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[Robert De Lossa <radelo@earthlink.net>]

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>Date: Thu, 22 Nov 2001 19:30:11 -0500
>To: Societe Scientifique Sevcenko <ntsh10@fr.inter.net>
>From: Roman Senkus <r.senkus@utoronto.ca>
>Subject: George Stephen Nestor Luckyj, 1918-2001. R.I.P.
>Status:  
>
>George Luckyj, my former professor and a dear mentor, colleague, and
>friend, died this morning in hospital after a prolonged illness. He was a
>pioneering figure in postwar Ukrainian and Slavic studies in the Western
>world, particularly in Canada, where he played a major role in the
>establishment and early years of the Canadian Association of Slavists and
>the Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies. I will miss him.
>
>I extend my sincere condolences to his wife and closest collaborator Moira,
>their three daughters, and other family members. Vichna iomu pamiat'!
>
>Prof. Luckyj's funeral will be a private, non-religious affair.
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>
>>From the _Encyclopedia of Ukraine_, vol. 3 (1984) [revised]:
>
>Luckyj, George Stephen Nestor, b 11 June 1919 in Yanchyn, Peremyshliany
>county, Galicia, d 22 November 2001 in Toronto. Literary scholar; full
>member of the Shevchenko Scientific Society and the Ukrainian Academy of
>Arts and Sciences. The son of Ostap Lutsky, a Western Ukrainian modernist
>poet and co-operative leader and member of the Polish Sejm and Senate, he
>was educated at the universities of Berlin, Cambridge, and Birmingham and
>at Columbia University (Ph.D, 1953). He taught at the University of
>Saskatchewan (1947-9) and the University of Toronto (1952-84), where he
>occupied the position of chairman of the Department of Slavic Languages and
>Literatures (1957-61). He was an associate director of the Canadian
>Institute of Ukrainian Studies (1976-82) in charge of its Toronto office,
>and the first editor of _Canadian Slavonic Papers_ (1956-61). He was also
>one of the editors of the two-volume _Ukraine: A Concise Encyclopaedia_
>(1963, 1970) and the English-language editor of the first volume of the
>_Encyclopedia of Ukraine_ (1984).
>
>Most of Luckyj's studies were devoted to Ukrainian and Soviet literature.
>He has edited and introduced a number of volumes, including a documentary
>study of the 1920s Ukrainian writers' group Vaplite (1957), _Four Ukrainian
>Poets_ (1969), _Modern Ukrainian Short Stories_ (1973), _Discordant Voices:
>The Non-Russian Soviet Literatures_ (1975), _Shevchenko and the Critics_
>(1980), and _Sami pro sebe: Avtobiohrafii vydatnykh ukraintsiv XIX-ho
>stolittia_1989). He is the author of the monographs _Literary Politics in
>the Soviet Ukraine, 1917-1934 (1956; 2d ed. 1990), _Between Gogol' and
>Ševcenko: Polarity in the Literary Ukraine, 1798-1847_(1971), _Panteleimon
>Kulish: A Sketch of His Life and Times_ (1983), _Young Ukraine: The
>Brotherhood of Saints Cyril and Methodius, 1845-1847_ (1991), _Lystuvannia
>z Ievhenom Sverstiukom_ 1992), and _Ukrainian Literature in the Twentieth
>Century: A Readers' Guide_ (1992). A prolific translator, he translated
>(often in co-operation with his wife, Moira) into English works by Ivan
>Bahriany, Mykola Khvylovy, and Valeriian Pidmohylny as well as Pavlo
>Zaitsev's classic biography of T. Shevchenko (1988). A Festschrift in his
>honor, In Working Order: Essays Presented to G. S. N. Luckyj, was published
>as a volume of the _Journal of Ukrainian Studies (1989).
>
>D. H. Struk
>****************************************************
>
>Prof. Luckyj's Select Bibliography
>
>Bahrianyi, Ivan. The hunters and the hunted, by Ivan Bahriany. [Tr. by
>George S.N. Luckyj] Toronto, Burns [&]   MacEachern, 1954.
