Treading Paths
Treading Paths

Author: Helena Duć-Fajfer

Publisher: V&R Unipress

Published: 2024-03-11

Total Pages: 535

ISBN-13: 3847016636

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The monograph is a presentation of the writings of the stateless people called Lemkos-Rusyns, from the earliest awareness of their own cultural and ethnic separateness until World War I. It contains information about the group and its culture, defines the concept of Lemko literature as a minority literature and describes the cultural situation of Lemkos in the 19th century. Ten chapters present the main genres and types of Lemko literature in the years 1848-1918. Literature is shown as one of the key cultural and identity discourses. Extensively quoted excerpts from texts reveal the linguistic reality and consciousness of the Lemko intelligentsia of the time. The monograph also outlines the developmental tendencies of Lemko literature over the successive stages of this community's history.

What I Left for You
What I Left for You

Author: Liz Tolsma

Publisher: Barbour Publishing

Published: 2024-12-01

Total Pages: 404

ISBN-13:

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A Family’s Ties Were Broken in Poland of 1939 1939 Helena Kostyszak is an oddity—an educated female ethnic minority lecturing at a university in Krakow at the outbreak of WWII. When the Germans close the university and force Jews into the ghetto, she spirits out a friend’s infant daughter and flees to her small village in the southern hills. Helena does everything in her power to protect her family, but it may not be enough. It will take all of her strength and God’s intervention for both of them to survive the war and the ethnic cleansing to come. 2023 Recently unengaged social worker McKenna Muir is dealt an awful blow when a two-year-old she’s been working with is murdered. It’s all too much to take, so her friend suggests she dive into her family’s past like she’s always wanted. Putting distance between herself and her problems might help her heal, so she and her friend head on Sabbatical to Poland. But what McKenna discovers about her family shocks everyone, including one long-lost family member. Also in the Echoes of the Past Series: What I Would Tell You What I Promise You

Lemkovyna
Lemkovyna

Author: Ioann Polianskii

Publisher: Carpathian Institute

Published: 2012

Total Pages: 570

ISBN-13: 9781938292002

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Original Lemko edition published: Istoriia Lemkovyny / I. F. Lemkyn. 'IUnkers, N.I.: The Lemko Association of USA and Canada, 1969. This translation contains additional new material, mostly contained in appendices.

All Shall Be Well; And All Shall Be Well; And All Manner of Things Shall Be Well
All Shall Be Well; And All Shall Be Well; And All Manner of Things Shall Be Well

Author: Tod Wodicka

Publisher: Vintage

Published: 2008-01-29

Total Pages: 274

ISBN-13: 0307377172

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Meet Burt Hecker: he's a mead-addicted medieval re-enactor from upstate New York who prefers oat gruel to French fries—because potatoes were unavailable in Europe before 1200 A.D.—and is mourning the death of his wife. After an incident involving the police and an illegally borrowed car, Burt is forced to join a local music therapy workshop to manage his anger. With this group, he travels to Germany for a music festival. His real goal, however, is to get to Prague, where his estranged son has been living. Armed with what he thinks is a historically accurate understanding of how to fix the past, Burt sets out on a journey that will change his future.

Into the Carpathians
Into the Carpathians

Author: Alan E. Sparks

Publisher: Rainy Day Publishing

Published: 2020-08-18

Total Pages: 511

ISBN-13: 0578705729

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Finalist, 2021 Next Generation Indie Book Awards: Travel and Regional Non-Fiction categories. The journey continues in Part 2 of Into the Carpathians: an engaging and informative chronicle of a hiking and wildlife research expedition along the Carpathian and Sudety Mountains, from Romania to Germany, some 800 miles as the crow flies. Still on the trail of wolves, we now explore the enchanting mountain landscapes of Slovakia, Poland, and the Czech Republic, where encounters with wolves, bears, and lynx; lumberjacks, shepherds, and outlaws; poets, tyrants, and saints; nomads, nobles, and knights; sprites, spirits, and witches—and such ancient peoples as Neanderthals, Celts, and Quadi; and such imposing historical figures as Marcus Aurelius of the Roman Empire, Svatopluk I of Great Moravia, Stephen I of the Kingdom of Hungary, Bolesław the Brave of the Kingdom of Poland, and Jan Sobieski of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth—provide broad insight into the natural, historical, and mythological forces that have shaped, and continue to shape, the nations, cultures, and psyches along the way. 72 beautiful color photographs also emblaze this memorable trek.

