JOURNAL OF UKRAINIAN STUDIES 2012 Guest Editors Martin Schulze Wessel and Frank E. Sysyn Contributors Martha Bohachevsky-Chomiak Tobias Grill Liliana Hentosh Leonid Heretz Kerstin S. Jobst Michael Moser Oleh Pavlyshyn Frank E. Sysyn Burkhard Woller Digitized by the Internet Archive in 2016 https://archive.org/details/journalofukraini37cana Journal OF UKRAINIANSTUDIES Volume 37 2012 Special Issue: Religion, Nation, and Secularization in Ukraine Guest Editors Martin Schulze Wessel and Frank E. Sysyn Contributors Martha Bohachevsky-Chomiak • Tobias Grill • Liliana Hentosh • Leonid Heretz • Kerstin S. Jobst • Michael Moser • Oleh Pavlyshyn • Frank E. Sysyn • Burkhard Woller Editor Roman Senkus Book Review Editor Thomas M. Prymak CIUS Editorial Board John-Paul Himka, Zenon E. Kohut, Andrij Makuch, David R. Marples, Marusia K. Petryshyn, Roman Senkus, Marko Robert Stech, Frank E. 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Jobst Transnational and Trans-Denominational Aspects of the Veneration of Saint Josaphat Kuntsevych 1 Burkhard Woller The Church Union of Brest in National Discourse: Polish and Ukrainian Evaluations in Galician Historiography 19 Michael Moser Clerics and Laymen in the History of the Modern Standard Ukrainian Language 41 Tobias Grill Rabbis as Agents of Modernization in the Lands of Ukraine, 1840-1900 63 Frank E. Sysyn Religion within the Ukrainian Populist Credo: The Enlightened Pastor Mykhailo Zubrytsky 85 Liliana Hentosh Vatican Policy on the Ukrainian-Polish War of 1918-1919 as an Example of the Catholic Church’s Response to National Conflicts 97 Oleh Pavlyshyn The Calendar Question in the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church, 1900-1930 113 Martha Bohachevsky-Chomiak Shadow Boxing: Ukrainian Greek Catholic Hierarchs and the Ukrainian Community, 1900-1930 131 Leonid Heretz Secularization, Religion, and Superstition in the Ukrainian Carpathians: Some Findings of an Oral History Project 155 Review Articles Stephen P. Scherer Skovoroda Seen More Clearly 167 W. Roman Petryshyn A Ukrainian Guidebook on Canadian Identity 1 77 Book Reviews Andrew Wilson, The Ukrainians: Unexpected Nation (Oleh Havrylyshyn) 189 4 1 /V Zenon E. Kohut, Making Ukraine: Studies on Political Culture, Historical Narrative, and Identity (Andrew B. Pemal) 193 Tatiana Tairova-Yakovleva, Mazepa-, and T. G. Tairova-Yakovleva, Ivan Mazepa i rossiiskaia imperiia: Istoriia “predate!'stva” (Thomas M. Prymak) 194 Virginie Symaniec, La construction ideologique slave orientale: Langues, races et nations dans la Russie duXDC siecle (Michael Moser) 197 Anna Makolkin, The Nineteenth Century in Odessa: One Hundred Years of Italian Culture on the Shores ofthe Black Sea (1794-1894) (Vitaly Chemetsky) 1 99 Natan M. Meir, Kiev: Jewish Metropolis. A History, 1 859-19 1 (Serhiy Bilenky) ....201 Jacques Le Rider and Heinz Raschel, eds., La Galicie au temps des Habsbourg (1772-1918): Histoire, societe, cultures en contact (Thomas M. Prymak) 205 Serhii Yekelchyk, Ukrainofily: Svit ukra'ins'kykh patriotiv druhoi polovyny XIX stolittia (Michael Moser) 207 Andreas Kappeler, Russland und die Ukraine: Verflochtene Biographien und Geschichten (Michael Moser) 209 Vasyl Veryha, Vyzvol'na borot'ba v Ukraini, 1 91 4-1 923 rr. (Ernest Gyidel) 21 Stephen Velychenko. State Building in Revolutionary Ukraine: A Comparative Study ofGovernments and Bureaucrats, 1 91 7-1922 (Mark von Hagen) 212 Yurii Mytsyk, ed., Ukrains'kyi holokost, 1932-1933: Svidchennia tykh, khto vyzhyv, vol. 5 (Hiroaki Kuromiya) 215 Volodymyr V’iatrovych, Druha pol's'ko-ukrains'ka viina, 1942-1947 (Alexander Motyl) 216 Petro-Yosyf Potichnyi, Sprava bat'ka (Bohdan Klid) 218 Hiroaki Kuromiya. Conscience on Trial: The Fate of Fourteen Pacifists in Stalin’s Ukraine, 1952-1953 (Thomas M. Prymak) 220 William Jay Risch, The Ukrainian West: Culture and the Fate ofEmpire in Soviet Lviv (Michael Moser) 221 Jenny