Dokia Humenna "Ispyt Pamiati" manuscript
Scope and Contents
This collection contains a typewritten manuscript of Dokia Humenna's autobiography "Ispyt Pamiati" ("A Test of Memory") - later partially published as "Дар Евдотеї: Іспит Пам'яті" ("Gift of Eudothea"). The memoir covers the time period from her childhood through 1973.
Фонд складається з машинописного рукопису автобіографії Докії Гуменни "Іспит Пам'яті", який був частково виданий під назвою "Дар Евдотеї". Спогади охоплюють період від її дитинства до 1973 року.
Dates
- 1972 - 1974
Conditions Governing Access
The collection is open for researcher use. Please contact the archivist (archives@ukrhec.org) for more information and to make arrangements.
Conditions Governing Use
Copyright restrictions may apply.
Biographical / Historical
Dokia Humenna was a major Ukrainian writer of over 30 books of prose. She began her career in Soviet Ukraine, and continued it as a refugee in western Europe and New York City. She was born in the city of Zhashkiv (now Cherkasy oblast', Ukraine), and began to publish essays in the 1920s. During World War II she became a refugee, first in L'viv, then in Saltzburg, Austria. She resettled in New York City, where she was a prominent member of the vibrant Ukrainian American literary and cultural scene of the 1950s and '60s.
Extent
1 Linear Feet (2 boxes)
Language of Materials
Ukrainian
Abstract
Dokia Humenna was a major Ukrainian and Ukrainian American writer of over 30 books of prose. This collection consists of a typewritten manuscript of her autobiography.
- Status
- Completed
- Author
- Michael Andrec
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
Repository Details
Part of the Ukrainian History and Education Center Archives Repository