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The paper is evenly yellowed, and the edges of the text block are uneven; there are tears and small losses of paper along the edges of the title page and the first few leaves, a tear with loss of text on the table of contents page, and occasional spots on the margins. The text block is tight, and the leaves are not loose. Condition: good.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eLifetime edition. The book has historical and cultural value and is of collector’s interest, while the binding is of independent artistic interest.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eINFORMATION\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe prayer book was compiled for people torn from their homes: this is stated in the title itself—“in their native land and abroad”—and the introductory word “Know and Remember” begins with the world war and asks the reader whether they too are on death’s list. The contents include daily prayers, preparation for Holy Communion, Sunday troparia, kontakia, prosomoia, and the communion prayers of all eight tones, akathists to Jesus Christ, the Annunciation to the Blessed Virgin Mary, and Saint Nicholas, church hymns—Christmas, Great Lent, Easter, and funeral hymns, the Catholic and Ukrainian anthems, the Paschalia with a table, and a calendar for the entire year. The engravings are carefully selected to match the theme: Tobi asks his parents for a blessing to travel to a distant land, and Archangel Raphael becomes his guide.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe printing permission was signed on March 6, 1944, by Metropolitan Andrey Sheptytskyi (1865–1944)—four months before the return of Soviet power to Lviv and eight months before his own death. The prayer book was compiled by Hegumen Klementiy Sheptytskyi (1869–1951), the Metropolitan’s brother and archimandrite of the Studite monks; the book was printed by the Studite monastery “Studion” in Lviv at its own expense. The Ukrainian Publishing House, with branches in Kraków and Lviv, was the main legal Ukrainian publisher during the German occupation and published everything from school textbooks to liturgical books.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003ePrinted on cheap wartime paper, so copies are usually brittle and incomplete. 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The value of the book lies not in its knowledge about Masonry, but in what it documents: what ideas were circulating among Ukrainian communities in South America in the early 1960s.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eVolodymyr Kovalik (1910–1993) — a Greek Catholic Basilian priest originally from Zolochiv. Graduated from the Gregorian University in Rome, Doctor of Theology (1947); taught at the seminary in Christinopolis. From 1948 — proto-abbot in Buenos Aires, in 1953–1955 — general procurator of the Order of Saint Basil the Great in Rome and at the same time head of the Ukrainian department of Vatican Radio. Later, for many years a parish priest in Apostoles, pastor in New York and Berisso; in 1991 returned to Ukraine. 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The 1991 Lublin edition is a reprint made at the author’s expense by the Futura Publishing House; it was published in the year Ukraine declared independence, shortly after the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church emerged from the underground, and became one of the first channels through which this work reached readers in Ukraine.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"archivevam","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":64589810532723,"sku":"SKU-00191","price":1250.0,"currency_code":"UAH","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0943\/7885\/2723\/files\/pr-15528936997235.jpg?v=1793988345"},{"product_id":"shlemkevych-mykola-zahublena-ukrainska-liudyna-1954","title":"Shlemkevych Mykola. The Lost Ukrainian. New York, 1954","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e“Bare and unadorned stands our soul on the steps built from the clothing of thought and life that has already slipped from its shoulders.”\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMykola Shlemkevych. 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Condition: good.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLifetime edition. The book has historical and cultural value and is of collector’s interest.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eINFORMATION\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe book grew out of a series of lectures delivered in the fall of 1952 and the spring of 1953 in New York, Newark, and Philadelphia, and the author deliberately retained the form of a speech in print. The four sections—“The Defended Worldview (Logos at the Crossroads),” “The Moral Crisis (The Ruined Ethos),” “The Lost Creativity (Eros in Service),” and “The Longing for the Person and Their Happiness”—form a psycho-ethnic portrait of the Ukrainian person of the 19th and 20th centuries. Shlemkevych develops a typology: the Old World landowner, the Gogolian person, the Skovorodynian, the Shevchenko-esque, the free spirit of the late 19th century, the split of the 1920s and 1930s, and the disorientation of the 1940s.