005
English
The Legal and Social Status of the Jews of Ukraine from the Fifteenth Century to the Cossack Uprising of 1648
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CIUS
Summer-Winter 1992
English
Historiography on the Jews and the Ukrainian Revolution
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CIUS
CIUS
Winter 1990
English
Benjamin Pinkus. <em>The Soviet Government and the Jews, 1948-1967: A Documented Study</em>
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CIUS
Summer 1985
English