Thomas M Prymak
Biographic Data
| ID | 1435629 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Thomas M Prymak |
| GIVEN NAMES | Thomas M |
| FAMILY NAME | Prymak |
| SIGNATURE | PRYMAK T M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Toronto |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 27 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 27 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1981 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Remembering Andrew Gregorovich (1935–2022)
A Ukrainian Review, passed away in Toronto at the age of 87. He had been ill for some years, suffering from a progressive form of dementia, which slowly cut him off from his colleagues and prevented him from witnessing the tragic events of early 2022 that culminated in the horrific Russian attack and war against Ukraine. This timing of his passing was a kind of blessing, of course, as Andrew was a convinced Ukrainian patriot, who would have been …
Cold War Clash, New York City, September–October, 1960
This essay deals with one of the most iconic moments of the Cold War, in which the leader of the Soviet Union, Nikita Khrushchev, and the Prime Minister of Canada, John G. Diefenbaker, clashed at the Fifteenth General Assembly of the United Nations over the question of imperialism and colonialism. This clash of ideas and politics began with Khrushchev attacking the West, and ended with him banging on his desk, shouting, gesticulating, and waving …
A new document on Mykhailo Hrushevs'kyi, liberal democracy, and Ukrainian Freemasonry
It has long been known that the Ukrainian historian and political leader Mykhailo Hrushevs'kyi was for a time associated with Freemasonry. This paper and document describe that association and provide evidence that his type of Masonry was marked by a commitment to both liberal democracy and ethno-cultural tolerance and acceptance, particularly with regard to Jews
Orest T. Martynowych. Social Structure, Religious Institutions, and Mass Organizations
Book review of Orest T. Martynowych. Social Structure, Religious Institutions, and Mass Organizations. 2016. Ukrainians in Canada: The Interwar Years, book 1, CIUS P, 2016- . 2 books planned. xxiv, 650 pp., 46 pp. of illustrations. Tables. Notes. Appendix. Bibliography. Index. $59.95, cloth
Iaroslava Mel'nyk et al., editors. Ukraina na istoriohrafichnii mapi mizhvoiennoi Ievropy
Book review of Iaroslava Mel'nyk et al., editors. Ukraina na istoriohrafichnii mapi mizhvoiennoi Ievropy: Materialy mizhnarodnoi naukovoi konferentsii (Miunkhen, Nimechchyna, 1-3 lypnia 2012 r.) [Ukraine on the Historiographic Map of Interwar Europe: Proceedings of the International Conference (Munich, Germany, 1-3 July, 2012)].Instytut Istorii Ukrainy NAN Ukrainy, 2014. Distributed by CIUS P. 252 pp. $22.95, paper
Andreas Kappeler. Die Kosaken
Andreas Kappeler . Die Kosaken: Geschichte und Legenden . Munich: Verlag C. H. Beck, 2013. 127 pp. 20 illustrations. 2 maps. Index. Paper
Serhii Plokhy. The Cossack Myth
Serhii Plokhy. The Cossack Myth: History and Nationhood in the Age of Empires . Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012. viii, 386 pp. Illustrations. Maps. $100.95, cloth
Gathering a Heritage
Thomas M. Prymak uses the essays and articles he has written over the past thirty years as a historian of Ukrainian and Ukrainian Canadian history to reflect on the evolution of ethnic studies in Canada and the United States.
