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Carpatho-Rusyn
The Carpatho-Rusyn room: folklore, folk-Biblical legend, song, chant, dialect and ethnographic source texts of the Rusyn people of the Carpathians — Lemko, Boiko, Hutsul, Subcarpathian, and diaspora — from nineteenth- and early twentieth-century witnesses. Rusyn and Carpatho-Rusyn are one tradition and are shelved as one here.
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Texts
A Select Bibliography of Polish Press Writing on the Lemko Question — Susyn Y. MihalaskySusyn Y. Mihalasky's 1997 annotated bibliography of Polish-language press coverage of the Lemko question, surveying how Poland's newspapers and periodicals have written about the Lemko minority.About Pravda — Bogdan HorbalBogdan Horbal's 1994 Karpatska Rus' history of Pravda, the Carpatho-Rusyn newspaper founded in New York in 1902 by Viktor P. Hladyk and fellow activists.Baida (Vayda) — Yakiv HolovatskyA source-close English translation of the Baida / Vayda ballad from Yakiv Holovatsky's 1878 collection of songs from Galician and Hungarian Rus'. Translated from the old Ukrainian/Rusyn source witness; no first-English claim is made.Carpatho-Rusyn Chronology — Paul Robert Magocsi and the Carpatho-Rusyn Research CenterPaul Robert Magocsi and the Carpatho-Rusyn Research Center's chronology of Carpatho-Rusyn history from the 6th-7th century Slavic settlement of the Carpathians through the 1995 codification of the Rusyn literary language in Slovakia.Carpatho-Rusyn Reference and Bibliographic Studies — Bogdan HorbalSeventeen reference and bibliographic essays by Bogdan Horbal on Carpatho-Rusyn studies, gathered into one collected edition covering bibliography, archeology, church history, language and literature, chronology-adjacent history, and memoir literature.Carpatho-Rusyns — A Brochure Overview — Paul Robert MagocsiPaul Robert Magocsi's 1995 brochure overview of the Carpatho-Rusyn people for the Carpatho-Rusyn Research Center -- geography, history, language, religion, and identity in brief.Coats of Arms for Counties and Districts Where Rusyns Live — Michael RomanMichael Roman's 1997 compilation of the coats of arms of the counties and districts where Carpatho-Rusyns live.Confessor Bishops of the Greek Catholic Church — Byzantine Leaflet SeriesFour biographical leaflets from the Byzantine Seminary Press's Byzantine Leaflet Series, on the four Greek Catholic bishops of Subcarpathian Rus' and the Presov Region who suffered imprisonment, exile, or death under Soviet and Communist persecution: Theodore Romzha, Paul Gojdich, Basil Hopko, and Alexander Chira.Culture and Culture Evolution Among the Lemkos of Southeastern Poland in the 20th CenturyA 1995 historical and ethnographic monograph on the Lemko people of the Carpathian borderlands, tracing their history, their traditional culture, and the fate of that culture after their forced post-war deportation from southeastern Poland.Declaration of Common Aims of the Independent Mid-European NationsThe full text of the 1918 Philadelphia declaration in which Czecho-Slovaks, Poles, Yugoslavs, Ukrainians, Uhro-Rusyns, Lithuanians, Romanians, and other subject nations of Mid-Europe jointly proclaimed the principles of self-determination — the founding document behind the Carpatho-Rusyns' entry into Czechoslovakia as an autonomous unit.Ethno-national Orientation Among Lemkos in Poland — Susyn Yvonne MihalaskySusyn Yvonne Mihalasky's 1998 study of ethno-national orientation among Lemko Rusyns in Poland -- the contested pull between Rusyn, Ukrainian, and Polish self-identification -- published by the International Council for Central and East European Studies.Ethnopark at Bardejov' Spa — Martin MessaMartin Messa's article on the open-air ethnographic park (skansen) at Bardejovské Kúpele spa in Slovakia, presenting traditional Rusyn and Slovak folk architecture.Fifth Anniversary of the Lemko Association — translated by Susyn Y. MihalaskySusyn Y. Mihalasky's English translation of