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMykola Shlemkevych (1894–1966), in M. Ivaneiko’s “Publicistka,” was a philosopher, publicist, and socio-political activist, and a full member of the NTSh and UVAN. Born in the village of Pylavi in the Ternopil region to a family of clergy, he studied philosophy in Vienna and earned his doctorate in 1926. In 1917–1919, he was the editorial secretary of the Kyiv “Robitnytsia Hazeta,” and in the 1930s developed the ideology of “creative nationalism” in the pages of the journals of the Front of National Unity. In the United States from 1949, he was the founder and editor of the journal “Letters to Friends” (1953–1966) and the “Klyuchi” publishing house (1956). 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The dust jacket is soiled and yellowed at the edges, with occasional foxing, more noticeable on the back; corners are worn, with minor creases at the top and bottom of the spine. The paper is evenly yellowed, edges are clean, with no tears or losses. The text block is firm. No owner’s inscriptions, stamps, or ex libris. Condition: good.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLifetime edition. The book has historical and cultural value and is of collector’s interest.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eINFORMATION\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThree speeches and two report-essays — this is how the author himself outlines the book’s contents in the preface, insisting that it is publicistic writing rather than scholarship, and asking the reader to approach it in this way. The collection opens with the speech “January 22,” in which the acts of 1918 and 1919 appear like the peaks of high mountains in a sunflower crown — hence the title. The second part consists of the reports “The Deepest Layer of Shevchenko’s Worldview,” with analyses of “Kateryna,” “The Hired Man,” “The Witch,” “The Neophytes,” and “Maria,” and “The Power of the Modern Age” — an extensive essay on the nature of publicistic writing and its crisis in Ukrainian spiritual culture.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMykola Shlemkevych (1894–1966) — philosopher, publicist, and socio-political figure, full member of the NTSh and UVAN. In 1926, he earned a doctorate in philosophy from the University of Vienna for a work that was later published as The Essence of Philosophy. In interwar Galicia — essayist for the Literary and Scientific Messenger and one of the ideologues of the National Unity Front; in exile from 1945, first in Germany, then in the United States. 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Yevhen Onatsky (1894–1979) analyzes “Ukrainian Emotionality,” drawing from Lypynsky and Chyzhevsky; Oleksander Kulchytsky (1895–1980) in “The Ukrainian’s Worldview” relies on Jung and Adler; Bohdan Tsymbalysty derives national character from the structure of the family; Mykola Shlemkevych seeks it in song; Volodymyr Doroshenko (1879–1963) provides a brief bibliographic review of the literature on the subject.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMykola Shlemkevych (1894–1966) — philosopher and publicist, full member of the NTSh, editor of the collection; other works of his were published by the “Klyuchi” publishing house — “The Lost Ukrainian Person” (1954) and “Galicianism” (1956) in the “Life and Thoughts” series. 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Lev Haidukovych, a Salesian; a message to readers by Patriarch and Cardinal Josyf Slipyj; cover design by Yakiv Hnyzdovskyi.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eRome: published by the Ukrainian Catholic University named after Pope Clement, 1979. — 710 pp.: illustrations, color plates. — (Works of the Greco-Catholic Theological Academy; vols. XLIX–L). — 23.5 × 17 cm. — Printed by “Esse-Gi-Esse,” Rome. Parallel title in Latin: Giuseppe Ricciotti. Vita di Gesù Cristo.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003ePublisher’s dust jacket in heavy cream-colored cardboard: four woodcut-style images—the Virgin Mary as Hodegetria, the Baptism, the Crucifixion, and Christ in Majesty—separated by a red cross, with the author’s name and title in stylized red uncial script. The dust jacket is soiled, with stains and numerous creases across its entire surface, rubbing and tears at the bottom of the spine, and paper loss in the lower corner of the back cover; the top corner of the front cover is creased. 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Nearly a third of the book is devoted to the “Introduction”—Jesus’s homeland, Herod the Great and his successors, the Roman procurators, the Temple, the Sanhedrin, the synagogue, and Jewish sects—followed by chapters on non-Christian and Christian sources, the four Gospels and the Synoptic Problem, the chronology of Jesus’s life, and an overview of rationalist explanations. The text is accompanied by photographs of Palestine, color plates, and a name index.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eGiuseppe Ricciotti (1890–1964) was an Italian biblical scholar, archaeologist, and priest, a Lateran canon, and the author of “History of the People of Israel” and a translation of Josephus’s “The Jewish War.” The idea for “The Life of Jesus Christ” came to him in an Alpine military hospital during World War I; he did not finish writing it until Europe was entering World War II, and he dated the preface Rome, January 1941.