«І ти, як сухеє перекотиполе, не знаєш, куди тебе вітер несе…»

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This book contains an extensive Ukrainian-language interview conducted by Lidia Stefanowska with Professor Ihor Ševčenko, an eminent Byzantine scholar and pedagogue. Ševčenko was born in Poland in the family of an émigré official of the independent Ukrainian National Republic. A graduate of Charles University in Prague (1945) and the University of Leuven in Belgium (1949), from 1949 Ševčenko taught in the United States at the University of California, the University of Michigan, Columbia University, and (from 1965) Harvard University. In 1973 he became an associate director of the Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute. He was a founding editor of Harvard Ukrainian Studies. Among many other scholarly, he wrote the book Ukraine between East and West: Essays on Cultural History to the Early Eighteenth Century (1996) and numerous articles about relations between Byzantium and Kyivan Rus’.

Ihor Ševčenko’s interviews provide a fascinating account of his growing up Ukrainian in interwar Warsaw, the years of World War II, his studies, and later his scholarly career and the process of establishing the field of Ukrainian studies in North America.