Harvard: Ukrainian Research Institute, Harvard University, Cambridge, 1980. — xiv; 496 p. Volume III/IV 1979-1980. Part 1 (Turcology). ISSN 0363-5570
The decision to honor Omeljan Pritsak with a Festschrift was taken in April of 1978, and the editorial board met for the first time in the following August. On the day of his sixtieth birthday, April 7, 1979, Professor Pritsak received a mock-up copy - containing a title page and a list of contributors - from a group of well-wishers gathered at a private celebration. On December 12, 1980, the completed Festschrift was presented to him at a convocation attended by Harvard University officials, members of the university community, and many friends and guests from all over the country and from abroad. The two parts of the Festschrift were both produced in two and a half years. These were rewarding years for the editor, for his task was made easy by the spontaneous support of people throughout the academic community. Francis W. Cleaves, Tibor Halasi-Kun, Edward L. Keenan, George Y. Shevelov, and Wiktor Weintraub promptly agreed to serve on the editorial board and to provide advice on general policy. A younger group, chaired by Frank E. Sysyn and consisting of George G. Grabowicz, Lubomyr A. Hajda, Edward Kasinec, Zenon E. Kohut, Uliana M. Pasicznyk, and Bohdan Strumins’kyj, took over the vital work of handling the individual contributions. When contributions required specialized knowledge beyond what the editors could supply, we were able to call upon the expert assistance of Zygmunt Abrahamowicz, Kevork Bardakjian, Joseph Fletcher, Richard N. Frye, Patricia K. Grimsted, Patricia Herlihy, Oleh Ilnytzkyj, Paulina Lewin, Ilse Lichten stadter, Albert B. Lord, Donald Ostrowski, Oksana Procyk, Maria Subtelny, and Şinasi Tekin. We are especially indebted to Margaret B. Ševčenko and to Victor Ostapchuk for editorial work, to Brenda Sens for secretarial help, and to Brenda Jubin for the exemplary accuracy with which she performed the complicated task of setting the manuscript into type. That these seventy contributors should be dealing with an area extending from the Nile to the Yenisei and with languages ranging from Chuvash to Chinese reflects the depth of his erudition, the breadth of his interests, and the scholarly vision that has enabled him to perceive large structures where others only perceive an endless accretion of disparate phenomena.
