Bohdan Bociurkiw Memorial Lecture

Ministers of Righteousness?

Greek Catholic Clergymen and Poles and Jews during World War II

Speaker: Marco Carynnyk

Born of Ukrainian parents in Germany, Marco Carynnyk has a BA in English literature from Temple University and works as a writer, editor, translator, and historical researcher. As a writer he has published poetry, articles, and essays on literature, film, and twentieth-century history and politics. His historical studies are concerned with the famine of 1933 in Ukraine, Soviet and Nazi repressions in the 1930s and 1940s, and Jewish-Ukrainian relations.

As an editor and translator, Carynnyk has published translations of the filmmaker Alexander Dovzhenko and has lectured on Dovzhenko at the Venice Biennale, Harvard University, and the Dovzhenko Studio in Kyiv. Other major translations by Carynnyk include fiction, poetry, and Soviet dissident memoirs.

He is currently working on a book entitled Furious Angels: Ukrainians, Jews, and Poles in the Summer of 1941. His Bohdan Bociurkiw Memorial Lecture is an offshoot from this project and has been researched on the basis of internal documents of the Greek Catholic church held in archives in Lviv and Przemyśl.

3:30 p.m. Thursday, December 6, 2012

Business Bldg. 1-6, University of Alberta

Sponsored by

The Research Program on Religion and Culture
Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies
University of Alberta
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