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe Ukrainian translation was done by Fr. 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Sviatoslav Hordynsky’s cover is of independent artistic interest, and the pamphlet has historical and cultural value as a relic of the ideological debates of the post-war emigration.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eINFORMATION\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“Ukrainian Synthesis or Ukrainian Civil War” is Mykola Shlemkevych’s programmatic treatise on the three “creative forces” of Ukrainian history: autocracy (monarchy), democracy (popular rule), and leadership. The author traces them from the princely and Hetmanate eras to the statehood of 1917–1920 and argues that the victory of a single idea is improbable and undesirable, and that the only path to Ukrainian internal peace is their synthesis. 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On the dedication page — an owner’s signature in blue ink, difficult to read (probably “Stepan Ne…”). Condition: good.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFirst edition, published during the author’s lifetime. The book has historical and cultural value and is of collector’s interest.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eINFORMATION\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“Halychanshchyna” is an essay on Galicia not as a geography, but as a psychological category: the author considers the Galician as a distinct psychological type within Ukrainian identity and traces its emergence from the princely era and the Zaporozhian Host to the mid-20th century. Five chapters lead from the prehistory of Halychanshchyna through the “Spring of Nations” of 1848 and the “Rus’ka Rada,” the polemic between narodists and Muscovite-lovers, the spiritual revolution led by Ivan Franko, and the acts of October 18 and November 1, 1918 — to the “forms of ruin” of the interwar twenties: the UNR-Polish-Ukrainian State, social radicalism, the agrarian-labor movement, and nationalism. The epilogue “Soborna Zrivnyannya” describes the opposing processes of the “Easternization” of Western Ukraine and the “Galicianization” of Eastern Ukraine. The author first presented these ideas in late 1941 and later repeated them in German prisoner-of-war camps.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMykola Shlemkevych (1894–1966), also known by the pseudonym M. 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The rusted staples have left rust marks on the first and last leaves. The paper is uniformly yellowed, with foxing on the title page; the corners of individual leaves are dog-eared. The last leaf, containing advertisements for the Karpatia Society and the Ukrainian Youth magazine, is torn, with some text missing. Condition: fair.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe book is of historical and cultural value and is of collector’s interest.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eINFORMATION\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn the introduction, the author contrasts the anniversary celebrations in Galicia with silent prayer “there,” where “modern-day paganism, with bullets, torture, and Solovki,” is killing the soul of the people. The book was published in 1938, in the midst of the Great Terror in the Ukrainian SSR. 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The book, dedicated to the Przemysl Bishop Konstantin Chekhovych, is a monument of Galician anti-alcohol missionary preaching from the early 20th century and has historical and cultural value.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eINFORMATION\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTwenty missionary sermons—ten against drunkenness and ten against shamelessness—were composed by a village priest from the Sokahlyne region. The first part shows how vodka and taverns harm the people, their souls, property, health, family happiness, and good name, demonstrates that they become the cause of crimes, answers the excuses of drunkards, and concludes with advice on how to reform and convert a drunkard. The second part, from p. 119, contrasts purity with shamelessness: it speaks of impure thoughts and desires, indecent conversations and songs, sinful associations, amusements, dances, and music, and of natural and extraordinary divine punishments for shamelessness; the book concludes with a sermon on dignity and the fruits of a perfected life. The sermons are written in the lively Galician language of the early 20th century, with biblical quotations, including Church Slavonic.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eEmilian (Omelian) Krynytsky (1845–1916) was a Greek Catholic priest and parish priest of the village of Bobiatyn in the Sokahlyne region, in the Przemysl Diocese. He published two collections of missionary sermons. His son Raphael, a Basilian, worked as a missionary and editor in Brazil for twenty-three years.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe book was published by the Basilian Fathers in Zhovkva, where one of the largest Ukrainian printing houses in Galicia was located. The printing was authorized by the Przemysl Episcopal Ordinariate on August 15, 1910 (No. 3209); the authorization was signed by Bishop Konstantin and censor Rev. T. Podolynsky. The author dedicated the edition to Bishop Konstantin Chekhovych “in grateful memory” of the Archiepiscopal visitation of the Sokahlyne Deanery in 1909. The edition belongs to the anti-alcohol missionary literature of Galicia, where the Church fought drunkenness through sobriety brotherhoods and missions.