remarks published by the Lemko Association (Stovarysynja Lemkiv) of Legnica, Poland, on the occasion of its fifth anniversary in 1994.Folk Art of Subcarpathian Rus' — Ostapchuk, Makovskyi, and SichynskyA 1957 study of the traditional folk art of Subcarpathian Rus' -- wood carving, embroidery and weaving, painted ceramics, and traditional costume -- compiled from Stepan Makovskyi's 1925 fieldwork by Phillip Ostapchuk, with a foreword by Volodymyr Sichynsky.Folk Customs of Carpatho-Rusyns — Mykola MusynkaMykola Musynka's complete nine-part series on Carpatho-Rusyn folk customs, written for Carpatho-Rusyn American between 1983 and 1986 -- the festival calendar from Christmas through the autumn harvest, and the life-cycle rites of birth, marriage, and death.Folk Instruments of Carpatho-Rusyns — Viktor SostakThree essays by Viktor Sostak, curator at the Uzhhorod Historical Museum, on traditional Carpatho-Rusyn folk instruments: the sopilka, the trembita, and the cymbaly.Four Rusyn Folk Tales — collected and translated by Elena BoudovskayaFour short Rusyn folk-belief narratives -- devils outwitted at Easter, a dead husband's nightly visits, a changeling wind-woman, and a husband who turns into a wolf -- collected and translated by Elena Boudovskaya.How to Find Your Roots — interview by Susyn Y. MihalaskyA 1995 Carpatho-Rusyn American interview, conducted by Susyn Y. Mihalasky, with a genealogist on tracing Carpatho-Rusyn family history and immigrant ancestry.Hutsul Carpentry — Włodzimierz SzuchiewiczA brief 1902 Polish ethnographic source section on Hutsul carpentry, naming objects made by carpenters, tools used, and the burning of decorative patterns. Translated from Włodzimierz Szuchiewicz's Huculszczyzna, with Hutsul/Rusyn craft terms retained.Hutsul Foods — Włodzimierz SzuchiewiczA source-close English translation of Włodzimierz Szuchiewicz's 1902 section on Hutsul foods from Huculszczyzna, Vol. I. Translated from the Polish source witness with embedded Hutsul/Rusyn terms preserved where needed.Hutsul Spoon-Making — Włodzimierz SzuchiewiczA short 1902 Polish ethnographic source section on Hutsul wooden spoon-making, including woods, tools, process, villages known for the craft, output, and market routes. Translated from Włodzimierz Szuchiewicz's Huculszczyzna, with Hutsul/Rusyn craft terms retained.Hutsul Trough-Making — Włodzimierz SzuchiewiczA short 1902 Polish ethnographic source section on Hutsul trough-making, including wood choice, tool sequence, the tesłycia, and prices. Translated from Włodzimierz Szuchiewicz's Huculszczyzna, with Hutsul/Rusyn craft terms retained.Icon Painting in the Lemko Region — Hryhoryj LohvynHryhoryj Lohvyn's 1987 two-part study of icon painting in the Lemko Region, from fifteenth-century murals through the distinctive Lemko iconographic tradition.Istoria Lemkovyny — Father Jan PolanskySixteen surviving sections of Fr. Jan Polansky's Lemko-language history Istoria Lemkovyny (1969), in Walter Maksimovich's English translation as hosted at lemko.org — an incomplete manuscript covering Lemko nationality, language, religion, and folk custom, the Habsburg-era agrarian and national oppression of Galician Rusyns, and the region's fate through the Battle of Gorlice and interwar partition among Poland, Czechoslovakia, and Hungary.Lemko Genealogy — Case Studies — Thomas A. PetersThomas A. Peters's 1996 genealogy lecture handout on Lemko family-history research, presenting case studies and warning of common procedural pitfalls.Lemko Material Culture — Architecture and DressThree 1987 Carpatho-Rusyn American essays on Lemko material culture -- traditional domestic architecture by Archyp Danyljuk, women's garments by Tasia Hontar, and traditional women's clothing by Ivan Krasovs'kyj.Lemko-Rusyns — The Kurds of Central Europe — Petro TrochanovskijPetro Trochanovskij's 1992 essay comparing the Lemko Rusyns' dispersal and contested identity to the Kurdish situation, published in Carpatho-Rusyn American.Lemkos in Poland Surveyed — Susyn