Fenomen Ołeksandra Koszyca w ujęciu warszawskiej ukrainistki: Ołeksandr Koszyc i jego dziennik „Z pieśnią przez świat”, red. Walentyna Sobol, Wydawnictwa Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego, Warszawa 2018, 394 ss.

In the review article, the author writes about Walentyna Sobol’s book Oleksandr Kositz and his diary “With a song around the world”. Prof. Sobol prepared a Polish edition of Oleksandr Kositz’s diary, published for the first time in Canada in the 1950s and then in the 1970s after the death of this composer, writer, and ethnographer, providing it with an introduction, comprehensive footnotes, an extensive bibliography, and an unknown iconographic material – she has, therefore, carried out work far exceeding the scope of the duties of a scientific editor, which is the role she is performing here. This pioneering, in our country, publication, which will surely interest researchers in culture studies, musicologists, literary scholars, as well as ordinary readers who like to listen to Ukrainian songs, was preceded by a research stay in the archives of Oleksandr and Tetiana Kositz at the Ukrainian Cultural and Educational Centere in Winnipeg (Canada), where Oleksandr Kositz (1875–1944) spent the last years of his life and Professor Sobol – in 2015 – several months of her scientific internship.