JOURNAL OF UKRAINIAN STUDIES Summer-Winter 1992 CONTRIBUTORS: GUEST EDITORS: Zenon E. Kohut Dushan Bednarsky laroslav Isaievych Zenon E. Kohut Mikhail Dmitriev Frank E. Sysyn Ihor SevCenko Antoni Mironowicz David A. Frick IpHHa BopoHHyK Shmuel Ettinger Frank E. Sysyn Serhii Plokhy Natalia Pylypiuk Peter Rolland Dushan Bednarsky Digitized by the Internet Archive in 2016 https://archive.org/details/journalofukraini1712cana JOURNAL OF UKRAINIAN STUDIES Volume 17, Numbers 1-2 Summer-Winter 1992 SPECIAL ISSUE EARLY MODERN UKRAINE GUEST EDITORS: CONTRIBUTORS: Dushan Bednarsky Zenon E. Kohut Zenon E. Kohut laroslav Isaievych Erank E. Sysyn Mikhail Dmitriev Ihor Sevcenko Antoni Mironowicz David A. Frick IpHHa BopoHuyK Shmuel Ettinger Frank E. Sysyn Serhii Plokhy Natalia Pylypiuk Peter Rolland Dushan Bednarsky EDITOR Zenon E. Kohut Editorial Board Marusia K. Petryshyn Danylo Husar Struk Frances A. Swyripa Frank E. Sysyn Maxim Tarnawsky The Journal of Ukrainian Studies is published semiannually in the summer and winter by the Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies, University of Alberta. Annual subscription rates are $16.50 ($1.05 GST inch) for individuals and $21.50 ($1.40 GST incl.) for libraries and institutions in Canada. Outside of Canada annual subscription rates are $15.00 for individuals and $20.00 for libraries and institutions. Subscribers outside of Canada should pay in US funds. Cheques and money orders are payable to the Journal of Ukrainian Studies. Please do not send cash. The Journal publishes articles on Ukrainian and Ukrainian-Canadian studies. It also publishes discussions, book reviews, and journalistic articles of a controversial or problem-oriented nature. Ideally, those wishing to submit articles should first send a letter of inquiry, with a brief abstract of the article to the editor at CIUS, 352 Athabasca Hall, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, T6K 2E8. Fax (403) 492-4967. Copyright © Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies, 1992. Articles appearing in this journal are abstracted and indexed in Historical Abstracts and America: Histori/ and Life. Printed in Canada. ISSN 0228-1635 6og/«vTfMa 9c rx ceAgjiie &MuiH 1 cgoe m Leontii Tarasevych. Dormition Cathedral of the Kievan Caves Monastery. Paterik of the Kievan Caves Monastery (Kiev, 1702). VOLUME 17 NUMBERS 1-2 SUMMER-WINTER 1992 CONTENTS SPECIAL ISSUE EARLY MODERN UKRAINE Preface / 1 Zenon E. Kohut Belarus, Russia, and Ukraine from the Sixteenth to the Eighteenth Century: An Agenda for the Study of Politics / 3 laroslav Isaievych Early Modern Belarus, Russia, and Ukraine: Culture and Cultural Relations / 17 Mikhail Dmitriev The Religious Programme of the Union of Brest in the Context of the Counter-Reformation in Eastern Europe / 29 Ihor Sevcenko Religious Polemical Literature in the Ukrainian and Belarusian Lands in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries / 45 Antoni Mironowicz Orthodox Centres and Organizations in Podlachia from the Mid-Sixteenth through the Seventeenth Century / 59 David A. Frick Zyzanij and Smotryc'kyj (Moscow, Constantinople, and Kiev): Episodes in Cross-Cultural Misunderstanding / 67 IpHHa BopoHMyK /\o nMTaHHH npo coyiaAbHO-CKOHOMiMHe cTaHOBHUje ceAancTBa BoAHHi B nepmiH noyXOBimi XVII ct. / 95 : Shmuel Ettinger The Legal and Social Status of the Jews of Ukraine from the Fifteenth Century to the Cossack Uprising of 1648 / 107 Frank E. Sysyn The Khmelnytsky Uprising and Ukrainian Nation-Building / 141 Serhii Plokhy The Symbol of Little Russia: The Pokrova Icon and Early Modern Ukrainian Political Ideology / 171 Natalia Pylypiuk Poetry as Milk: A Seventeenth-Century Metaphor and its Pedagogical Context / 189 Peter Rolland "Nieskoro" prawi "monsztuk do tych trqb otrzymacie” On Lazar Baranovyc's Truhy slaves propovidnyx and their Non-publication in Moscow / 205 Dushan Bednarsky Ex abundantia enim cordis os loquitor: Dymytrij Tuptalo's Ukrainian Sermons and the Kievan Rhetorical Model / 217 Contributors / 245 Preface The establishment of the Peter Jacyk Centre for Ukrainian Historical Research has strengthened the study of early modern Ukraine at the Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies. The centre's major project, producing an English translation of Mykhailo Hrushevsky's Istoriia Ukrainy-Rusy, has focused its work on the medieval and early modern periods. Three scholarly associates of the centre—Zenon Kohut, Serhii Plokhy, and Frank Sysyn—are specialists in early modern Ukrainian history. In cooperation with Natalia Pylypiuk and Peter Rolland, faculty members of the university's Slavic Studies Department who specialize in the period, they have expanded research on and teaching about early modern Ukraine at the University of Alberta. Since its founding, the Jacyk Centre has