Ukrainskyi pravopys (Ukrainian Spelling)

Praha (Prague): Knihtisk, 1942. First Edition. Very good. First edition; 6 x 4 1/4; pp. [2], 5-25, [3]; rebound in speckled, olive paper over boards and 3/4 blue leatherette; two small, later, typed labels with title and author's name to front board and spine; minor foxing, mostly to first and last few leaves; penciled-in, manuscript note to pp. 5; in very good condition.Iaroslav Rudnytskyi, alt. spelling Jaroslav Rudnyckyj (1910 - 1995) was a Ukrainian-Canadian author, folklorist, linguist, lexicographer, co-founder of the Canadian branch of the Ukrainian Free Academy of Sciences, and a founding father of Canadian "Multiculturalism." After leaving Ukraine between the two wars, he was a professor at the Ukrainian Free University in Prague between 1941 and 1945 and at the University of Heidelberg from 1945 to 1948, before emigrating to Canada and organizing the Department of Slavic Studies at the University of Manitoba. A prolific writer, he published numerous books on the dialects of the Ukrainian language and its etymology, dictionaries, chronicles of Slavic holdings in various North American libraries, and more.