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Book The Lemkos of Poland

Download or read book The Lemkos of Poland written by Paul Joseph Best and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Lemko Region in the Second Polish Republic

Download or read book The Lemko Region in the Second Polish Republic written by Jarosław Moklak and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book shows the mechanisms of the functioning of the competing Lemko political orientations in Poland between 1918 and 1939: Old Rusyns, Moscophiles and National Movement Activists. It discusses the connections of the Greek Catholic and Orthodox Churches with the political, cultural, educational and economic life of the Lemko Region, as well as the ethnic policy of Polish governments towards Lemkos.

Book Scattered

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  • Author : Diana Howansky Reilly
  • Publisher : University of Wisconsin Pres
  • Release : 2013-06-14
  • ISBN : 0299293432
  • Pages : 192 pages

Download or read book Scattered written by Diana Howansky Reilly and published by University of Wisconsin Pres. This book was released on 2013-06-14 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Book The Lemkos

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  • Author : Paul Joseph Best
  • Publisher : Carpathian Institute
  • Release : 2013-05-04
  • ISBN : 9781938292033
  • Pages : pages

Download or read book The Lemkos written by Paul Joseph Best and published by Carpathian Institute. This book was released on 2013-05-04 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book deals with the Lemkos, the East Slavic population which formerly inhabited the Southeast corner of today's Poland. The Lemkos massively immigrated to North America before 1914. Those who remained and survived the huge battles on the Carpathian Front in World War One settled in to rebuild their lives between the wars, but World War II and its aftermath were great blows to the Lemko people. Nearly all were either deported to the Soviet Ukraine (1944-1946) or forcibly resettled in Northern and Western Poland (1947-1951) in a thorough ethnic cleansing of the Carpathian Mountain region. Today, both in North America and in Europe, Lemkos are attempting to recover their heritage. It is hoped that this book will in some small way assist in that endeavor.

Book The Carpathians

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  • Author : Patrice M. Dabrowski
  • Publisher : Cornell University Press
  • Release : 2021-10-15
  • ISBN : 150175968X
  • Pages : 359 pages

Download or read book The Carpathians written by Patrice M. Dabrowski and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2021-10-15 with total page 359 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Carpathians, Patrice M. Dabrowski narrates how three highland ranges of the mountain system found in present-day Poland, Slovakia, and Ukraine were discovered for a broader regional public. This is a story of how the Tatras, Eastern Carpathians, and Bieszczady Mountains went from being terra incognita to becoming the popular tourist destinations they are today. It is a story of the encounter of Polish and Ukrainian lowlanders with the wild, sublime highlands and with the indigenous highlanders—Górale, Hutsuls, Boikos, and Lemkos—and how these peoples were incorporated into a national narrative as the territories were transformed into a native/national landscape. The set of microhistories in this book occur from about 1860 to 1980, a time in which nations and states concerned themselves with the "frontier at the edge." Discoverers not only became enthralled with what were perceived as their own highlands but also availed themselves of the mountains as places to work out answers to the burning questions of the day. Each discovery led to a surge in mountain tourism and interest in the mountains and their indigenous highlanders. Although these mountains, essentially a continuation of the Alps, are Central and Eastern Europe's most prominent physical feature, politically they are peripheral. The Carpathians is the first book to deal with the northern slopes in such a way, showing how these discoveries had a direct impact on the various nation-building, state-building, and modernization projects. Dabrowski's history incorporates a unique blend of environmental history, borderlands studies, and the history of tourism and leisure.

Book With Their Backs to the Mountains

Download or read book With Their Backs to the Mountains written by Paul Robert Magocsi and published by Central European University Press. This book was released on 2015-11-30 with total page 565 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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

Book Lemkovyna

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  • Author : Ioann Polianskii
  • Publisher : Carpathian Institute
  • Release : 2012
  • ISBN : 9781938292002
  • Pages : 570 pages

Download or read book Lemkovyna written by Ioann Polianskii and published by Carpathian Institute. This book was released on 2012 with total page 570 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Book Hierarchy and Pluralism

Download or read book Hierarchy and Pluralism written by A. Pasieka and published by Springer. This book was released on 2015-03-18 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is the place of pluralism in the context of a dominant religion? How does the perception of religion as “tradition” and “culture” affect pluralism? Why do minorities’ demands for recognition often transform into exclusion? Through her ethnography of a multireligious community in rural Poland, Agnieszka Pasieka demonstrates how we can better understand the nature of pluralism by examining how it is lived and experienced within a homogenous society. Painting a vivid picture of everyday interreligious sociability, Pasieka reveals the constant balance of rural inhabitants between ideas of sameness and difference, and the manifold ways in which religion informs local cooperation, relations among neighbors and friends, and common attempts to “make pluralism.” The book traces these developments through several decades of the community’s history, unveiling and exposing the paradoxes inscribed into the practice and discourse of pluralism and complex processes of negotiation of social identities.

Book Lost in a Homeland

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  • Author : Ann Bowyer
  • Publisher : CreateSpace
  • Release : 2015-06-23
  • ISBN : 9781514132227
  • Pages : 360 pages

Download or read book Lost in a Homeland written by Ann Bowyer and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2015-06-23 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Lost in a Homeland' is a sequel to 'A Token of Love' and recounts the difficulties Amy and George experience when they return to 1930's England, after their farming venture in the Canadian prairies. Set in leafy Buckinghamshire and the East End of London, the plight of those without work at a time of the Great Depression as well as the lifestyle of the wealthy is explored. George's search for employment as well as a family home is tough. Will these challenges be too much for their marriage to survive?