The Cossack Hetman
Notes1. For the general background, see Orest Subtelny, Ukraine: A History, fourth ed., Toronto: Taylor & Francis, 2009, 160ff., and Paul Robert Magocsi, A History of Ukraine: The Land and Its Peoples, second ed., Toronto: Taylor & Francis, 2010, 258–263. For synthetic treatments of Mazepa in English, see Clarence A. Manning, Hetman of Ukraine: Ivan Mazeppa, New York: Taylor & Francis, 1957, which is a somewhat romanticized account, and more brie…
A Painter from Ukraine
This article presents the life and work of the pre-eminent painter of the late nineteenth and early twentieth-century Russian Empire, Ilya Repin, and analyzes his manifold connections with the land of his birth, Ukraine. Although Repin came to be known as the central figure of the Russian national school of art, he maintained close links to his Ukrainian homeland, always had close Ukrainian friends and colleagues, and repeatedly turned to Ukraini…
Romantic Nationalism in Eastern Europe
Voltaire on Mazepa and Early Eighteenth-Century Ukraine
This study offers a comparison of Voltaire’s treatments of Ivan Mazepa and his Ukrainian Cossack homeland in two of his best known historical works: his History of Charles XII, King of Sweden and his History of the Russian Empire under Peter the Great. It also discusses Voltaire's use of written and oral sources and his historical method in general. Voltaire's attitude towards the Ukrainian rebel Hetman or ruler, Mazepa, and Ukrainian independenc…
Rembrandt’s "Polish Rider" in Its East European Context
Research Article| October 01 2011 REMBRANDT’S "POLISH RIDER" IN ITS EAST EUROPEAN CONTEXT THOMAS M. PRYMAK THOMAS M. PRYMAK Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google The Polish Review (2011) 56 (3): 159–186. https://doi.org/10.2307/41550431 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation THOMAS M. PRYMAK; REMBRANDT’S "POLISH RIDER" IN ITS EAST EUROPEAN CONTEXT. The Polish Review 1…
Inveterate Voyager
This paper deals with J.B. Rudnyckyj (1910–1995), a leading Ukrainian émigré scholar of the Cold War period, and his manifold contributions to library science in Canada and the West in general. Although he was a philologist and lexicographer by training and profession, Rudnyckyj took a keen interest in all Ukrainian books and libraries to which he had access during this period. From his very immigration to Canada in 1949, he traveled extensively …
Bohdan Budurowycz (1921–2007)
Mykola Kostomarov
Mykola Kostomarov and East Slavic Ethnography in the Nineteenth Century
Maple Leaf and Trident
Briefly Noted
Briefly Noted
Hrushevsky's Constitutional Project of 1905∗
Mykhailo Hrushevsky (1866–1934) was one of the most important Ukrainian public figures of modern times. In the realm of scholarship, he was the greatest of Ukrainian historians whose ten-volume History of Ukraine-Rus' charted the saga of the Ukrainian people from antiquity to modern times. He was a prolific writer and essayist whose personal bibliography lists over 2,000 titles. He was also the principal organizer of an unofficial Ukrainian Acade…
Mykhailo Hrushevsky Pol National
Claimed by both Ukraine and Russia as a major historian, Kostomarov’s biography provides insight into the complex question of inter-ethnic and international relations in Eastern Europe and in the former Russian and Soviet empires.
Briefly Noted
Ivan Franko and Mass Ukrainian Emigration to Canada
(1984). Ivan Franko and Mass Ukrainian Emigration to Canada. Canadian Slavonic Papers: Vol. 26, No. 4, pp. 307-317
Briefly Noted
Mykola Kostomarov and East Slavic Ethnography in the Nineteenth Century
Hrushevsky's Constitutional Project of 1905∗
Mykhailo Hrushevsky (1866–1934) was one of the most important Ukrainian public figures of modern times. In the realm of scholarship, he was the greatest of Ukrainian historians whose ten-volume History of Ukraine-Rus' charted the saga of the Ukrainian people from antiquity to modern times. He was a prolific writer and essayist whose personal bibliography lists over 2,000 titles. He was also the principal organizer of an unofficial Ukrainian Acade…
Ivan Franko and Mass Ukrainian Emigration to Canada
(1984). Ivan Franko and Mass Ukrainian Emigration to Canada. Canadian Slavonic Papers: Vol. 26, No. 4, pp. 307-317
Briefly Noted
Briefly Noted
Briefly Noted
Ivan Franko and Mass Ukrainian Emigration to Canada
(1984). Ivan Franko and Mass Ukrainian Emigration to Canada. Canadian Slavonic Papers: Vol. 26, No. 4, pp. 307-317
Mykhailo Hrushevsky Pol National
Claimed by both Ukraine and Russia as a major historian, Kostomarov’s biography provides insight into the complex question of inter-ethnic and international relations in Eastern Europe and in the former Russian and Soviet empires.
