JOURNAL OF UKRAINIAN STUDIES Winter 2003 CONTRIBUTORS GUEST EDITOR Andrij Makuch Andrij Makuch Orest T. Martynowych Andriy Nahachewsky Uliana (Elaine) Holowach-Amiot Myroslaw Tataryn Myron Momryk Lisa Grekul Digitized by the Internet Archive In 2016 httos://archive.org/details/journalofukraini282cana JOURNAL OF UKRAINIAN STUDIES Volume 28, Number 2 Winter 2003 CONTRIBUTORS GUEST EDITOR Andrij Makuch Andrij Makuch Orest T. Martynowych Andriy Nahachewsky Uliana (Elaine) Holowach-Amiot Myroslaw Tataryn Myron Momryk Lisa Grekul Editor Taras Zakydalsky Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies Editorial Board James Jacuta, Zenon E. Kohut, Andrij Makuch, David R. Marples, Marusia K. Petryshyn, Serhii Plokhy, Roman Senkus, Frank E. 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All correspondence, submissions, and books for review should be sent to the Journal of Ukrainian Studies, CIUS Toronto Office, | Spadina Crescent, Room 109, University of Toronto, Toronto ON, M5S 2J5, Canada; telephone: (416) 769-0662 or 978-8669; fax: (416) 978-2672; e-mail: zakydalsky @sympatico.ca For additional guidelines, see the last page of this issue. Copyright © Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies, 2004. Printed in Canada. ISSN 0228-1635 VOLUME 28, NUMBER 2 WINTER 2003 SPECIAL ISSUE Ukrainians in Canada between the Great War and the Cold War Contents Andrij Makuch Introduction / vii Orest T. Martynowych “All That Jazz!’ The Avramenko Phenomenon in Canada, 1925-1929 / 1 Andriy Nahachewsky Avramenko and the Paradigm of National Culture / 31 Uliana (Elaine) Holowach-Amiot The Canadian Ukrainian Youth Association: Its Origins and Early Years / 51 Myroslaw Tataryn Father Nicholas Shumsky and the Struggle for a Ukrainian Catholic Identity / 69 Myron Momryk The Royal Canadian Mounted Police and the Surveillance of the Ukrainian Community in Canada / 89 Lisa Grekul (Re)reading the Female Ethnic Subject: Vera Lysenko’s Yellow Boots / 113 Book Reviews Lidia Lykhach and Mykola Kornienko, Ukrainian Folk Icons from the Land of Shevchenko; Teodoziia Zarivna and Olha Loza, eds., Ukrainian Antiquities in Private Collections: Folk Art of the Hutsul and Pokuttia Regions: Catalogue— Icons on Glass, Tiles, Plates, Crosses, Candelabra; Franklin A. Sciacca and William H. Noll, eds., Ukrainian Icons 13th—18th Centuries from Private Collec- tions (John-Paul Himka) / 129 Bohdan S. Kordan, Canada and the Ukrainian Question 1939-45: A Study in State- craft (Thomas M. Prymak) / 132 Bohdan S. Kordan, Enemy Aliens, Prisoners of War: Internment in Canada during the Great War; Bohdan S. Kordan and Craig Mahovsky, A Bare and Impolitic Right: Internment and Ukrainian-Canadian Redress (Peter J. Melnycky) / 134 Lubomyr Y. Luciuk, Searching for Place: Ukrainian Displaced Persons, Canada and the Migration of Memory (Andrij Makuch) / 137 Alena Moravkova, Déti stepni Hellady: Prazska skola ukrajinskych emigrantskych basniku (L’ ubica Babotova) / 139 Iurii Mytsyk, comp., Ukrainskyi holokost, 1932-1933: Svidchennia tykh, khto vyzhyv (Ettore Cinnella) / 141 Vic Satzewich, The Ukrainian Diaspora (Natalia Shostak) / 142 Sonia Mycak, ed., !’m Ukrainian, mate!: New Australian Generation of Poets (Lisa Grekul) / 144 Stepan Kacharaba, Emihratsiia z Zakhidnoi Ukrainy (1919-1939) (Serge Cipko) / 146 George Dzul, Crossing Years (Orest Zakydalsky) / 147 Books Received / 149 Contributors LISA GREKUL is an assistant professor in the Department of English at the University of British Columbia. She specializes in literature by Canadian ethnic minority writers and is the author of a novel, Kalyna’s Song (Coteau, 2003). She is working on a book about Canadian authors of central and east European descent who write about traveling back to their ancestral homelands. ULIANA (ELAINE) HOLOWACH-AMIOT is a freelance researcher presently residing in Calgary. She has a Master’s degree in Canadian History from McGill University and was previously associated with the McCord Museum in Montreal. ANDRIJ MAKUCH is the research co-ordinator of the Ukrainian Canadian Programme of the Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies. He has conducted research for the purpose of restoration and interpretation at the Ukrainian Cultural Heritage Village near Edmonton and lectured on the Ukrainian experience in Canada at the University of Saskatchewan. He is the author of a study of the Hlus' Ukrainian Catholic Church in rural Alberta (1989) and compiler of Encyclopedia of Ukraine: Index and Errata (CIUS Press, 2001). OREST MARTYNOWYCH is a specialist on Ukrainian-Canadian history and the author of Ukrainians in Canada: The Formative Period, 1591-1924 (CIUS Press, 1991). He is working on a history of Ukrainians in Canada during the interwar era and has completed the manuscript Avramenko: The Rise and Fall of a Legendary Ukrainian Showman. MYRON Momryk is an archivist/historian working at Library and Archives Canada in Ottawa. He has published articles in various journals and