Alwart, Mit Taras Sevcenko Staat machen: Erinnerungskultur und Geschichtspolitik in der Ukraine vor und nach 1991 (Michael Moser) 225 Marian J. Rubchak, ed.. Mapping Difference: The Many Faces of Women in Contemporary Ukraine', and Olena Hankivsky and Anastasiya Salnykova, eds.. Gender, Politics, and Society in Ukraine (Martha Kichorowska Kebalo)....227 Marian Rubchak, ed.. Mapping Difference: The Many Faces of Women in Contemporary Ukraine (Svitlana Shlipchenko) 231 Yuri Shevchuk, Beginner’s Ukrainian with Interactive Online Workbook (Iryna Konstantiuk) 233 The Essential Poetry ofBohdan Ihor Antonych: Ecstasies and Elegies, trans. Michael M. Naydan (Marko Robert Stech) 236 Yuri Andrukhovych, The Moscoviad, trans. Vitaly Chemetsky (Larysa Bobrova) 237 John C. Lehr, Community and Frontier: A Ukrainian Settlement in the Canadian Parkland (Suzanne Holyck Hunchuck) 240 Michael Mucz, Baba ’s Kitchen Medicines: Folk Remedies of Ukrainian Settlers in Western Canada (Robert B. Klymasz) 243 V Alexei Krindatch, ed., Atlas ofAmerican Orthodox Christian Churches (Frank E. Sysyn) 244 Maria Sutton, The Night Sky: A Journey From Dachau to Denver and Back (Myma Kostash) 249 Books Received 253 Contributors Martha Bohachevsky-Chomiak had a long teaching career at several American universities, notably Manhattanville College (1968-86) and George Washington University (1985-2000), before serving as the first Fulbright Ukraine Program director in Kyiv (1999-2006). She is the author of The Spring of a Nation: The Ukrainians in Eastern Galicia in 1848 (1967), Sergei N. Trubetskoi: An Intellectual among the Intelligentsia in Prerevolutionary Russia (1976), Feminists Despite Them- selves: Women in Ukrainian Community Life, 1884-1939 (1988), Duma Ukrainy - zhinochoho rodu (1993), Political Communities and Gendered Ideologies in Contem- porary Ukraine (1994), and many articles about the history of women, feminism, and the women’s movement in Ukraine. The focus of her current research is the history of the Ukrainian Catholic Church in the United States. Tobias Grill is a research associate of the Graduate School of East and Southeast European Studies of the History Seminar at Ludwigs-Maximilians University in Munich. A specialist on the modem history of East European Jewry, his publications include “Odessa’s German RabbiThe Paradigmatic Meaning of Simon Leon Schwabacher (1861-1888),” Jahrbuch des Simon-Dubnow-Instituts 2 (2003): 199- 222, “The Politicisation of Traditional Polish Jewry: Orthodox German Rabbis and the Founding of Agudas Ho-Ortodoksim and Dos yidishe vort in Gouvernement- General Warsaw, 1916-18,” East European Jewish Affairs 39, no. 2 (2009): 227-47, and Der Westen im Osten: Deutsches Judentum und jiidische Bildungsreform in Osteuropa (1783-1939) (2013). Liliana Hentosh is a senior research associate of the Institute for Historical Research at Lviv National University. She is the author of Vatykan ta vyklyky mod- ernosti: Skhidnoievropeis'ka polityka papy Benedykta XV ta ukrams'ko-pol's'kyi konflikt V Halychyni v 1914-1923 rr. (2006) and articles about Metropolitan Andrei Sheptytsky, the transformations of Lviv’s public space, and inter-denominational and inter-ethnic relations in twentieth-century Lviv. Leonid Heretz is a professor of history at Bridgewater State College, Massachus- etts. He is the author of Russia on the Eve of Modernity: Popular Religion and Traditional Culture under the Last Tsars (2008), and the translator of Mykhailo Hrushevsky’s History ofUkraine-Rus', vol. 6, Economic, Cultural, and National Life in the Fourteenth to Seventeenth Centuries (2012). Kerstin S. JOBST is the professor of societies and cultures of memory at the Uni- versity of Vienna’s Institute of East European History. She is the author of Zwischen Internationalismus und Nationalismus: Die polnische und die uki'ainische Sozialdemokratie in Galizien von 1890 bis 1914. Ein Beitrag zur