John-Paul Himka
John-Paul Himka | |
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Born | [1] | May 18, 1949
Academic background | |
Education | University of Michigan BA (1971) Byzantine-Slavonic Studies Ph.D. History[1] |
Alma mater | University of Michigan |
Thesis | "Polish and Ukrainian Socialism: Austria, 1867–1890" (1977) |
Academic work | |
Discipline | History |
Institutions | University of Alberta |
Main interests | History of Eastern Europe, Ukraine[2] |
John-Paul Himka (
Life
Himka is of mixed ethnic background, Ukrainian (on father's side) and Italian (on mother's). Initially, he wanted to become a Greek Catholic priest and studied at
Career
Beginning in 1977, he taught at University of Alberta, Department of History and Classics.[4] He became full Professor in 1992 and retired from the university in 2014.[1] Himka is the recipient of several awards and fellowships, most notably the Rutherford Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching in 2006, the Philip Lawson Award for Excellence in Teaching,[5] and the J. Gordin Kaplan Award for Research Excellence.[6] He served as co-editor of the Encyclopedia of Ukraine for three volumes devoted to history.[7]
Himka, who traveled to Ukraine to conduct research since 1976, began to work with academics at
The fundamental point of contention between the adherents of the national myth and me is whether or not the
Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists (hereafter OUN) and its armed force, the Ukrainian Insurgent Army (hereafter UPA, from its Ukrainian initials) participated in the Holocaust. They deny this entirely. My research indicates, however, as does the research of scholars around the world, that the participation was significant.— John-Paul Himka [6]
In his 1996 article, Krakivski visti and the Jews, 1943: A Contribution to the History of Ukrainian-Jewish Relations during the Second World War, published in the
Himka completed a series of three major studies on the history of Ukrainian Galicia in the 19th century. The first, Socialism in Galicia: the emergence of Polish social democracy and Ukrainian radicalism (1860–1890) was published in 1983.
In his 2005 article, War Criminality: A Blank Spot in the Collective Memory of the Ukrainian Diaspora War Criminality
His 2009 book, Last Judgment Iconography in the Carpathians, was the result of ten years of research "throughout the region of the Carpathian Mountains, where he "found a distinctive and transnational blending of Gothic, Byzantine, and Novgorodian art."[19]
In his chapter Ethnicity and the Reporting of Mass Murder: Krakivs′ki visti, the NKVD Murders of 1941, and the Vinnytsia Exhumation,[20] Himka examined how the Krakivs'ki Visti, an "important [Ukrainian] nationalist newspaper" "reported on two cases of mass violence by the Soviets, the 1941 NKVD prisoner massacres and the 1943 Vinnytsia massacre. Himka wrote that Krakivs'ki Visti "ethnicized both perpetrators and victims, ascribing primarily Jewish identity to the former and depicting the latter as almost exclusively Ukrainian."[21]: 17
Personal life
John-Paul Himka is married to Chrystia Chomiak,[1] the daughter of Michael Chomiak's (1905 – 1984),[22][23] who was an editor of the Ukrainian antisemitic newspaper Krakivs'ki Visti. Himka learned of this only after Chomiak died in 1984.[24][25] They have two children.[1]
Awards
He was awarded the 2001-2002 Killam Annual Professorship[8]
- Antonovych prize (1988)
- Rutherford Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching (2006)
- Philip Lawson Award for Excellence in Teaching [5]
- J. Gordin Kaplan Award for Research Excellence
Bibliography
- Books
- Socialism in Galicia: The Emergence of Polish Social Democracy and Ukrainian Radicalism (1860–1890) (1983)
- Galician Villagers and the Ukrainian National Movement in the Nineteenth Century, Palgrave Macmillan (1988)
- Religion and Nationality in Western Ukraine: The Greek Catholic Church and the Ruthenian National Movement in Galicia, 1867–1900 (1999)
- Last Judgment Iconography in the Carpathians (2009)
- Ukrainian Nationalists and the Holocaust: OUN and UPA’s Participation in the Destruction of Ukrainian Jewry, 1941–1944 (2021)
- Edited and co-edited volumes
- (Assistant editor.) Rethinking Ukrainian History (1981)
- (Editor, translator and author of introduction.) Rosdolsky, Roman. Engels and the "Nonhistoric" Peoples: The National Question in the Revolution of 1848 (1986)
- Galicia and Bukovina: A Research Handbook about Western Ukraine, Late 19th and 20th Centuries (1990)
- Co-editor (with Hans-Joachim Torke). German-Ukrainian Relations in Historical Perspective (1994)
- Co-editor (with Andriy Zayarnyuk). Letters from Heaven: Popular Religion in Russia and Ukraine (2006)
- Co-editor (with Joanna Beata Michlic). Bringing the Dark Past to Light: The Reception of the Holocaust in Post-Communist Europe (2013)
References
- ^ a b c d e f g h Himka, John-Paul. "John-Paul Himka: CV". University of Alberta, Department of History and Classics. Archived from the original (PDF) on 27 January 2016. Retrieved 13 December 2016.
