Pawlo Kukuruza papers

Collection — Box: 1

Identifier: IHRC1292

Staff Only

Abstract

Papers of publisher and editor Pawlo Kukuruza include correspondence with the UNCHR Indemnification Fund, UUARC, Inc., doctors and lawyers, and various Ukrainian Americans regarding publications; newspaper clippings; photocopies of journals he edited and published; biographical materials; a bibliography of sub-Carpathian literature; publications about bee-keeping, and photographs.

Dates

Creation: 1946-1967

Creator

Kukuruza, Pawlo, 1896-1978 (Person)

Language of Materials

Ukrainian, English, German, and Czech

ACCESS RESTRICTIONS

Open for use in the Elmer L. Andersen Library reading room.

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HISTORICAL SKETCH

A publisher and editor, Pawlo Kukuruza (1896-1978) was born in Nova Ushchytsia, Ukraine and came to the United States in 1949 after living in Prague and Slovakia. Kukuruza had also lived in Uzhhorod where he organized the Pchilka Publishing house, which published monographs, the youth journal Pchilka, the montly Pidkarpatske pscholiarstvo and a series of children's books. He also edited almanacs of the Prosvita society and various textbooks. He was imprisoned in Hungary (1939) and in Germany (1941-1942). From 1945 to 1949, he organized the publishing activities of the Ukrainian Technicaland Husbandry Institute in Munich.