Yvonne MihalaskySusyn Yvonne Mihalasky's 1994 report on a survey of Lemko identity and opinion conducted among the Lemko population of Poland, published in Karpatska Rus'.Lemkos View Poland and Poles — Susyn Y. MihalaskySusyn Y. Mihalasky's 1997 Nationalities Papers study of how Lemko Rusyns in Poland perceive Polish society and their Polish neighbors, based on original survey research.Lot and His Wife — Volodymyr HnatiukA short Carpatho-Rusyn / Hungarian Rus' legend about Christ, Peter, Lot, and Lot's wife, recorded by Volodymyr Hnatiuk in 1896 and published in 1897. Translated from the older Ukrainian/Rusyn source text.Martyr for the Faith of the Fathers — Father Maksym SandovychA 1994 account, published in Alive In Christ, of the life, 1914 execution, and 1994 canonization of Father Maksym Sandovych, an Orthodox priest martyred by Austro-Hungarian authorities in the Talerhof internment operation.More Osturna and Malý Lipník Village NotesTwo further Osturna village notes -- a 1935 Wierchy article on Osturnja translated by Andrew Huzinec, and a group discussion on the meanings of Osturna surnames -- plus the 1858 surname and house-number records of the nearby village of Maly Lipnik.Noah — Volodymyr HnatiukA Carpatho-Rusyn / Hungarian Rus' folk-Biblical legend about Noah, the ark, palynka, the raven and dove, and Noah's sons, recorded by Volodymyr Hnatiuk in 1896 and published in 1897. Translated from the older Ukrainian/Rusyn source text.On the Beginning of the World and the First People — Volodymyr HnatiukA Carpatho-Rusyn / Hungarian Rus' folk-Biblical legend about creation, Adam and Eve, Adam's head, Golgotha, and Christ's blood, recorded by Volodymyr Hnatiuk in 1896 and published in 1897. Translated from the older Ukrainian/Rusyn source text.Osturna — A Rusyn Village and Its American DiasporaA village profile of Osturna, Slovakia, paired with oral-history testimony from its emigrants' ocean crossing to America and a travelogue of the 1996 reunion that brought thirty-six American descendants back to their ancestral village.Our Slavic Heritage — Fr. Athanasius Pekar, OSBMFr. Athanasius Pekar, OSBM's 1969 series Our Slavic Heritage, written for the 1100th anniversary of St. Cyril's death -- Slavic origins, the Slavic Apostles Cyril and Methodius, the Slavic liturgical language and rite, and Cyrillo-Methodian ideals among the Carpatho-Rusyns. Chapter 7, on the Slavic Bible, is missing from the source and disclosed here as an honest gap.Preserving Your Family History and Our Rusyn Genealogy — Albert R. GordonDr. Albert R. Gordon's 1991 guide to preserving family history and researching Rusyn genealogy, from the journal Trembita.Rusyn Customs and Traditions — Michael RomanTen short pieces on Carpatho-Rusyn customs and folk life by Michael Roman, GCU Honorary Editor, and the GCU Messenger -- Christmas, Highland Christmas, Mardi Gras, Pysanky and Easter baskets, birth and baptism, marriage (two parts), burial, trial by ordeal, and the life of Carpatho-Rusyn coal miners in America.Six Lemko Lives — Olena Duc and Bogdan HorbalSix biographical sketches of notable figures in Lemko cultural and religious life -- the priest-scholar Volodymyr Chyljak, the primitivist painter Nykyfor Drovnjak, the poet Ivan Rusenko, the community leader Viktor Hladyk, the activist Jaroslav Kaczmarczyk, and the educator Metodyj Trochanovskij -- by Olena Duc and Bogdan Horbal.Sodom and Gomorrah — Volodymyr HnatiukA long Carpatho-Rusyn / Hungarian Rus' folk-Biblical legend about Sodom and Gomorrah, Lot, famine, imprisonment, divine judgment, and the salt-stone origin motif, recorded by Volodymyr Hnatiuk in 1896 and published in 1897. Translated from the older Ukrainian/Rusyn source text.Solomon Judges the Beggars — Volodymyr HnatiukA short Carpatho-Rusyn / Hungarian Rus' judgment tale about King Solomon, two poor men, a mare, a cart, and a disputed foal, recorded by Volodymyr Hnatiuk in 1896 and published in 1897. Translated from the older Ukrainian/Rusyn source text.The Battle