- ^ "John-Paul Himka". UAlberta.academia.edu. nd. Retrieved June 10, 2018.
- ^ a b c Інтерв'ю: Іван-Павло Химка: 'Я пережив багато методологічних мод' [Interview: John Paul Himka 'I have lived through many methodological trends'] (in Ukrainian). Historians.in.ua. 2 April 2012. Retrieved 13 December 2016.
- ^ John-Paul Himka, Curriculum vitae. Archived 2017-01-27 at the Wayback Machine Department of History and Classics, University of Alberta.
- ^ a b Fellow Professor John-Paul Himka. United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.
- ^ a b John-Paul Himka, Challenging the Myths of Twentieth-Century Ukrainian History. Department of History and Classics, University of Alberta, page 3 in PDF.
- Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies.
- ^ a b c Janelle, Jacqueline (February 8, 2002). "The history of Dr. John-Paul Himka: Killam professor digs into history before it was history". FOLIO, University of Alberta. Retrieved June 10, 2018.
- ISBN 0300095929.
- ^ a b c d e f Himka, John-Paul (Summer–Winter 1996). "Krakivski visti and the Jews, 1943: A Contribution to the History of Ukrainian-Jewish Relations during the Second World War". Journal of Ukrainian Studies. 21: 81–95.
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- ISBN 0920862543.
- ^ ISBN 978-0-7735-1812-4.
- JSTOR 41036711.
- JSTOR 40870196.
- H-Net Reviewsin the Humanities and the Social Sciences: Habsburg.
- ^ a b "War Criminality: A Blank Spot in the Collective Memory of the Ukrainian Diaspora". Spaces of Identity. 5 (1). April 11, 2005. Retrieved June 10, 2018.
- ^ a b Potichnyj, Peter J.; Aster, Howard, eds. (1988). Ukrainian-Jewish Relations in Historical Perspective. Edmonton: Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies.
- ISBN 978-0802098092.
- ISBN 978-0-253-00635-6.
- ^ Bartov, Omer; Weitz, Eric D. (eds.). Introduction. Shatterzone of Empires: Coexistence and Violence in the German, Habsburg, Russian, and Ottoman Borderlands. Bloomington: Indiana University Press Year=2013.
- ^ Colby Cosh (March 8, 2017). "Of course it's 'news' that Freeland's grampa was a Nazi collaborator, even if the Russians are spreading it". National Post.
- Krakivs'ki visti published materials from German papers, especially the Nazi party organ Völkischer Beobachter, which appeared frequently. Articles were also translated from Berliner Illustrierte Nachtausgabe and all most important Berlin papers.
- ^ Robert Fife, Ottawa Bureau Chief (March 7, 2017). "Freeland knew her grandfather was editor of Nazi newspaper". The Globe and Mail.
Although [Himka] acknowledged that Mr. Chomiak was a Nazi collaborator, he maintained that the Germans made the editorial decisions to run anti-Semitic articles and other Nazi propaganda.
- ^ David Pugliese (March 8, 2017). "Chrystia Freeland's granddad was indeed a Nazi collaborator – so much for Russian disinformation". Ottawa Citizen.
Chomiak edited the paper first in Krakow (Cracow), Poland and then in Vienna. The reason he edited the paper in Vienna was because he had to flee with his Nazis colleagues as the Russians advanced into Poland.