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"archivevam","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":64589860700531,"sku":"SKU-00633","price":4400.0,"currency_code":"UAH","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0943\/7885\/2723\/files\/pr-15528967766387.jpg?v=1793986568"},{"product_id":"sertiianzh-antonen-dalmas-isus-zahreb-1943","title":"Serdijan Antonin-Dalmas. Isus: reflections on the Savior. Zagreb, 1943","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eA. D. SERTILLANGES. 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The translator's name is not indicated on the title page.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eVienna: published by Adolf Holtzhausen, 1900. — Text of Psalms 1–150 in two columns, ends on p. 125. — Approx. 18 × 11 cm. Edition not indicated.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn half-cloth binding: black cloth on the spine and corners, marbled paper endpapers in blue and cream tones; owner's initials embossed in gold at the bottom of the spine, the embossing is worn and partially illegible. Block edges are speckled, in blue-green tones. Cloth is worn along the edges, corners are blunted, marbled paper has small losses of paint layer. Paper has uniform yellowing, stains on the edges and occasional spots; corners of the first and last leaves are creased and rubbed; several leaves in the middle of the block protrude from the spine. On the title page, under the printed vignette, there is an owner's inscription in pencil, faded and illegible; near the beginning of Psalm 50, there is an ink mark. 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Printed in a font imitating uncial script, in two columns — the layout consciously follows the tradition of a liturgical book.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFor centuries, the Psalter in Ukrainian lands was not only a prayer book, but also a primer: people learned to read from it, and it was read over the sick and the dying. The translation of the Psalms into the living language in Galicia in the 1890s was a delicate matter — both the church and secular sides saw it as a matter of national dignity. At the end of the 19th century, Ukrainian translations of the Holy Scriptures (Panteleimon Kulish, Ivan Pulyi, Ivan Nechuy-Levytsky) were published precisely in Vienna, outside the bounds of Russian censorship.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAdolf Holtzhausen was the owner of a major Viennese printing house, which had the status of the Imperial and Royal Court and University printer and published works in many languages of the monarchy, including Cyrillic. 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Introduction to the Works of Cardinal Joseph, Primate.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e[Munich]: “Suchasnist” Publishing House, 1988. — 205, [3] pp. — ISBN 3-89278-012-9. — Approx. 23 × 16 cm. Place of publication not stated on the title page: it only says “Suchasnist 1988”; in 1988, the editorial office and publishing house were located in Munich, while the administration was in Newark, New Jersey. Retail price — $10. Print run not stated. Contents: From the Publisher (p. 5); Introductory Remarks by Fr. I. Muzychko (p. 7); Cardinal Joseph, Primate-Metropolitan (p. 9); the same in Latin (p. 73) and English (p. 85); Patriarch Joseph’s Message on Unity in Christ (p. 139) and an Attempt to Interpret It (p. 143); Epilogue (p. 203).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eOriginal softcover in grey-beige paper, with the author’s name, title, and publication details printed in black; no other decorations. The cover is clean, the corners are undamaged, and the spine is even, without tears; there are two small yellowish spots and a barely noticeable touch mark on the back cover. The paper is white, without yellowing, and the edges are clean; the block is firm, and the pages are not loose. There are no inscriptions, stamps, ex libris, or underlining. Condition: very good.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003ePublished during the author’s lifetime. The book has historical and cultural value.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eINFORMATION\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThis volume brings together the introductory articles Fr. Ivan Hryniv wrote for the first five volumes of “The Works of Cardinal Joseph, Primate,” published by the Ukrainian Catholic University in Rome from 1968, with the peculiarity that his name was not mentioned in the volumes themselves. The texts are presented in Ukrainian, Latin, and English; they are accompanied by a later study, “Patriarch Joseph’s Message on Unity in Christ,” published in “Bohoslovstvo” (Vol. XLI, 1977). The author analyzes the ecumenical program of the 1976 message and describes the circumstances of its publication — the Curia’s prohibition of the Synod under the Patriarch’s leadership and the prohibition of his participation in the Eucharistic Congress in Philadelphia.