>
>Before the storm : Soviet Ukrainian fiction of the 1920s / edited by George
>Luckyj ; translated by Yuri Tkacz. -- Ann   Arbor : Ardis, c1986.   266 p.
>
>Discordant voices : the non-Russian Soviet literatures, 1953-1973 /
>Oakville, Ont. : Mosaic Press, c1975.   viii, 149  p.
>
>A history of Ukrainian literature : from the 11th to the end of the 19th
>century / Dmytro
>   Cyzev'kyj ; translated by Dolly Ferguson, Doreen Gorsline, and Ulana Petyk
>; with An overview
>of the twentieth century / George S.N. Luckyj.  New York : Ukrainian
>Academic Press, 1997.
>   2nd ed. / edited and with a foreword by George S.N. Luckyj.
>
>In working order : essays presented to G.S.N. Luckyj / edited by E.N.
>Burstynsky and R. Lindheim.  Edmonton : Canadian Institute of Ukrainian
>Studies Press, c1990.   xii, 275 p.
>
>Khvylovyi, Mykola, 1893-1933 Stories from the Ukraine. Translated with an
>introd. by George S.N. Luckyj. New York, Philosophical Library [1960]   234
>p.
>
>Kulish, Panteleimon Oleksandrovych, 1819-1897. The Black council [by]
>Panteleimon Kulish. Abridged and translated from Ukrainian by George S.N.
>and Moira Luckyj. With introd. by Romana Bahrij Pikulyk. [Littleton, Colo.]
>Ukrainian Academic Press 1973   125p.
>
>Kulish, Panteleimon Oleksandrovych, 1819-1897. Vybrani lysty Panteleimona
>Kulisha ukraďns'koiu movoiu pysani /  redaktsiia IUriia Luts'koho ;
>peredmova IUriia Shevel'ova. -- N'iu-Iork ; Toronto: Ukr. vil'na akademiia
>nauk u SShA,1984.   326 p.
>
>Lehkosynia dal'. N'iu Iork Prolog 1963   149p.
>
>Liubchenko, Arkadii. Shchodennyk Arkadiia Liubchenka / [uporiadnyk IUrii
>Luts'kyi]. L'viv ; N'iu-Iork : Vyd-vo M.P. Kots', 1999.   383 p.
>
>Luckyj, George Stephen Nestor, 1919- The anguish of Mykola Hohol a.k.a.
>Nikolai Gogol / George Luckyj. Toronto : Canadian Scholars' Press, 1998.
>
>Luckyj, George Stephen Nestor, 1919- The battle for literature in the
>Soviet Ukraine; a documentary study of Vaplite,1925-1928. [The Hague
>Mouton] [n.d.]   227-246p.
>
>Luckyj, George Stephen Nestor, 1919- Between Gogol' and Ševcenko; polarity
>in the literary Ukraine: 1798-1847. München [Published for the Centre for
>Russian and East European Studies, University of Toronto by] W. FinkVerlag
>[c1971]   211p.
>
>Luckyj, George Stephen Nestor, 1919- Literary politics in the Soviet
>Ukraine, 1917-1934. -- Freeport, N.Y., Books for  Libraries Press [1971,
>c1956]
>
>Luckyj, George Stephen Nestor, 1919- Literary politics in the Soviet
>Ukraine, 1917-1934 / George S.N. Luckyj. --  Durham : Duke University
>Press, 1990. . Rev. and updated ed. --   xv, 351 p. ;
>
>Luckyj, George Stephen Nestor, 1919- Keeping a record : literary purges in
>Soviet Ukraine (1930s), a bio-bibliography / George S.N. Luckyj. Edmonton,
>Alta. : Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies,  University of Alberta in
>association with Ukrainian Famine Research Centre, Toronto, Ont., 1987.
>xli, 50 p.
>
>Luckyj, George Stephen Nestor, 1919- Lystuvannia z IEvhenom Sverstiukom /
>IUrii Luts'kyi. -- Baltymor : Ukr. vyd-vo "Smoloskyp" im. V. Symonenka,
>1992.   89 p.