participated in conferences on Ukrainian Canadian and Canadian history. ANDRIY NAHACHEWSKY is the director of the Ukrainian Folklore Centre at the University of Alberta, associate professor, and the holder of the Huculak Chair of Ukrainian Culture and Ethnography. He heads the project “Local Culture and Diversity on the Prairies,” which is compiling an archive of interviews with people who remember Canadian vernacular culture prior to 1939. MYROSLAW TATARYN is a professor of religious studies and the chair of the Department of Religious Studies and Anthropology at St. Thomas More College, University of Saskatchewan. He is the author of Augustine and Russian Orthodoxy. Russian Orthodox Theologians and Augustine of Hippo: A Twentieth Century Dialogue (International Scholars Publications, 2000) and many articles on both Eastern Christian theology and the history and experience of Ukrainian Christianity, and a co-editor of Windows to the East: Eastern Christians in a Dialogue of Charity (Novalis, 2001). Journal of Ukrainian Studies 28, no. 2 (Winter 2003) Introduction Most of the articles in this special Ukrainian-Canadian-theme issue of the Journal of Ukrainian Studies were first presented at the conference titled ‘A Rock and a Hard Place: Ukrainians in Canada from the Great War to the Cold War” in Edmonton on 11-13 April 2002. Organized by the CIUS’s Ukrainian Canadian Programme, this gathering brought together a substantial number of the country’s Ukrainian Canadianists, along with a few from further reaches. In the wake of what turned out to be a string of interesting and stimulating sessions, conference organizer Jars Balan and I decided that it would be worthwhile to publish at least part of the proceedings of that event. Hence the call for papers for this special issue. Our end product is this modest, but vital, addition to the scholarly literature about Ukrainians in Canada. It is something of a truism that a significant amount of the available scholarly work on Ukrainians in Canada has been stimulated by academic conferences or symposia, and this collection is no exception. The focus of the conference and most of this issue is the interwar period in Ukrainian Canadian life. In her introduction to an earlier Ukrainian-Canadian-theme issue of the Journal of Ukrainian Studies (vol. 16, nos. 1-2 [Summer—Winter 1991]), Frances Swyripa noted that this era “has been curiously ignored” in contrast to the pioneer era. That issue sought to rectify the problem somewhat by focusing on interwar topics. Since then some important work has been done on the interwar years, but even a dozen years later the collection edited by Dr. Swyripa remains the best single source on Ukrainian life in that period. For this reason, Orest Martynowych’s follow-up volume to his Ukrainians in Canada: The For- mative Period, 1891-1924, which will bring the Ukrainian-Canadian story up to 1947, is most welcome and much needed. The articles in this issue reflect a range of topics and approaches. Two of them deal with the Ukrainian “ballet master” Vasile Avramenko, who was instrumental in popularizing Ukrainian dance in North America. Vill Introduction Orest Martynowych looks at Avramenko’s early Canadian period, which witnessed some of his greatest achievements. At the same time, some of Avramenko’s problematic character traits that were to cause him and others grief had started to show themselves. The study provides us with a revealing portrait of the man and a look at the events that established the myth. Andriy Nahachewsky examines Avramenko from the perspective of understanding his approach to Ukrainian dance in both a contemporary and historical context. From his analysis we gain useful insight into the role Avramenko saw for staged Ukrainian dance and the manner in which the base established by him for Ukrainian dance in North America has been supplanted. Uliana Holowach-Amiot’s study of the Canadian Ukrainian Youth Association (SUMK/CYMK) provides us with a useful look at the group’s early years of development. Moreover, it contributes to our overall knowledge regarding ethnic youth involvement in Canada. Myroslaw Tataryn’s article on Rev. Nicholas Shumsky brings to light the fascinating story of a controversial Ukrainian Catholic clergyman. In it the author demonstrates how Shumsky grappled with some of the issues vexing the Ukrainian Canadian community of his day. Myron Momryk examines the surveillance of the Ukrainian commun- ity by the state security apparatus until the 1960s. The fact that this happened is well known, but the details of how this was carried out have long been hidden from view. Finally, Lisa Grekul gives us the goods on Vera Lysenko’s Yellow Boots. In the process, she takes issue with a number of assumptions that have been made in recent (re)interpretations of this groundbreaking novel. As guest editor, I have the pleasure of thanking our contributors for their valiant efforts. We are all better off for them. Andrij Makuch