newspaper
A newspaper is a periodical publication containing written information about current events and is often typed in black ink with a white or gray background.
Newspapers can cover a wide variety of fields such as politics, business, sports a ...
and the most widely read in the Western world.
Encyclopedia of Ukraine
The ''Encyclopedia of Ukraine'' ( uk, Енциклопедія українознавства, translit=Entsyklopediia ukrainoznavstva), published from 1984 to 2001, is a fundamental work of Ukrainian Studies.
Development
The work was creat ...
, Volume 5 , Volodymyr Kubiĭovych, Danylo Husar Struk (eds.), University of Toronto Press, 1993, p.128
Chronicling America
''Chronicling America'' is an open access, open source newspaper database and companion website. It is produced by the United States National Digital Newspaper Program (NDNP), a partnership between the Library of Congress and the National Endowme ...
- The Library of Congress on 11 September 1893 by Father Hryhorii Hrushka. On February 22, 1894, the
Ukrainian National Association
The Ukrainian National Association (UNA) ( uk, Український народний союз), known before 1914 as the Ruthenian National Union ( uk, Руський Народний Союз), is a North American fraternal organization founde ...
(UNA) adopted the newspaper as its organ. It became a bi-weekly newspaper on 1 March 1894, a tri-weekly on 8 August 1914, and a daily on 3 January 1921. ''Svoboda'' served as a ' mouthpiece" for Ukrainians in North America, and played an important role in the discussing and solving of
immigrant
Immigration is the international movement of people to a destination country of which they are not natives or where they do not possess citizenship in order to settle as permanent residents or naturalized citizens. Commuters, tourists, and ...
difficulties. Prior to the establishment of Ukrainian-Canadian periodicals (such as the ''Kanadiiskyi Farmer''), it was the only Ukrainian-language newspaper of any note in CanadaJaroslav Petryshyn, Luba Dzubak, ''Peasants in the Promised Land: Canada and the Ukrainians, 1891-1914'' James Lorimer & Company, 1985 pp.46, 87-88 but was banned by the country during
World War II
World War II or the Second World War, often abbreviated as WWII or WW2, was a world war that lasted from 1939 to 1945. It involved the vast majority of the world's countries—including all of the great powers—forming two opposin ...
for its pro-Nazi sympathies.
Outside of North America, Ukrainians in
Brazil
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Bukovina
Bukovinagerman: Bukowina or ; hu, Bukovina; pl, Bukowina; ro, Bucovina; uk, Буковина, ; see also other languages. is a historical region, variously described as part of either Central or Eastern Europe (or both).Klaus Peter BergerT ...
also subscribed to it. It provided a channel of communication for those of the intelligentsia concerned with emigration of Ukrainian
peasant
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s and life in the
New World
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; they used the paper to guide them into improved lifestyles and conformance to the ideals of European civilization. Through a program of enlightenment, ''Svoboda'' promoted the establishment of Ukrainian schools as well as the learning of Ukrainian language and history.
Its peak circulation was approximately 18,000.