Cultural Heritage—Possibilities for Land-Centered Societal Development
Cultural Heritage—Possibilities for Land-Centered Societal Development

Author: Józef Hernik

Publisher: Springer Nature

Published: 2021-12-08

Total Pages: 394

ISBN-13: 303058092X

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This book includes multi-national research studies (social and natural science research, as well as more directly practical university-based knowledge) about cultural heritage, land, and societal development in varied countries. The book is particularly about land use (as a fundamental aspect of the environment) and its role in development (especially sustainable development). Many of the studies are about topics concerning the transition from more rural to more urbanized land areas. However, some studies concern other types of changes. This includes general attention to globalization and nation-state dimensions of change. Nonetheless, there are interpretations communicated of unique histories at differing scales in the researches here. There is often a focus on more uniquely local and regional territories (including attention to smaller-scale land use) and an interest in future possibilities that conserve positive features of past terrain.

With Their Backs to the Mountains
With Their Backs to the Mountains

Author: Paul Robert Magocsi

Publisher: Central European University Press

Published: 2015-11-30

Total Pages: 565

ISBN-13: 6155053464

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With Their Backs to the Mountains is the history of a stateless people, the Carpatho-Rusyns, and their historic homeland, Carpathian Rus?, located in the heart of central Europe. ÿA little over 100,000 Carpatho-Rusyns are registered in official censuses but their number could be as high as 1,000,000, the greater part living in Ukraine and Slovakia. The majority of the diaspora?nearly 600,000?lives in the US. At present, when it is fashionable to speak of nationalities as ?imagined communities? created by intellectuals or elites who may or may not live in the historic homeland, Carpatho-Rusyns provide an ideal example of a people made?or some would say still being made?before our very eyes. The book traces the evolution of Carpathian Rus? from earliest prehistoric times to the present, and the complex manner in which a distinct Carpatho-Rusyn people, since the mid-nineteenth century, came into being, disappeared, and then re-appeared in the wake of the revolutions of 1989 and the collapse of Communist rule in central and eastern Europe. To help guide the reader further there are 39 text inserts, 34 detailed maps, plus an annotated discussion of relevant books, chapters, and journal articles. ÿ

Property in East Central Europe
Property in East Central Europe

Author: Hannes Siegrist

Publisher: Berghahn Books

Published: 2014-11-01

Total Pages: 341

ISBN-13: 1782384626

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Property is a complex phenomenon comprising cultural, social, and legal rules. During the twentieth century, property rights in land suffered massive interference in Central and Eastern Europe. The promise of universal and formally equal rights of land ownership, ensuring predictability of social processes and individual autonomy, was largely not fulfilled. The national appropriation of property in the interwar period and the communist era represent an onerous legacy for the postcommunist (re)construction of a liberal-individualist property regime. However, as the scholars in this collection show, after the demise of communism in Eastern Europe property is again a major factor in shaping individual identity and in providing the political order and culture with a foundational institution. This volume analyzes both historical and contemporary forms of land ownership in Poland, Romania, and Yugoslavia in a multidisciplinary framework including economic history, legal and political studies, and social anthropology.

The Carpatho-Rusyn Americans
The Carpatho-Rusyn Americans

Author: Paul R. Magocsi

Publisher: Chelsea House Publications

Published: 1989

Total Pages: 120

ISBN-13:

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Discusses the history, culture, and religion of the Carpatho-Rusyns, factors encouraging their emigration to North America, and their acceptance as an ethnic group there.

Scattered
Scattered

Author: Diana Howansky Reilly

Publisher: University of Wisconsin Pres

Published: 2013-06-14

Total Pages: 192

ISBN-13: 0299293432

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In this book the author uses true accounts of her family's history to discuss the treatment of Ukranian citizens of Poland after World War II and the political upheaval and relocation which occurred to them.