Eternal memory! The Encyclopaedia of Ukraine on Arkadii Zhukovksy: Zhukovsky, Arkadii [Žukovs’kyj, Arkadij] (Joukovsky), b 12 January 1922 in Chernivtsi, Bukovyna, d 2 October 2014 in Paris. Historian; member of the Shevchenko Scientific Society (NTSh) since 1972, and foreign member of the Ukrainian Academy of Sciences since 1991. A postwar émigré, he was active in Ukrainian student organizations, particularly as head of the Union of Ukrainian Student Societies in Austria (1947–9) and member of the executive of the Central Union of Ukrainian Students (from 1948), and completed his studies in Graz (1949). He was head of Zarevo (1955–8) and general secretary of the Ukrainian Academic Society in Paris (from 1959). He continued his studies at the Ukrainian Free University (PH D, 1969) and the Sorbonne (PH D, 1976). In 1960 he began teaching at the Institut national des langues et civilisations orientales in Paris, and in 1969, at the Ukrainian Free University in Munich, where he later became prodean of the Faculty of #Philosophy. From 1968 he was scientific secretary of NTSh in Europe, and in 1987 he became its head. In 1983 he became president of the Petliura Ukrainian Library in Paris. Zhukovsky is renowned as a historian of Bukovyna and of the Ukrainian Autocephalous Orthodox church, which appointed him as a member of its Metropolitans Council. His publications in those areas include the sections on Bukovynian history in #Bukovyna: Ïï mynule i suchasne (Bukovyna: Its Past and Present, 1956), a report on the state of religion in the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic (ZNTSh, vol 181 [1966]), and the introduction to Martyrolohiia ukraïns’kykh tserkov (Martyrology of the Ukrainian Churches, vol 1 of the encyclopedic Ukraïns’ka Pravoslavna Tserkva [The #Ukrainian Orthodox Church], 1987). He also wrote the monograph Petro Mohyla i pytannia iednosty Tserkov (P. Mohyla and the Question of Union of the Churches, 1969) and a critical analysis of Mohylas trebnyk in the republished Trebnyk Petra Mohyly (1988). Other works by Zhukovsky in the field of history include ‘Contributions à lhistoire de lAcadémie de #Kyiv (1615–1817), centre culturel et denseignement en Europe Orientale’ (PH D diss, 1976) and ‘LUkraine dans les années 1917–1933: Aspect historique in Actes du colloque La Renaissance nationale et culturelle en #Ukraine de 1917 aux années 1930 (1986, which he also coedited), as well as articles on the Ukrainization policy, the 1932–3 man-made famine in Ukraine, Mykhailo Hrushevsky and the journal #Ukraïna, and the nationalist polemics of Mykhailo Drahomanov and Borys Hrinchenko. A longtime associate of Entsyklopediia ukraïnoznavstva (or EU, Encyclopedia of Ukraine, 10 vols, 1955–84), Zhukovsky became a member of its editorial board in 1971 and its editor in chief after the death of Volodymyr Kubijovyč in 1985. As member of the Encyclopedia of Ukraine (or AEU, 5 vols, 1984–93) editorial board from 1976 and subject editor for religion and history, he contributed a multitude of entries to that work. Zhukovsky and Orest Subtelnys article on the history of Ukraine in AEU (vol 2, 1988) was translated, updated, and published in Lviv as Narys istoriï Ukraïny (1991). D.H. Struk
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