>
>Luckyj, George Stephen Nestor, 1919- A modern Ukrainian grammar / by George
>Luckyj and Jaroslav B. Rudnyckyj. -- Minneapolis : University of Minnesota
>Press, 1949.   iv, 186 p.
>
>Luckyj, George Stephen Nestor, 1919- A modern Ukrainian grammar / by George
>Luckyj and Jaroslav B. Rudnyckyj. Winnipeg, Man. : Ukrainian Free Academy
>of Sciences, [1961]   186p.
>
>Luckyj, George Stephen Nestor, 1919- Na perekhresti / IUrii Luts'kyi ;
>[vidp. red. Mykola Riabchuk] Luts'k : Initsial,1999.   159 p. : ill.,
>ports.  Memoirs, vol. 1.
>
>Luckyj, George Stephen Nestor, 1919- Na storozhi : druha chastyna spomyniv
>IUriia Lutskoho / [redaktor, Mykola Riabchuk] Kyďv : Krytyka, 2000.   111 p.
>
>Luckyj, George Stephen Nestor, 1919-, Ostap Luts'kyi - molodomuzets'. N'iu
>Iork Slovo 1968   69p.
>
>Luckyj, George Stephen Nestor, 1919- Panteleimon Kulish : a sketch of his
>life and times / George Luckyj. --Boulder : East European Monographs ; New
>York : Distributed by Columbia University Press, 1983.   viii, 229 p.
>
>Luckyj, George Stephen Nestor, 1919- Shevchenko's unforgotten journey /
>George Luckyj. Toronto : Canadian Scholars' Press, 1996.
>
>Luckyj, George Stephen Nestor, 1919- Ukrainian literature in the twentieth
>century : a reader's guide / George S.N. Luckyj. -- Toronto : Published for
>the Shevchenko Scientific Society by University of Toronto Press, 1992.
>viii, 136 p.
>
>Luckyj, George Stephen Nestor, 1919- Young Ukraine : the Brotherhood of
>Saints Cyril and Methodius in Kiev,1845-1847 / George S.N. Luckyj. --
>Ottawa : University of Ottawa Press, c1991.   119 p.
>
>Luts'kyi, Ostap, 1883-1941. Ostap Luts'kyi i suchasnyky : lysty do O.
>Kobylians'koď i I. Franka ta inshi zabuti storinky / pid redaktsiieiu
>IUriia Luts'koho. N'iu-Iork : Ukraďns'koď vil'noď akademiď nauk u SShA,
>1994.   206 p.
>
>Modern Ukrainian short stories / edited, with a preface by George S.N.
>Luckyj. Englewood, Colo. : Ukrainian Academic Press, 1995. . Rev. 1st ed.
>230 p.
>
>Modern Ukrainian short stories. Edited with a pref. by George S.N. Luckyj.
>-- [Littleton, Colo.] Ukrainian Academic Press, 1973. . Parallel text ed.
>--   228 p.
>
>Ostap Luts'kyi - molodomuzets'. N'iu Iork Slovo 1968   69p.
>                   
>Shevchenko and the critics, 1861-1980 / edited by George S.N. Luckyj ;
>translations by Dolly Ferguson and Sophia Yurkevich ; introduction by
>Bohdan Rubchak. -- Toronto ; Buffalo : published in association with the
>Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies by University of Toronto Press,
>c1980.   xi, 522 p
>
>Towards an intellectual history of Ukraine : an anthology of Ukrainian
>thought from 1710 to 1995 / edited by Ralph Lindheim and George S.N.
>Luckyj. Toronto : Published by the University of Toronto Press in
>association with the Shevchenko Scientific Society, c1996.   xi, 420 p.
>
>Tysiacha tsytat z ukraďns'koho pys'menstva : zbirnyk / uporiadnyk IUrii
>Luts'kyi.
>   Kyďv : Vyd-vo "Smoloskyp", 1996. 229 p. :
>
>Vaplitians'kyi zbirnyk : z nahody p'iatdesiatrichchia VAPLITE. Vyd. 2, dop.
>/ pid. red. IUriia Luts'koho. Oakville, Ont. : Vyd-vo Mozaika : Vyd.
>Kanads'koho in-tu ukr. studii, 1977. 260 p.,
>
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