Briefly Noted
Hrushevsky's Constitutional Project of 1905∗
Mykhailo Hrushevsky (1866–1934) was one of the most important Ukrainian public figures of modern times. In the realm of scholarship, he was the greatest of Ukrainian historians whose ten-volume History of Ukraine-Rus' charted the saga of the Ukrainian people from antiquity to modern times. He was a prolific writer and essayist whose personal bibliography lists over 2,000 titles. He was also the principal organizer of an unofficial Ukrainian Acade…
Briefly Noted
Maple Leaf and Trident
Briefly Noted
Mykola Kostomarov and East Slavic Ethnography in the Nineteenth Century
Mykola Kostomarov
Bohdan Budurowycz (1921–2007)
Inveterate Voyager
This paper deals with J.B. Rudnyckyj (1910–1995), a leading Ukrainian émigré scholar of the Cold War period, and his manifold contributions to library science in Canada and the West in general. Although he was a philologist and lexicographer by training and profession, Rudnyckyj took a keen interest in all Ukrainian books and libraries to which he had access during this period. From his very immigration to Canada in 1949, he traveled extensively …
Rembrandt’s "Polish Rider" in Its East European Context
Research Article| October 01 2011 REMBRANDT’S "POLISH RIDER" IN ITS EAST EUROPEAN CONTEXT THOMAS M. PRYMAK THOMAS M. PRYMAK Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google The Polish Review (2011) 56 (3): 159–186. https://doi.org/10.2307/41550431 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation THOMAS M. PRYMAK; REMBRANDT’S "POLISH RIDER" IN ITS EAST EUROPEAN CONTEXT. The Polish Review 1…
Voltaire on Mazepa and Early Eighteenth-Century Ukraine
This study offers a comparison of Voltaire’s treatments of Ivan Mazepa and his Ukrainian Cossack homeland in two of his best known historical works: his History of Charles XII, King of Sweden and his History of the Russian Empire under Peter the Great. It also discusses Voltaire's use of written and oral sources and his historical method in general. Voltaire's attitude towards the Ukrainian rebel Hetman or ruler, Mazepa, and Ukrainian independenc…
A Painter from Ukraine
This article presents the life and work of the pre-eminent painter of the late nineteenth and early twentieth-century Russian Empire, Ilya Repin, and analyzes his manifold connections with the land of his birth, Ukraine. Although Repin came to be known as the central figure of the Russian national school of art, he maintained close links to his Ukrainian homeland, always had close Ukrainian friends and colleagues, and repeatedly turned to Ukraini…
Romantic Nationalism in Eastern Europe
Gathering a Heritage
Thomas M. Prymak uses the essays and articles he has written over the past thirty years as a historian of Ukrainian and Ukrainian Canadian history to reflect on the evolution of ethnic studies in Canada and the United States.
The Cossack Hetman
Notes1. For the general background, see Orest Subtelny, Ukraine: A History, fourth ed., Toronto: Taylor & Francis, 2009, 160ff., and Paul Robert Magocsi, A History of Ukraine: The Land and Its Peoples, second ed., Toronto: Taylor & Francis, 2010, 258–263. For synthetic treatments of Mazepa in English, see Clarence A. Manning, Hetman of Ukraine: Ivan Mazeppa, New York: Taylor & Francis, 1957, which is a somewhat romanticized account, and more brie…
Serhii Plokhy. The Cossack Myth
Serhii Plokhy. The Cossack Myth: History and Nationhood in the Age of Empires . Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012. viii, 386 pp. Illustrations. Maps. $100.95, cloth
Andreas Kappeler. Die Kosaken
Andreas Kappeler . Die Kosaken: Geschichte und Legenden . Munich: Verlag C. H. Beck, 2013. 127 pp. 20 illustrations. 2 maps. Index. Paper
Iaroslava Mel'nyk et al., editors. Ukraina na istoriohrafichnii mapi mizhvoiennoi Ievropy
Book review of Iaroslava Mel'nyk et al., editors. Ukraina na istoriohrafichnii mapi mizhvoiennoi Ievropy: Materialy mizhnarodnoi naukovoi konferentsii (Miunkhen, Nimechchyna, 1-3 lypnia 2012 r.) [Ukraine on the Historiographic Map of Interwar Europe: Proceedings of the International Conference (Munich, Germany, 1-3 July, 2012)].Instytut Istorii Ukrainy NAN Ukrainy, 2014. Distributed by CIUS P. 252 pp. $22.95, paper
Orest T. Martynowych. Social Structure, Religious Institutions, and Mass Organizations
Book review of Orest T. Martynowych. Social Structure, Religious Institutions, and Mass Organizations. 2016. Ukrainians in Canada: The Interwar Years, book 1, CIUS P, 2016- . 2 books planned. xxiv, 650 pp., 46 pp. of illustrations. Tables. Notes. Appendix. Bibliography. Index. $59.95, cloth
A new document on Mykhailo Hrushevs'kyi, liberal democracy, and Ukrainian Freemasonry
It has long been known that the Ukrainian historian and political leader Mykhailo Hrushevs'kyi was for a time associated with Freemasonry. This paper and document describe that association and provide evidence that his type of Masonry was marked by a commitment to both liberal democracy and ethno-cultural tolerance and acceptance, particularly with regard to Jews
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