Діяльність українських культурно-освітніх товариств крізь призму публікацій перемишльського тижневика «Український голос» в 1919-1932 рр.

Abstract

The purpose of the research is to study the activities of Ukrainian cultural and educational societies through the prism of newspaper publications of the Przemyśl week- ly “Ukrainian Voice” in 1919–1932. Th e research methodology is based on the principles of historicism, objectivity, comprehensiveness, and integrity, systematicity, as well as the use of the methods – of analysis and synthesis, historical-systematic, problem-chronological, prosopo- graphic. Th e scientifi c novelty lies in the fact that for the fi rst time, the Przemyśl interwar weekly “Ukrainian Voice” was investigated as a historical source for studying the process of activity and development of branches of Ukrainian cultural and educational societies in the city of Przemyśl in the 20s and early 30s of the 20th century. Conclusions. During the research, the following has been determined: 1) “Ukrainian Voice” was the longest-running Ukrainian secular newspaper in Przemyśl (13 years). 2) Until 1930, the newspaper was published as a “political and economic organ of Peremysk Ukraine”, then it became part of the OUN as an “organ of nationalist opi- nion”. 3) Professor D. Hreholynskyi founded the weekly, his successors were representatives of the city’s Ukrainian intelligentsia, in particular lawyers V. Zahaykevych and S. Navrotskyi, all of whom were heads or members of Ukrainian cultural and educational societies of Przemyśl. Under their editorship, the newspaper constantly posted information about Ukrainian school- ing, cultural and educational events. 4) In the late 1920s and early 1930s, the newspaper was edited by the founding members of the OUN (Z. Pelenskyi, E. Zyblikevych, V. Yulian). At that time, the cooperation of the weekly with the Ukrainian cultural and educational societies of Przemyśl signifi cantly weakened. Researchers should pay attention to the weekly “Ukrainian Voice” as a press organ of the OUN. 5) Th e fruitful cooperation between the editors of the weekly “Ukrainian Voice” and the Ukrainian cultural and educational societies of Przemyśl positively infl uenced their popularization among the Ukrainian population. Despite the destructive Polish policy, Ukrainian societies, schools, and cultural organizations not only did not decline but also developed in the interwar period. Only the Second World War and then the establishment of the Soviet regime interrupted their activities. 6) Th e Przemyśl weekly “Ukrainian Voice” contributed to the formation of the Ukrainian character of the entire Nadsiannia and the awareness of the Ukrainians of the region as a self-suffi cient nation.