of Saint Michael with Lucifer — Volodymyr HnatiukA Carpatho-Rusyn / Hungarian Rus' Christian apocryphal legend about Saint Michael, Lucifer, the heavenly vestments, the Black Sea, and the fall of Lucifer's angels, recorded by Volodymyr Hnatiuk in 1895 and published in 1897. Translated from the older Ukrainian/Rusyn source text.The Carpatho-Rusyn Wedding — Jerry JumbaJerry Jumba's 1978 account of the traditional Carpatho-Rusyn wedding -- matchmaking, the blessing of the bride and groom, the wedding procession, and the customs of the wedding feast -- written for Carpatho-Rusyn American.The Carpatho-Rusyns — Paul Robert MagocsiPaul Robert Magocsi's complete five-part introductory survey of Carpatho-Rusyn life -- geography and religion, language and culture, early history, serfdom through World War I, and the interwar period through the post-1989 national revival.The Culture of a Quiet People — Ireneusz KrzysztofIreneusz Krzysztof's 1992 introduction to Lemko history, culture, and the contemporary Lemko situation in Poland, written for a general Polish readership and reprinted in Karpatska Rus' in 1994.The Flooded Villages of the Starina AreaThree first-person essays from the 2006 documentary project Rusyns - Lost Homes: a local history of the seven Rusyn villages of upper Cirocha, Slovakia, drowned by the Starina reservoir between 1975 and 1986, and two photographers' meditations on memory, displacement, and Rusyn identity among their evacuated families.The Lemko Museum in Zyndranowa — Antoni KrohAntoni Kroh's 1987 two-part account of the Lemko Museum in Zyndranowa, Poland, founded by Teodor Gocz to preserve Lemko material culture after the 1947 deportations.The Lemko Rusyn Republic (1918-1920) — Paul Robert MagocsiPaul Robert Magocsi's 1993 scholarly study of the Lemko Rusyn Republic (1918-1920), the little-known but longest-lived of the ephemeral post-World War I 'republics,' and what its debates over political orientation reveal about Rusyn and Ukrainian national thought in the former Austrian Galicia.The Lemko Rusyns — Their Past and Present — Paul Robert MagocsiPaul Robert Magocsi's two-part 1987 introduction to the Lemko Rusyns of the Carpathians' northern slope -- their geography, early history under Austrian and Polish rule, the world wars, the 1947 forced deportation from their homeland, and the community's dispersal and cultural revival since.The Story of TalerhofA 1994 Karpatska Rus' account, reprinted from the Orthodox Herald, of the Talerhof internment camp where Austro-Hungarian authorities interned and killed thousands of Carpatho-Rusyns suspected of Russophile sympathies during the First World War.The Subcarpathian Ruthenians — Exodus to a Promised Land — Robert HospodarRev. Robert Hospodar's account of Subcarpathian Ruthenian emigration to America -- 'Exodus to a Promised Land' -- published in a GCU Yearbook.The Tragic Tale of Sub-Carpathian RutheniaA concise account, drawn from Library of Congress manuscript holdings, of the Uhro-Rusyns' 1918-1919 bid for self-determination, Gregory Zatkovich's negotiations with Woodrow Wilson and the Paris Peace Conference, and the short-lived autonomous province of Sub-Carpathian Ruthenia — ending in its illegal 1945 cession to the Soviet Union. Includes the full treaty text guaranteeing its autonomy.Ujak, Udol, and Its Emigrants to PassaicA contributor's history of the Rusyn village of Ujak (renamed Udol in 1948) in Slovakia's former Saros county, its emigration to Passaic and Garfield, New Jersey from 1880 onward, and the founding of St. Michael's Greek Catholic Church and St. Peter's Greek Catholic Cemetery there, with a surname list from the village's parish records.Wondrous News From LitmanovaA chronicle, in the girls' own reported words, of the reported Marian apparitions to two teenagers, Ivetka Korcakova and Katka Ceselkova, on a mountainside above the Rusyn Greek Catholic village of Litmanova, Slovakia, from August 1990 through the reported final apparition of August 1995.