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THE UKRAINIAN UNIVERSITY IN GALICIA 519After the Second World War and the incorporation of most of theterritories of Eastern Galicia into the Soviet Ukraine, the university atLviv ostensibly became Ukrainian and was renamed the Ivan FrankoUniversity. Studyns'kyi was appointed rector in 1939 and remained atthe post until his death in 1941. The Polish-Ukrainian phase of thestruggle for a Ukrainian university in Galicia had ended.Manhattanville CollegeAPPENDIXMost of the following documents are being published for the first time; a fewwere published in slightly different versions in the 1920s. They detail thenegotiations between the Poles and the Ukrainians about the establishment ofthe nucleus for a Ukrainian university in Cracow under the aegis of theJagellonian University (1923-1925). The documents are taken from the papersof Jan Łoś, then rector of the Jagellonian. Today they are housed in theManuscript Division of the Jagellonian Library. The fileis arranged in roughlychronological order, and I have adhered to that order here. The importance ofthe material is twofold: it illustrates the tenor and complexities of the relationsbetween the Poles and Ukrainians in the interwar period, and it reflects uponthe role academics can play in political affairs.I am deeply grateful to Władysław Serczyk, formerly director of the Jagellonianand later rector of the university, for helping to make my stay in Cracowpleasant and productive. A grant from the Fulbright Foundation made researchin Poland possible. I thank my father, Dr. Daniel Bohachevsky, agraduate of Lviv University, for transcribing the documents, and Dr. BohdanStruminsky of Harvard University for checking through the transcriptions.Without the encouragement of Professors Omeljan Pritsak and Ihor Sevćenkoof Harvard these documents would not appear here.Document 1: Los's note on the attempts to establish a Ukrainian universityin 1924-1925.The Polish government approached Jan Łoś in 1923 about the possibility ofestablishing either a Ukrainian university or chairs in Ukrainian studies at theJagellonian in Cracow. That year the Poles secured their eastern borders, butinternally the political and economic situation was critical. At the end of November1923, the prime minister, Wincenty Witos, appointed Stanisław Grabski minister of