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIvan Hryniv (1907–1994) was a Greek Catholic priest, theologian, doctor, patriarchal archimandrite, and Joseph Slipy’s (1892–1984) closest long-time associate. Born in Pavliv in the Radkivskyi district; in 1941, he was the chaplain of the “Nakhtigal” Battalion, later a member of the Ukrainian Main Liberation Council and its representative in the West, and one of the leading figures in emigration policy. 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The last pages contain letters from readers and a catalog of \"The Word of the Good Shepherd\" publications for 1950–1951 with prices — a valuable source for the history of Ukrainian Catholic publishing in America.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSevastiyan Sabol (1909–2003), known in the world as Stepan, also known as the poet Zoreslav, — a Basilian, theologian, and writer from Transcarpathia. He belonged to the leading figures of the Transcarpathian literary revival of the 1930s, from 1944 in exile, later a Basilian proto-abbot in the USA; he wrote the history of the persecution of the Greek Catholic Church in his native lands. 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The text traces the development from Old Testament prefigurations through the events of the Gospels to the title of Queen, proclaimed by Pope Pius XII in 1954—here still primarily in a theological and popular sense, rather than a saintly one. The text contains many references to Ukrainian Marian devotion: Zharvanets, Hoshiv, Basilian indulgences, and May devotions in parishes. It includes a reproduction of an image of the Virgin Mary; the final pages contain a subscription notice and a list of issues in the series.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e«The Word of the Good Shepherd» was a popular series published by the Congregation of St. Basil the Great in the United States: small thirty-two-page pamphlets issued from Glen Cove on Long Island several times a year and distributed by subscription among Ukrainian Greek Catholic parishes. Each issue was written by a different Basilian priest on a single topic, ranging from church history to current events. 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The Power of the Press. — (\"The Word of the Good Shepherd\"; Year IV, No. 2).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eGlen Cove, N.Y.: \"The Word of the Good Shepherd,\" published by the Order of St. Basil the Great in the USA, February 1953. — 32 pp.: illus.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOriginal cream-colored publisher's cover with blue printing: an engraved composition featuring a printing press and figures of compositors, with the series emblem at the bottom. Yellowing of the paper, rubbing and spots on the cover, creased edges, and a fold mark in the middle of the brochure. The text block is firm, and the text is clean. Condition: good.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLifetime edition. The brochure has historical and cultural value and is of collector's interest.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eINFORMATION\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis is a text about the press, written for people who themselves lived with a church newspaper. The author argues that in exile, the printed word replaces the school, the pulpit, and the community, and therefore a neglected press means dissolving into a foreign-language environment in a single generation. There is also a practical side: how much an issue costs, why a subscription is more important than a donation, and how a parish can maintain its own publication. Photographs of the printing house are included; the last pages contain a catalog of the series' publications with prices and the publishing house's address in Glen Cove.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIryney Nazarko (1905–1976) — a Basilian, church historian, long-time employee and editor of the scientific journal Chynu \"Analecta OSBM\" in Rome. 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The text block is firm, pages are clean. Condition: good.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLifetime edition. The brochure has historical and cultural value and is of collector's interest.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eINFORMATION\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHoshiv in the Dolyna region is one of the oldest Basilian monasteries in Galicia and the home of the miraculous Hoshiv icon of the Mother of God, to which tens of thousands of pilgrims came for indulgences. The Soviet authorities closed the monastery, expelled the monks, and the icon was hidden in private homes. The brochure was written in exile at the very time when a rest home stood on Jasna Hora itself: it is an attempt to preserve the memory of a place that was inaccessible.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMarko Dyrda, OSBM — a Basilian monk and author of popular religious and historical essays published in American editions of the Ukrainian Catholic clergy. 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The text block is firm, the paper is clean and cream-colored, with light natural toning. On the title page, the verso of the title page and p. 17 — blue oval stamps with the trident of the Ukrainian House Library in Toronto: “Research \u0026amp; Information Library · Бібліотека · 83 Christie Toronto · Український Дім · Ukrainian Cultural Centre”. Condition: good.