sponsored guest lectures by noted scholars of early modern Ukraine, including David Frick of the University of California, Berkeley; laroslav Isaievych of the Institute of Social Sciences at the Academy of Sciences, Lviv; and Antoni M^czak of the University of Warsaw. The Jacyk Centre has undertaken a number of projects to further the development of studies on early modern Ukraine. In conjunction with the Institute of Balkan and Slavic Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, and the Institute of Ukrainian Studies of the Ukrainian Academy of Sciences, Lviv, it is publishing a series of sources on seventeenth-century Ukrainian history in Russian archives. The centre's English-language monograph series will include several volumes on the period, the first of which will be Ihor Sevcenko's Ukraine between East and West: Essays in Cultural Elistory (to the 1700s). The centre's Ukrainian- language monograph series, undertaken in conjunction with the Archaeographic Institute of the Ukrainian Academy of Sciences, also concentrates on the early modern period. In 1994, it will publish a translation of Zenon Kohut's Russian Centralism and Ukrainian Autonomy. The centre has also been instrumental in enabling specialists on the early modern period from Ukraine to carry on archival projects in Poland. This special volume of the Journal of Ukrainian Studies began as a project to publish the papers given at a panel on relations among Belarusians, Ukrainians, and Russians from the sixteenth to the seven- teenth centuries, sponsored by the Jacyk Centre at the Fourth World Congress for Soviet and East European Studies at Harrogate, England, on 26 July 1990. When additional papers on the subject were received, it 2 became feasible to devote a double issue of the journal to early modern Ukraine. Dushan Bednarsky, a graduate student in Slavic Studies at the University of Alberta, undertook and accomplished the editing of the volume, together with Frank Sysyn and Zenon Kohut. The editors are grateful to the editorial board of Zion for permitting the publication of Shmuel Ettinger's article; we also thank Alan Rutkowski for translating the article from Ffebrew into English, and Lynn Hirsch and Gershon Hundert for editorial advice. We thank Peter Rolland for his careful reading of the proofs of this volume. Uliana Pasicznyk has rendered editorial assistance in the production of the volume, and Nancy Misener has entered editorial corrections with care. D.B. Z.K. F.S. Journal of Ukrainian Studies 17, nos. 1-2 (Summer-Winter 1992) Belarus, Russia, and Ukraine from the Sixteenth to the Eighteenth Century: An Agenda for the Study of Politics^ Zenon E. Kohut The study of politics among the East Slavs has been coloured by a number of political and cultural presuppositions. In the nineteenth century, most Russian historians viewed Ukrainians and Belarusians as wayward branches of a single Russian nation and judged historical events and personalities from that perspective. Differences between Russians, on the one hand, and Ukrainians and Belarusians, on the other, were explained as the result of contamination by Polish influences. That view was brought to the West by Russian emigre historians after the Russian revolution and, to a remarkable extent, was accepted by their Western students.’ Ukrainian and Belarusian historians eventually created their own conception of national history. In the nineteenth century, however, Ukrainian historiography was dominated by populism. The populists made significant contributions to political history but their primary interest was in social issues, such as the struggle of the masses for free- dom and social justice against Polish and Russian landlords. Only with the emergence of a "statist" orientation in the twentieth century did historical research focus on politics, particularly on indicators Although almost all works dealing with political affairs in early modern Ukrainian and, to a lesser degree, Belarusian history touch upon practical relations with Muscovy /Russia, relatively few analytical or thematic works on the topic exist. In general, historians of Russia paid little attention to the topic. By the 1930s, it was virtually taboo in Soviet historiography. In this essay only a few important and more recent works are mentioned. — 4 Zenon E. Kohut of Ukrainian or Belarusian statehood. Some Belarusian and Ukrainian historians viewed the Grand Duchy of Lithuania as an embodiment of Belarusian and/or Ukrainian statehood. Much attention was paid to politics and foreign relations (e.g., the Ukrainian Cossack political entity). After the statist historical school was proscribed in the Soviet Union, it was continued by Ukrainian and Belarusian emigre historians. In the Soviet Union, Marxist historians of the 1920s viewed Russian expansion