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Luka Lutsiv papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 154

Staff Only

Scope and Contents

This collection primarily consists of correspondence with individuals and organizations, as well as various writings by Lutsiv, including articles on literature and famous Ukrainian cultural figures, reviews, memoir, and poetry. The collection also contains personal documents of Luka and Oleksandra Lutsiv, photographs, materials of the Central Committee of Drohobych region, and writings by others.

Dates

  • Creation: 1920 - 1985

Creator

Biographical / Historical

Luka Lutsiv was a Ukrainian literary scholar, critic, educator, and a full member of the Shevchenko Scientific Society. He was born in the village of Hrushiv, today Drohobych raion, L'viv oblast, Ukraine in 1895 and died in 1984 in Philadelphia. He studied in Prague at the Ukrainian Free University (1921-1926) and at the Charles University with a Ph.D. dissertation on Taras Shevchenko (1926). From 1927 to 1944 he worked as a teacher in Galicia. As a postwar refugee he taught in displaced persons camps in Bavaria before settling in New York City in 1949. From 1952 to 1970 he worked as an editor for the daily newspaper Svoboda. He published literary articles and hundreds of book reviews in Galician and émigré periodicals and scholarly serials and wrote books on the writers M. Shashkevych (1963), O. Kobylians’ka (1963), T. Shevchenko (1964), I. Franko (1967), and V. Stefanyk (1971). He also edited two books of articles on Drohobych region (1973, 1978). A selection of his articles and reviews from 1925 with a bibliography and autobiography appeared in 1982 as Literatura i Zhyttia (Literature and Life).

Conditions Governing Access

The collection is open for research use. Please contact the Shevchenko Scientific Society Archives.

Conditions Governing Use

Single photocopies may be made for research purposes. Researchers may take photographs of archival items using hand-held cameras or smart phones without flash subject to restrictions. The responsibility to secure permissions from all relevant copyright owners rests with the patron. Please visit the main shevchenko.org website to view the full archives use policy.

Full Extent

2.5 Linear Feet

Language of Materials

Ukrainian

Latin

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