Book The Reconstruction of Nations

Download or read book The Reconstruction of Nations written by Timothy Snyder and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2004-07-11 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Yet he begins with the principles of toleration that prevailed in much of early modern eastern Europe and concludes with the peaceful resolution of national tensions in the region since 1989.".

Book Cultural Trauma

Download or read book Cultural Trauma written by Ron Eyerman and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2001-12-13 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book, Ron Eyerman explores the formation of the African-American identity through the theory of cultural trauma. The trauma in question is slavery, not as an institution or as personal experience, but as collective memory: a pervasive remembrance that grounded a people's sense of itself. Combining a broad narrative sweep with more detailed studies of important events and individuals, Eyerman reaches from Emancipation through the Harlem Renaissance, the Depression, the New Deal and the Second World War to the Civil Rights movement and beyond. He offers insights into the intellectual and generational conflicts of identity-formation which have a truly universal significance, as well as providing a compelling account of the birth of African-American identity. Anyone interested in questions of assimilation, multiculturalism and postcolonialism will find this book indispensable.

Book Minerals of the Carpathians

Download or read book Minerals of the Carpathians written by Gheorghe Udubașa and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Germans to Poles

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  • Author : Hugo Service
  • Publisher : Cambridge University Press
  • Release : 2013-07-11
  • ISBN : 1107671485
  • Pages : 389 pages

Download or read book Germans to Poles written by Hugo Service and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2013-07-11 with total page 389 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the ways Poland dealt with the territories and peoples it gained from Germany after the Second World War.

Book The Essential Poetry of Bohdan Ihor Antonych

Download or read book The Essential Poetry of Bohdan Ihor Antonych written by Bohdan-Ihor Antonych and published by Bucknell University Press. This book was released on 2010 with total page 181 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The essential Poetry of Bohdan Ihor Antonych: Estasies and Elegies includes ninety-one of the best works of this great Modernist Ukrainian poet, who was born in the Lemko region of Poland and who died in 1937 at the age of twenty-eight. It includes selections from A Greeting to Life (1931), The Grand Harmony (1932-33), Three Rings (1934), The Book of the Lion (1936), The Green Gospel (1938), and Rotations (1938), as well as poetry published outside of collections. Over half of the translations are appearing in English for the first time. Scholars have compared Antonych to Walt Whitman, Dylan Thomas, T.S. Eliot, Rainer Marie Rilke, and Federico Garcia Lorca. Michael M. Naydan is Woskob Family Professor of Ukrainian Studies at The Pennsylvanina State University. Lidia Stefania is Senior Researcher at the Polish Academy of Sciences.

Book Identity Strategies of Stateless Ethnic Minority Groups in Contemporary Poland

Download or read book Identity Strategies of Stateless Ethnic Minority Groups in Contemporary Poland written by Ewa Michna and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-04-29 with total page 191 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides a unique description of the identity strategies of stateless ethnic minorities in Poland. It describes and analyses the identity politics carried out by these groups, aimed at obtaining recognition of a separate status from the Polish state (a dominant group) in the symbolic and legal realms. On the one hand, comparative analysis of the activity undertaken by Lemkos, Polish Tatars, Roma, Kashubians, Karaims and Silesians will allow us to present the specifics of each of the communities, resulting from the special nature of their ethnicity. On the other hand, it will show some typical strategies for stateless groups in the field of identity and ethnicity. Critical factors here are processes such as building ethnic borders, dealing with a non-privileged position, striving to achieve recognition for the status quo of a particular identity or politicization of ethnicity. The subjects are mostly indigenous groups, and the lack of legitimacy of emancipation in their own nation-state can determine their status as an ‘in-between’ in the context of ethnic relations in Poland. In the analysis undertaken in the book of the activity of the ethnic groups there are three main contexts: intragroup, state policy and the global discourse of the rights of minorities. They determine the choice of identity strategy and adopted policy of identity. Not without significance is also the historical context, especially the political transformation in Poland after 1989, when Polish state policy towards ethnic minorities changed fundamentally - moving from the mono-national ideology of a socialist state to a pluralistic model of a democratic state. Gathering diverse examples in one volume will allow the reader to become familiar with the complex topic of ethnic relations in the world today, and especially in Central Europe, which is still in the process of change.

Book Encyclopedia of Ukraine

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  • Author : Danylo Husar Struk
  • Publisher : University of Toronto Press
  • Release : 1993-12-15
  • ISBN : 1442651261
  • Pages : 2597 pages

Download or read book Encyclopedia of Ukraine written by Danylo Husar Struk and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 1993-12-15 with total page 2597 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over thirty years in the making, the most comprehensive work in English on Ukraine is now complete: its history, people, geography, economy, and cultural heritage, both in Ukraine and in the diaspora.

Book Our People

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  • Author : Paul R. Magocsi
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1994
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 242 pages

Download or read book Our People written by Paul R. Magocsi and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: History and description of Ruthenians in North America. Includes a listing of Carpatho-Ruthenian villages based on the 1910 Hungarian census; villages now primarily in Slovakia, Ukraine, and Poland (with a few in Romania, Croatia, and Yugoslavia). Entries include the name of the village, the former Hungarian county or Galician district, the present country and administrative subdivision.