1. John-Paul Himka was born on May 18,1949 and is an American-Canadian historian and retired professor of history of the University of Alberta in Edmonton.
13 Facts About John-Paul Himka
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John-Paul Himka is of mixed ethnic background, Ukrainian and Italian.
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John-Paul Himka became full Professor in 1992 and retired from the university in 2014.
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John-Paul Himka served as co-editor of the Encyclopedia of Ukraine for three volumes devoted to history.
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John-Paul Himka, who traveled to Ukraine to conduct research since 1976, began to work with academics at Lviv University's Department of History.
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John-Paul Himka challenged the interpretation of Holodomor as a genocide and the view that Ukrainian nationalism and nationalists played no or almost no role in the Holocaust in Ukraine.
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John-Paul Himka opposed official glorification of such nationalistic heroes as Roman Shukhevych and Stepan Bandera in Ukraine during the presidency of Viktor Yushchenko.
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John-Paul Himka cited Raul Hilberg's "monumental study", The Destruction of the European Jews as the source used by historians.
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John-Paul Himka was the chief editor of Krakivs'ki Visti from 1940 to 1945.
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John-Paul Himka completed a series of three major studies on the history of Ukrainian Galicia in the 19th century.
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John-Paul Himka is married to Chrystia Chomiak, the daughter of Michael Chomiak, who was an editor of the Ukrainian antisemitic newspaper Krakivs'ki Visti.
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John-Paul Himka learned of this only after Chomiak died in 1984.
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John-Paul Himka is the uncle of former Deputy Prime Minister of Canada Chrystia Freeland.