English

Alternative forms

• Ucrainica
• ukrainica

Noun

Ukrainica ‎(uncountable)

1. (Slavistics) Literature about Ukraine or Ukrainians, especially about Ukrainian culture, language, or literature.
   • 1944, The Ukrainian Quarterly, v 1, Ukrainian Congress Committee of America, p 89:

     Ukrainica in American Periodicals [section title]

   • 1957, Books Abroad, v 31, University of Oklahoma, p 439:

     Yaroslav Rudnyc’kyj, head of the Department of Slavic Studies at the University of Manitoba, came to the United States in mid-year of 1956 to make a study of the Ukrainian holdings at the Library of Congress and to organize an exhibit of rare Ukrainica in that institution.

   • 1978, James Howard Fraser ed., Society & Children's Literature, D.R. Godine, p 89:

     The central children's room of the New York Public Library has as well a sampling of that Ukrainica published in New York City.

   • 2001, David H. Stam ed., International Dictionary of Library Dictionaries, v 2, Taylor & Francis, p 593:

     The following specialized divisions were created: periodicals, Ukrainica, manuscripts, old printed books, Oriental, cartography, and ephemera (advertisements, placards).

See also

• Americana
• Australiana
• Baltica
• Canadiana
• Croatica
• Polonica
• Slavica
• Russica