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Article: The editors of The Ukrainian Weekly: youth at work
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- The Ukrainian Weekly
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- October 10, 1993
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Khristina Lew
Ukrainian Weekly, The
10-10-1993
The editors of The Ukrainian Weekly: youth at work.
by Khristina Lew
By the 1930s, the Ukrainian American community had come to a crossroads: Ukrainian-born activists and community leaders were getting old or dying out without enlisting the American-born generation to replace them, and the youth, the first generation to be born in the United States, was struggling to balance its Ukrainian heritage with an American way of life. Few organizations beyond the churches and fraternal organizations were strong enough to keep the community unified, and many community activists feared that the fruits of their labor would shrivel and die.
Some would argue ...