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe book has historical and cultural value and is of collector’s interest.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eINFORMATION\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSo that no one could accuse him of using “idealistic” sources, the author demonstrates the intelligent design of the world almost exclusively with quotations from the Soviet popular science press — “Nauka i zhizn”, “Znanie — sila”, “Priroda”, “Tekhnika — molodezhi”, the Kyiv “Nauka i zhizn”, and even the antireligious journal “Nauka i religiya”. The exposition proceeds from the atom and molecule through the cell, the origin of life and the structure of the human brain to the Solar System, galaxies and infinity; the second part, “God”, concludes that nature, the heart and the mind lead man to the Creator.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe book is addressed to the emigrant youth. The introductory essay “About ‘Wisdom in the Universe’” was written by Prof. Dr. Yuriy Mulyk-Lutsyk (1913–1991) — a native of Volyn, living in Winnipeg since 1948, professor at St. Andrew’s College and editor of the church “Visnyk”. He presents the author as both a theologian and a physicist-naturalist, and the work itself — as the first work in Ukrainian scientific literature that uses concrete data from physics and biology to argue for the creation of the world.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe edition was printed in the Winnipeg printing house Trident Press Ltd. with a parallel English title “Wisdom in the Universe. God”. In the italicized introductory texts, the letter “ч” has been consistently typeset as “г”, so the author’s surname there reads “Ovhaarenko”, and “час” — “гас”.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"archivevam","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67137471480179,"sku":"SKU-00962","price":600.0,"currency_code":"UAH","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0943\/7885\/2723\/files\/pr-15602194415987.jpg?v=1793989391"},{"product_id":"vindelband-istoriia-novoi-filosofii-kyiv-lviv-1913","title":"Windelband Wilhelm. History of New Philosophy. Kyiv; Lviv, 1913","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e“Books are a sea. He who dives into them to the bottom, though he has had much labor, brings out wondrous pearls.” — Ivan Franko, epigraph to the translator’s preface\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eW. Windelband. History of Modern Philosophy \/ translated from German by Mykola Zaliznyak.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eKyiv — Lviv: Ukrainian-Russian Publishing Society, 1913. — 242 pp.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLater hardback binding: covers bound in black morocco with blind stamping — an ornamental frame of scrolls on both covers, with a vignette, the author’s name, and the title also stamped in gold on the front cover. Endpapers of printed marbled paper in blue-and-tan tones, blue cloth hinges. The binding is fresh, without rubbing. The paper shows natural yellowing; the inner margins of several leaves have brownish stains, and the lower portions of the title and final leaves have a pinkish stain; on the top margin of the final leaf (p. 242), there is a small cut in the paper without loss of text. Occasional underlining in ink within the text. On the title leaf, an owner’s inscription in ink reads “Yendyk Maria. Coll. 7\/5 19,” with a barely visible stamp impression. 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The translator Mykola Zaliznyak (1888–1950), a native of Melitopol, was a public and political figure: during World War I, he worked as a journalist and publisher in Vienna, was active in the Union for the Liberation of Ukraine, and headed the diplomatic mission of the Ukrainian People’s Republic in Finland in 1919–1920; he was arrested by Soviet authorities in 1945 and died in prison.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe book was published by the Ukrainian-Russian Publishing Society—a Lviv publishing house founded in 1899 at the initiative of Mykhailo Hrushevsky, Ivan Franko, and Volodymyr Hnatiuk; the dual place of publication “Kyiv — Lviv” reflects the joint publishing vision for both parts of Ukraine. On the title page is the Society’s monogram. 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Condition: restored.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis publication from the DP camp era has historical and cultural value, while Yulian Butsmaniuk’s cover is of independent artistic interest.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eINFORMATION\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis collection, in which Ukrainian refugees in postwar Germany paid tribute to the Mother of God as the Sovereign and Patroness of Ukraine, was published in Munich in 1947 under the auspices of the church authorities. It opens with Fr. Mykola Voyakovsky’s article “On the Veneration of the Mother of God Among the Ukrainian People”; D. Bohun writes about miraculous icons of the Mother of God in Ukraine, and A. Voyakovska writes about Mount Stradest. 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