Байковый Сьвіт Миколая Буряка — Mykola BuriakForty-four Lemko-Rusyn fables, folk songs, village histories, and wartime memoirs collected by Mykola Buriak of Smerechne, published by the Zyndranowa Museum of Lemko Culture in 2011 — the original Lemko-Rusyn dialect text, on greed and poverty, wolves and shepherds, priests and Gypsies, the vanished villages of Smerechne and Vilshnia, and the deportations of the Second World War and Operation Vistula.До 70-річчя Депортації — Марія ГорбальA short 2016 historical essay and commemorative program note on the 1944-47 deportations of the Lemko people, prepared by Maria Horbal for the L'viv Regional Festival "Homin Lemkivshchyny" marking the 70th anniversary of the deportations — the 1944 Soviet-Polish population exchange, deportation to Soviet Ukraine, and the 1947 Operation Vistula. The original Ukrainian text.Лабова — Лемківське Село Нашої Пам'ятіA 2006 village history and memoir of Labova, a Lemko village in the Nowy Sacz district of Poland, by three of its former residents — Lev Monchak, Ivanna Polyniak, and Nadiia Yuskiv — covering the village's geography and people, the First and Second World Wars, deportation and Operation Vistula, and the community's postwar life in Ukraine, with memorial appendices naming villagers imprisoned, conscripted, or deported. The original Ukrainian text, published by the Lemkivshchyna Research Foundation.Лемківська Доля — Ihor DidovychA 2013 poetry and memoir collection by Ihor Didovych, a Lemko deported as an infant in Operation Vistula, on his family's exile from the village of Bilcareva and the postwar life, faith, and homesickness of Lviv's Lemko diaspora — the original Ukrainian and Lemko-dialect text, with a closing memoir contributed by his sister, Olha Illiash.Лемківські Вечірки — Марія ГорбальA 2019 ethnographic study by Maria Horbal (Institute of Ethnology, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine) of the Lemko wintertime spinning-bee gathering — vechirky, vechyrky, vechurky, or priadky — held through the pre-Christmas Advent fast, with the legends, ballads, religious songs, proverbs, nonsense verse, jokes, and games recorded as part of it. The original Ukrainian text.Різдвяна Яличка — Maria HorbalSixteen Lemko Christmas legends and tales, collected and introduced by folklorist Maria Horbal for the Institute of Ethnology of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine (Lviv, 2009) — the original Ukrainian text, on the birth of Christ, the golden spider's web, talking animals on Christmas Eve, and other legends explaining Lemko Christmas customs.Свята у грудні на Лемківщині — Maria HorbalA 2024 peer-reviewed ethnographic article by Maria Horbal (Institute of Ethnology, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine) on the December religious calendar of Lemkivshchyna — Introduction, St. Catherine, Andrew the First-Called, Barbara, Nicholas, and the polaznyk first-footing custom — documented from named elderly informants recorded 2004-2015. The original Ukrainian text, with the journal's own published English abstract.Селисько — Марія ГорбальA 2023 historical-ethnographic monograph on Selysko, a village in Lviv Oblast, Ukraine, by ethnologist Maria Horbal (Institute of Ethnology, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine) — population and settlement history, religious and civic life, everyday material culture, the 1944 Tarasovo massacre, the Soviet and German occupations and the 1941-42 and 1947 famines, the UPA insurgency, and a 1940-41/1950 property census, based on archival documents and interviews with village elders. The original Ukrainian text.Традиційні Лемківські Страви — Тереза КищакA 2015 collection of traditional Lemko peasant recipes from the village of Rostajne in central Lemkivshchyna, by Teresa Kyshchak — soups, dumplings, cabbage and potato dishes, milk dishes, meat and mushroom dishes, and Easter and Christmas Eve fare, with the author's own household measurement guide and kitchen tips. The original Ukrainian text.