Scholars in Exile : The Ukranian Intellectual World in Interwar Czechoslovakia

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Throughout the 1920s and 30s Prague was the intellectual center of Ukrainian emigres in Europe, not least because of significant financial support from the Czechoslovak government and its first president, Toma's 161; Garrigue Masaryk, for emigre students and intellectuals. On the basis of extensive archival research in Ottawa, Prague, and Kyiv, Zavorotna outlines the continuation of Ukrainian scholarship in history, linguistics, pedagogy, the visual arts, and other disciplines at various institutions in Prague and Pod's 11B;brady. These schools constitute the critical link between Ukrainian intellectual life before World War One and postwar emigre communities in Canada and the United States.

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