Jaroslaw Pelenski[a] (Warsaw, 12 April 1929 – New York City, 20 February 2022[1][2]) was a Polish-born Ukrainian historian, political scientist and professor emeritus.
In 1957, he defended his PhD thesis[2] with distinction on Ukrainian national thought in the light of the works of Mykhailo Hrushevsky and Vyacheslav Lypynsky.
[citation needed] After receiving his master's degree, he moved to the United States in 1957,[2] where he was a lecturer in German language and literature at King's College in Wilkes-Barre in Pennsylvania from 1958 until 1961.
[citation needed] Pelenski was a member of the editorial board of the journal Kontinent , founded in 1974 and published by the Soviet dissident community in Paris (editor-in-chief Vladimir Maksimov).
[citation needed] In 1984–1987 Pelenski edited, together with Bohdan Osadchuk, the scholarly magazine-almanac Vidnova [uk] (Віднова, "Renewal", published in Munich) on current affairs in politics and culture of Ukrainian society; another member of the editorial board was Jerzy Giedroyc.
[citation needed] Pelenski published articles in the Vidnova (Віднова) almanac of Eastern European politics, science and culture (Philadelphia, USA), of which he was editor-in-chief: