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Zenon Wasyliw

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Date of Interview

10 April 2016

Interviewer

Dillon Eggleston and Grace Palumbo

Interviewee

Zenon Wasyliw

Biographical Text

Zenon Wasyliw is a professor of History at Ithaca College. He is a member of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church here in Johnson City, New York. Both of his parents emigrated from Ukraine at the end of World War II after his father had been offered a position in the Ukrainian Catholic Church in Binghamton as a choir director. He and his wife live together in Ithaca, and make the hour long drive to Johnson City each week to attend mass, although his wife is not of Ukrainian descent. He has traveled to Ukraine and Russia multiple times to tour the hometowns of his parents and do dissertation work at Kiev University.

Duration

54:15 minutes

Digital Publisher

Binghamton University

Interview Format

audio

Subject LCSH

Wasyliw, Zenon. --Interviews; Ukrainians--United States; Diaspora, Ukraine—History; Ukrainian; Migrations; Church; Ethnic identity; Culture; Ukrainian cooking; Broome County (N.Y.)

Rights Statement

This audio file and digital image may only be used for educational purposes. Please cite as: Ukrainian Oral History Project, Special Collections, Binghamton University Libraries, Binghamton University, State University of New York. For usage beyond fair use please contact the Binghamton University Libraries Special Collections for more information.

Files

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Citation

“Zenon Wasyliw,” Digital Collections, accessed March 21, 2023, https://omeka.binghamton.edu/omeka/items/show/559.