Kobzar's Children

by Skrypuch, Marsha Forchuk

• ISBN13: 9781550419979
• ISBN10: 1550419978
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2006-06-06
• Publisher: Fitzhenry & Whiteside Ltd

Summary

The Kobzars were the blind minstrels of Ukraine, who memorized the epic poems and stories of 100 generations. Traveling around the country, they stopped in towns and villages along the way, where they told their tales and were welcomed by all. During the early years of Stalin's regime in the USSR, the Kobzars wove their traditional stories with contemporary warnings of soviet repression, famine, and terror. When Stalin heard of it, he called the first conference of Kobzars in Ukraine. Hundreds congregated. Then Stalin had them murdered. As the storytellers of Ukraine died, so too did their stories. Kobzar's Children is an anthology of short historical fiction, memoirs, and poems written about the Ukrainian immigrant experience. The stories span a century of history from 1905 to 2004; and they contain the voices of people who lived through internment as "enemy aliens," homesteading, famine, displacement, concentration camps, and this new century's Orange Revolution. More than a collection, it is a social document that revives memories once deliberately forgotten. - Century of untold stories- Touches on all major points of Ukrainian history- Supported by the Shevchenko FoundationAll royalties from the sale of this book will be donated to the Ukrainian Canadian Civil Liberties Association

Table of Contents

Contents Preface A Home of Her Own by Olga Prychodko Andriy's Break by Danny Evanishen Tribute to My Grandmother by Kim Pawliw It's Me, Tatia by Brenda Hasiuk The Rings by Marsha Forchuk Skrypuch Spring Harvest by Linda Mikolayenko The Red Boots by Marsha Forchuk Skrypuch Violin by Sonja Dunn A Song for Kataryna by Linda Mikolayenko Memories of Volodymyr Serotiuk_s Birthday by Sonja Dunn Auschwitz: Many Circles of Hell by Stefan Petelycky Babyn Yar by Sonja Dunn A Bar of Chocolate by Natalia Buchok Bargain by Larry Warwaruk Candy's Revenge by Cornelia Bilinsky Veechnaya Pamyat by Sonja Dunn Changing Graves by Sonja Dunn Before Glasnost, Oy Tovarish by Sonja Dunn Christmas Missed by Paulette MacQuarrie The Gift by Sonja Dunn About the Authors